IM- PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LAMP GLASSES AND GLOBES
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Neville, of Gateshead, in the County
of Durham, Glass Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LAMP GLASSES AND GLOBES."
Sealed the 2nd March 1853, and dated the 3rd December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Neville at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 3rd December 1852.
I, SAMUEL NEVILLE, of Gateshead, in the County of Durham,
Glass Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LAMP GLASSES
AND GLOBES" to be as follows:
I first drop the glass when in a liquid state into a mould, and
then by pressure stamp it with the pattern and design required
upon it. On removing the glass from the mould it is heated in the
"pot," is polished, and shaped to the size and form desired.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Samuel Neville in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 2nd June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J,
SAMUEL NEVILLE, of Gateshead, in the County of Durham, Glass
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Neville, Her
special licence that I, the said Samuel Neville, my executors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel
Neville, 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF LAMP GLASSES
AND GLOBES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Samuel Neville, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, 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 Samuel Neville, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and. ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:
I first drop the glass when in a liquid state into a mould; and
then by pressure stamp it with the pattern and design required by
the means ordinarily pursued in stamping glass. On removing the

page_text: glass from the mould it is heated in the "pot," is polished, and
shaped to the size and form desired.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same, is to be performed, I declare that
I claim,-
The manufacture of lamp glasses and globes in the manner
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Neville, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this First day of June, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-three.
SAMUEL NEVILLE. (L.S.)