AN IMPROVEMENT IN GARDEN POTS
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
CUTTEN, of Margate, in the County of Kent, Coal Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS I did by petition represent to Her most Excellent Majesty
Queen Victoria that I had invented "AN IMPROVEMENT IN GARDEN POTS," and
Her said Majesty being willing to encourage all useful Inventions, did issue
Her Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Second day of November, in the third year of Her reign,
whereby Her said Majesty, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, did give and
grant unto me, the said John Cutten, Her especial licence, that I, the said
John Cutten, my executors, administrators, or assigns, or such others as I,
the said John Cutten, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times 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 said Invention, in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said John Cutten, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and scal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same
to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery, within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters

page_text: Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Cutten, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following explanation thereof (that is to say):-
My Invention of "An Improvement in Garden Pots "consists in the manu-
facture of a double pot, that is to say, that in addition to a garden pot as
usually made I form from the base of the same an outer or second side by
which a space of a size in proportion to that of the pot is made parallel with
the inner or first side, into which space it is intended to place water, and
inasmuch as garden pots are manufactured of clay or carthy matter which is
porous and continues to be porous even after the process of baking in a kiln,
so that the water which is placed between the two sides filters through the
pores thereof, and such portion as passes through the first or inner side gives
nutriment to the plant and a continued and uniform supply of water is
kept up.
In order that my Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect I will proceed to describe the means by which I perform my
said improvement. I take of clay or other carthy matter as I may judge most
fitting a sufficient quantity to make one pot, and placing the same upon a potter's
turning lathe, put the treadle in motion and as the lathe revolves fashion with
my hands a common garden pot, leaving a certain quantity of the material at
the base thereof, which I then proceed to draw up parallel with the side of the
inner pot thus making the second side, and which I produce to such a height
as I think proper, though I prefer generally to bring it about from one-eighth
to one quarter of an inch (according to the size of the pot) below the level of
the inner or first side. Now it is the custom to make garden pots of one
peculiar form, still my Invention will apply to any shape or pattern whatever.
Now whereas the application of clay and various earths in the forination of
garden pots is known or used, therefore I do not claim any right or privilege
in respect of the same; and whereas the manufacture of garden pots in a
potter's lathe is not new, therefore I do not claim any right or privilege in
respect of the same; but in the formation of a garden pot having double sides
made from a single piece of clay or other earthy matter without join of any kind,
being to the best of my belief new and never before used in that part of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain called England, Her Majesty's Principality

page_text: of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do declare this to be my
Specification of the same, and I claim as new and as my Invention.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-
eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and forty.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named John Cutten in the
presence of
SAM POINTON,
JNO (L.S.) CUTTEN.
4, Charlotte Sq,
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of April, in
the third year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the aforesaid John
Cutten came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and
specified, in form above written. And also the instrument aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the fifty-fifth year of the
reign of His late Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and
forty.