NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING POTTERY WARE
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
WATERS, of Fore Street, Lambeth, in the County of Surry, Potter, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourteenth day of June last, did, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Richard Waters, his especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Richard Waters,
my exors, admors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves,
or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said Richard Waters, my exors, adñors, 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 "NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING POTTERY WARE;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said
Richard Waters, by an instrument in writing under by hand and seal, parti-
cularly 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 Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Waters, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained as follows (that is to say) :-
The said new method or art of manufacturing pottery ware doth consist of
the following particulars:-
Firstly, in the fabrication of various articles, and more particularly such as
are of considerable magnitude, I do not give the clay its first form by the
process called throwing (or moulding the same by hand upon a revolving
table), but I do form the clay into sheets or extended flat masses, and I do
place and apply the said masses upon moulds of a cylindrical or other suitable
figure, adapted to give the first shape or figure of the intended article, and I
do when required or needful, complete and finish the said shape or figure by
beating or by pressure, or by turning while in a revolving state, and by these
means I do manufacture goods of a more even substance and better quality
than are aforeded by the common method.
Secondly, I do form delft ware pots and other articles by compression of the
clay between suitable moulds, which affords greater accuracy of size and pre-
cision of figure than heretofore.
Thirdly, I do mark or cloud the ware called Welsh ware by using a number
of pipes or tubes at once, instead of one pipe or tube, through which the color-
ing slip or material is made to flow, by which means the operation is better and
more speedily performed.
Fourthly, I do make of earthenware the jambs or pieces for chimneys, and
tiles for fronting or facing houses, or for paving, and hearths for fire-places, and
ballastrades for large bridges, balconies, and the like, and also bricks or pieces
for building, all severally veined, coloured, or variegated, either by the last-
mentioned process for Welsh ware, or by putting together masses of clay
differing from each other in the composition and nature, and in the admixture
of stony or metallic or other mineral substances, so as to differ in their colors
and appearance when baked, and kneading or working up the said masses so
put together until the whole mass shall be moderately but not too intimately
or minutely blended. And I do declare (as an instruction for this last-men-
tioned process of kneading or working) that if the said whole mass be not
sufficiently kneaded or worked, then the colours after baking will appear in
coarse lines, veins, or patches; and also, that if the kneading or working be
continued too long, the several colours will either be seen in minute and
indistinct marks or will be confused together. But that the proper degree of
working may be known, by baking a small proof or trial piece, by the appear-

page_text: ance of which, and from his knowledge of the qualities and quantities of the
several kinds of clay made use of at any time, the manufacturer will be enabled
without difficulty to produce that variegated body which shall or may be
most acceptable to the taste of his employers.
Fifthly, by the processes before described I do fabricate large figures, statues,
ornaments, armorial bearings, and the like, duly coloured and burnt in, as
aforesaid.
Sixthly, I do also in like manner as aforesaid make fine stone mortars and
pestles, and cisterns for various uses, and coffins for the dead, and spiral pipes
or worms for distillers' use, consisting of a spiral excavation made in a cylendar
and covered with an hollow spiral cover united to the same; and I do also
make tiles for covering roofs with an hook on the back instead of a knob or
button, in order that the same may be securely placed and suspended upon
any surface in every position or slope from the level or horizontal position into
the perpendicular, and I do make the said tiles with an higher edge and much
deeper return than usual, in order that the weather may be thereby more
effectually excluded.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth
Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirteenth day of August, in
the year of our Lord 1811, the aforesaid Richard Waters came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
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