IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLASS BOTTLES
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edgar Breffit, of 61, King William Street, in the
City of London, Glass Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLASS BOTTLES."
Sealed the 15th June 1858, and dated the 15th December 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edgar Breffit at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
:15th December 1857.
I, EDGAR BREFFIT, of 61, King William Street,, in the City of London,
Glass Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN. THE MANUFACTURE OF GLASS BOTTLES," to be as follows:-
The employment of moulds and push-ups of wood, chemically prepared, so as
to reduce its inflamability, whereby bottles of larger dimensions can be made
and the bottoms pushed up better than by the use of metal for the same
purpose.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edgar Breffit, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th June 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDGAR
BREFFIT, of 61, King William Street, in the City of London, Glass
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto

page_text: me, the said Edgar Breflit, Her special licence that 1, tho said Edgar
Breffit, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Edgar Breffit, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agreo with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, uso, 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 GLASS BOTTLES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Edgar Breflit, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or onc
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 tho
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edgar Breffit, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My Invention consists in the employment of moulds of wood in the
production of glass bottles, and particularly of such as are of large dimentions,
for which purposo I construct the mould of the material named in the ordinary
way, the interior of which determines the size and configuration of the bottle.
To render the wood so employed less inflamible, and more durable for the
purpose, I impregnate it with solutions of either alum or silicate of soda.
But in practice, I find that some of the harder kinds of wood thoroughly
saturated with water and spunged out with the same after each bottle is
blown, very effectual for the purpose of making bottles of large dimentions.
I employ wood also in the same manner as I do for moulds for push-ups.
I claim the use of wood as above described for the construction of moulds
and push-ups in the production of glass bottles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edgar Breffit, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
EDGAR BREFFII. (LS.)