A METHOD OF MAKING LAVERS OR WASH BASONS OF METAL MUCH MORE ELEGANT AND USEFUL THAN HATH HITHERTO BEEN MADE
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
ROBERTS, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Silver Plater, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and 'Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourth day of
February, in the fifty-second year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Roberts, my exors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Samuel
Roberts, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD OF MAKING LAVERS OR WASH BASONS
OF METAL MUCH MORE ELEGANT AND USEFUL THAN HATH HITHERTO BEEN MADE;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said
Samuel Roberts, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in Our High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, that .then

page_text: the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become -void, as in and by the
same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Roberts, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained by the Drawing made hereunder, and the following
description thereof (that is to say):―
That the novelty of my said Invention consists in the laver or wash bason
being sunk or contained within an outer and larger bason or receptacle, which,
being filled with water, the water may be drawn for use when wanted, by
means of a cock or other contrivance, into the inner bason, and from thence
can be drawn off, when foul, by means of another cock, into a reservoir below.
The reservoir may, when needful, be taken away and emptied. The outer
bason or receptable for water may be made of almost any shape or size, either
to be contained within a case of mahogany or other wood, or to form of itself
an ornamental vase or urn. The receptacle and inner bason are made of
metal of any kind required, which may be left the natural colour of the metal,
or it may be gilt, painted, bronzed, japanned, or otherwise coloured, as fancy
may suggest. The Drawing below, though only one of the almost innumerable
forms forms which the Invention is capable of being made to assume, will
serve, with the references, more clearly to indicate the contrivance.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Roberts, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twelve.

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AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of March, in the
year of our Lord 1812, the aforesaid Samuel Roberts came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery and acknowleged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in formi
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twelve.