IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CEMENT
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lonsdale Bradley, of Rotterdam, in the Kingdom
of Holland, but now residing at No. 5, Park Place, Regent's Park,
in the County of Middlesex, Cement Manufacturer, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CEMENT.”
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Sealed the 25th October 1872, and dated the 1st May 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Lonsdale Bradley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st May 1872.
I, LONSDALE BRADLEY, of Rotterdam, in the Kingdom of Holland,
but now residing at No. 5, Park Place, Regent's Park, in the County of
Middlesex, Cement Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CEMENT," to
be as follows :—
The object of the improvements is to obtain a cement adapted
amongst other things to resist moisture, to set rapidly under different
circumstances, also to prevent the escape of gases and disagreeable
odours.

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on the 31st October 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LONSDALE
BRADLEY, of Rotterdam, in the Kingdom of Holland, but now residing
at No. 5, Park Place, Regent's Park, in the County of Middlesex, Cement
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-fifth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Lonsdale Bradley, Her special license that I'
the said Lonsdale Bradley, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Lonsdale Bradley, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE Manu-
FACTURE OF CEMENT," upon the condition (amongst others,) that I, the said
Lonsdale Bradley, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 Lonsdale Bradley, do hereby declaro
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 :—
The object of the improvements is to obtain a cement adapted amongst
other things to resist moisture, to set rapidly under different circum-
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page_text: I claim is the improvements in the manufacture of cement, substantially
as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lonsdale Bradley, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
LONSDALE BRADLEY. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered
by the above-named Lonsdale
Bradley, in the presence of,
LEOPOLD LEWIS,
Sol.,
4, Skinner's Place, Sise Lane,
Queen Victoria Street,
London.