THE APPLICATION OF CERTAIN METALS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF 'COALING,' 'SWILL, AND SIMILAR BASKETS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Morgan, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Brush Manufacturer, for the Invention of "THE APPLICATION
OF CERTAIN METALS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF 'COALING,' 'SWILL, AND
SIMILAR BASKETS."
Sealed the 28th June 1861, and dated 2nd January 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Morgan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
January 1861.
I, WALTER MORGAN, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Brush
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "THE
APPLICATION OF CERTAIN METALS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF 'COALING,' 'SWILL,"
AND SIMILAR BASKETS," to be as follows:-
The baskets known as "coaling" or "swill" baskets, generally used for
loading and unloading ships, for passing coals from one part to another, or to
the furnaces in steam ships, and for other purposes, I make or manufacture of
iron, cast, malleable, or "malleable cast," steel, copper, brass, zinc, and tin, and
of any of these metals combined, by which application I secure lightness,"
durability, reduction in cost, and complete prevention of the possibility of
damage by fire.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Walter Morgan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd July 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WALTER
MORGAN, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Brush Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Walter Morgan, Her special licence that I, the said Walter Morgan, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such other as I, the said Walter
Morgan, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "THE APPLICATION OF CERTAIN METALS
FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF COALING,' 'SWILL, AND SIMILAR BASKETS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Walter Morgan, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing-under-my, or-their,-or-one-of-their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed-in the Great Seal-Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Walter Morgan, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
(that is to say) :-
The baskets known as " coaling" or "swill baskets," generally used for
loading and unloading ships, for passing coals from one part to another, or to
the furnaces in steam ships, and for other purposes, I make or manufacture of
iron, cast, malleable, or malleable cast steel, copper, brass, zinc, and tin, and
of any of these metals combined, by which application I secure lightness,
durability, reduction in cost, and complete prevention of the possibility of
damage by fire.
That my Invention may be more clearly understood I have hereunto
attached a Sheet of Drawings illustrative of the construction, sizes, and pro-
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page_text: portions I prefer making my improved sheet-iron coaling baskets, when
galvanized; Fig. 1 being a side elevation, Fig. 2 an end elevation, and Fig. 3
a perspective view.
a represents the bottom as produced by stamping; b the sides formed of two
pieces made to overlap and clasp each other at the ends at c, and joined to the
bottom at d; in a similar manner e shews the edges bent over or around a
strengthening hoop or rod, on which the carrying handles f, made of wood,
glass, porcelain, metal, or a combination of any of these substances are free to
revolve; g strengthening bands, rivetted or otherwise fastened to the bottom
and sides.
Although I have herein described and shewn on the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings the construction, sizes, and proportions I prefer making galvan-
ized or plain sheet-iron baskets of, still I would have it distinctly understood
that I do not confine myself to any particular construction or size, as baskets
of the class herein named may be made in one piece, and in various other
ways; neither do I claim as new making all baskets of the metals before-
mentioned. But I claim as my Invention, the application of the metals
herein-before mentioned, singly or in combination, for the manufacture of
"coaling," "swill," and similar baskets, such similar baskets having reference
more particularly to the different names given to baskets of the same or nearly
the same shape in various parts of the country, all of which have the same
general outline as the one illustrated on the Sheet of Drawings herewith.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Morgan, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
JOHN T. KING.
WALTER MORGAN. (L.S.)