IMPROVED PORTABLE UTENSILS, SUCH AS BUCKETS, CANTEENS, BATHS, AND OTHER SIMILAR WATERPROOF ARTICLES FOR CONTAINING LIQUIDS; ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PORTABLE LIFE BOATS, BUOYS, OR LAND MARKS AND OTHER COMPRESSIBLE ARTICLES
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lewis James Paine, of Camberwell, and John Ryan,
of Hatcham, for the Invention of "IMPROVED PORTABLE UTENSILS, SUCH
AS BUCKETS, CANTEENS, BATHS, AND OTHER SIMILAR WATERPROOF ARTICLES
FOR CONTAINING LIQUIDS; ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PORTABLE LIFE BOATS, BUOYS,
OR LAND MARKS AND OTHER COMPRESSIBLE ARTICLES"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Lewis James Paine and
John Ryan at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 5th March 1855.
We, LEWIS JAMES PAINE, of Camberwell, and JOHN RYAN, of Hatcham, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED PORTABLE
UTENSILS, SUCH AS BUCKETS, CANTEENS, BATHS, AND OTHER SIMILAR WATERPROOF
ARTICLES FOR CONTAINING LIQUIDS; ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PORTABLE LIFE BOATS,
BUOYS, OR LAND MARKS, AND OTHER COMPRESSIBLE ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in forming vessels and other articles of india-
rubber or other suitable material, and making the same compressible and
self-distending or elongating by means of a spring or springs, or expanding
ribs, which also maintain the increased capacity, and at the same time renders
them capable of being closed or shut together when not in use for economising
space, or for convenience of portability.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Lewis James Paino and John Ryan in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 5th September 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, LEWIS
JAMES PAINE, of Camberwell, & JoHN RYAN, of Hatcham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Lewis James Paine & John Ryan, Her special licence that we, the said
Lewis James Paine & John Ryan, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Lewis James Paine & John Ryan, our
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 "IMPROVED PORTABLE UTENSILS,
SUCH AS BUCKETS, CANTEENS, BATHS, AND OTHER SIMILAR WATERPROOF ARTICLES FOR
CONTAINING LIQUIDS; ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PORTABLE LIFE BOATS, BUOYS, OR LAND
MARKS, & OTHER COMPRESSIBLE ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Lewis James Paine and John Ryan, by an instrument in
writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the samo 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 we, the said Lewis James Paine and John Ryan,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
Our Invention relates to compressible utensils, vessels, and articles, whether
open or closed, for containing or excluding liquids, or impervious thereto,
externally or internally, and consists in making the said vessels, utensils,
and articles as aforesaid, of india-rubber, leather, cloth, or other elastic or
non-elastic liquid-impervious material, self-supporting and self-adjusting, in
the form or shape required by a skeleton, spiral, or other spring or springs.
According to the shape or outline of utensil, vessel, or article required, we
construct a skeleton form or foundation thereof, by coiling spring wire,

page_text: tempered or untenspered, upon a suitable block or model, and having thus
obtained a skeletor or spiral foundation of the required form and dimension,
and adjusted it to the proper degree of expansion and contraction required,
(and coated the same, when required, with a suitable substance to prevent
corrosion or oxydation,) we proceed to line, cover, or encase the same with
the material or materials above mentioned, or embed the said skeleton
foundation therein.
We do not, however, confine ourselves to a spiral or springs in forming
the said compressible and self-distending skeleton forms or foundations, as
above described; nor do we confine ourselves to using metal springs, as the
said skeletons or foundations may be constructed by other compressible and
self-distending springs; and when the material used is of a suitable nature,
and capable of being formed into the vessel or article with an integral self-
distending spring (of the same material), we adopt that mode of construction.
We would therefore have it understood that we claim vessels, utensils, and
articles made compressible (so as to occupy a small space for portability or
otherwise), self-distending and supporting, as above described, or identical with
the principle of the said construction.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Ryan, for and on behalf of myself
and Lewis James Paine, have hereto set my hand and seal, this
Fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord 1855.
JOHN
(L.S.) RIAN.