IMPROVEMENTS IN PALLS FOR CARRYING WASTE WATER OR OTHER LIQUIDS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hildebrand Attwood Wooster Reeves, Architect,
of 270, Cornwall Road, Kensington Park, London, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PALLS FOR CARRYING WASTE WATER OR OTHER
LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 17th December 1872, and dated the 21st October 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hildebrand Attwood
Wooster Reeves at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 21st October 1872.
I, HILDEBRAND ATTWOOD WOOSTER REEVES, Architect, of 270,
Cornwall Road, Kensington Park, London, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PAILS FOR CARRYING WASTE
WATER OR OTHER LIQUIDS," to be as follows :-
My Invention consists of making pails for domestic use and for other
purposes, with a spout attached to them, with or without a hinged flap,
lid, or cover. The Drawing hereunto annexed shows my Invention with
a hinged flap, lid, or cover b, but the spout a may open.
be
My improved pails afford greater convenience in emptying the
contents and ensure greater cleanliness, and when provided with a
covered flap prevent the giving off of noxious odours in domestic use.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Hildebrand Attwood Wooster Reeves in the Great
Scal Patent Office on the 7th April 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HILDE-
BRAND ATTWOOD WOOSTER REEVES, of 270, Cornwall Road, Kensington
Park, London, Architect, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in tho
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Hildebrand Attwood Wooster Reeves,
Her special license that I, the said Hildebrand Attwood Wooster Reeves,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Hildebrand Attwood Wooster Reeves, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN PAILS FOR CARRYING
WASTE WATER OR OTHER LIQUIDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Hildebrand Attwood Wooster Reeves, my executors or ad-
ministrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and scals, 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 Hildebrand Attwood Wooster
Reeves, 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 :—
"
My Invention consists of making pails for domestic use and for other
purposes with spouts, which spouts may be closed by a hinged flap, lid,
"chamber or
or cover, or be left open. The pails ordinarily known as
"slop pails" used for the removal of dirty water from bed chambers
have hitherto been made with wide circular tops, unprovided with any
groove, channel, or spout for directing the flow of the liquid; hence

page_text: when their contents were emptied the waste water was usually spilled
over the seat of the watercloset where such vessels are commonly dis-
charged.
My improved pails are constructed therefore with a spout of a round,
oval, or other suitable shape, and of a size proportionate to the pail.
By preference I make the pails of metal, but other materials may some-
times be used. The improved construction of my pails affords greater
facility for emptying, prevents splashing over and wetting the seat of
waterclosets. My improved pail is ordinarily fitted with a metal lid or
cover, and I prefer that the spout should be also provided with a hinged
flap, lid, or cover, so that the contents of the vessel may not be spilled
during conveyance from one place to another and to prevent the escape
of noxious exhalations. I sometimes perforate the spout with small
holes to prevent the exit of substances which might stop the action of
the watercloset, such as paper, matches, and other like articles which
frequently find a way into chamber vessels.
"
I am aware that pots, cans, and jugs for measuring and holding
liquors have been made with spouts, and I make no claim for con-
structing vessels having spouts other than for "chamber or "slop
pails" for carrying waste water and other liquids for domestic purposes,
but I claim the manufacture of such "chamber or slop pails
structed with a spout, whether such spout be covered or open.
"
con-
In witness whereof I, the said Hildebrand Attwood Wooster Reeves,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of
March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three.
HILDE. A. W. REEVES. (L.S.)
Witness,
CHARLES BARLOW,
Patent Agent,
23, Southampton Buildings,
London.