A STOP-COCK FOR BARRELS AND OTHER VESSELS, WHICH PREVENTS THE WASTING OF LIQUOR
Year: 1800

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
GRYLLS, of the Borough of Launceston, in the County of Cornwall, Ironmonger,
now residing at Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, in and
by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of November, in the forty-first year of
His reign, for Himself, His heirs, and successors, did give and grant unto me,.
the said Thomas Grylls, His special licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that I, the said Thomas Grylls, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, by myself or themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants
or agents, or such others as I, the said Thomas Grylls, my executors, 'adminis-
trators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time, and at all times thereafter, during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A STOP-COCK
FOR BARRELS AND OTHER VESSELS, WHICH PREVENTS THE WASTING OF LIQUOR;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said
Thomas Grylls, in and by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be
inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, reference being thereto had, will more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Grylls, do describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, by the Plan thereof drawn in the
margin of these presents, and as follows, that is to say:
This cock keeps air or water tight by means of leather or cork fastened on
with a small screw to the end of the plug or. stopper, which screws against
the shoulder in the cock, immediately inside the emptying place, as in the
Drawing No. 1, in the margin of these presents. The plug or stopper works
or shuts to and fro by means of a screw, as in the Drawing No. 2, in the
margin of these presents. It empties or lets off the liquid at the bottom, as in
the Drawing No. 3 in the margin of these presents.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Grylls, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Tenth day of December, in the forty-first year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God,
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith,
and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred.
WHATELEY, a Mas
Extra. in Chancery
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Grylls came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and everything therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.