AN IMPROVE MENT IN THE METHOD OF ORNAMENTING BOTTLES, VASES, AND JARS USED FOR PERFUME OR TOILET PURPOSES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Sidney Brown, of No. 5, Blackfriars Road, in the
County of Surrey, Perfumer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVE
MENT IN THE METHOD OF ORNAMENTING BOTTLES, VASES, AND JARS USED FOR
PERFUME OR TOILET PURPOSES."
Sealed the 21st August 1868, and dated the 7th March 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sidney Brown at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th March 1868.
I, SIDNEY BROWN, of No. 5, Blackfriars Road, in the County of
Surrey, Perfumer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE METHOD OF ORNAMENTING BOTTLES, VASES, AND
JARS USED FOR PERFUME OR TOILET PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
I combine for the purposes of ornament and utility a locket or case
to contain a portrait or device with a perfume or toilet bottle, vase, or
jar, and for that purpose I cause the bottle, vase, or jar to be made with

page_text: a cavity in the side or stopper, and in this cavity I fix by cement or
otherwise a locket or case capable of being opened and closed, and of
having a portrait or device inserted or withdrawn.
I also claim to use more than one of such cavities and lockets if
desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Sidney Brown in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 5th September 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SIDNEY
BROWN, of No. 5, Blackfriars Road, in the County of Surrey, Perfumer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Sidney Brown, Her special licence,
that I, the said Sidney Brown, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Sidney Brown, 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 "AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN THE METHOD OF ORNAMENTING BOTTLES, VASES, AND JARS USED FOR
PERFUME OR TOILET PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Sidney Brown, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
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 Sidney Brown, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
I combine for the purposes of ornament and utility a locket or case
to contain a portrait or device with a perfume or toilet bottle, vase, or
jar, and for that purpose I cause the bottle, vase, or jar to be made with
a cavity of greater or less depth in the side or stopper, and in this
cavity I fix by cement or otherwise a locket or frame with a glass
cover capable of being opened and closed, and of having a portrait or
device inserted or withdrawn, and with or without a closing cover.
I also claim to use in the bottles plain, colored, or ornamented glass,
and in the lockets any of the metals or known compounds, and to use
more than one of such cavities and lockets, if desired.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sidney Brown, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.