CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERING OR STOPPERING THE TOPS OF BOTTLES, JARS, POTS, AND OTHER SIMILAR VESSELS
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, BENJAMIN
WEST, of Saint James' Walk, Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, Book
Binder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixteenth day of October, One thousand eight hundred and
forty-five, in the ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Benjamin West, my exors,
admors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Benjamin West, my exors, adiñors, and assigns,
and such others as I, the said Benjamin West, my exors, adiñors, and assigns,
should at any time' agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter 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, in the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and
Man, and in all Her Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention.
of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERING OR STOPPERING THE TOPS OF BOTTLES,
JARS, POTS, AND OTHER SIMILAR VESSELS;" in which said Letters Patent is con-.
tained a proviso obliging me, the said Benjamin West, to particularly describo.
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
to cause the same to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery

page_text: within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in
part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereto had,
will more fully and at large appear.....
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Benjamin West, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed and carried into practical
effect, to be as the same are described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention of certain improvements in covering or stoppering. the tops of
bottles, jars, pots, and other similar vessels, consists in the application of the
electrotype process for the deposition of metals around, upon, and over the
upper surface of such said bottles, jars, pots, and other similar vessels, and the
corks and other substances used therewith.
I construct an electrotype apparatus, circular in form, and at or near the
bottom of the vessel containing the sulphate of copper or other metal I place
a ring of copper or other metal, and I connect this ring with the acid by a
wire passing from the said acid to any one part of the said ring, and then
upon this ring I place, side by side in an inverted position, the tops of the
bottles, jars, pots or other similar vessels, and thus the tops of bottles, jars,
pots, and other similar vessels are covered or stoppered in a short space of time
in a manner never before discovered to my knowledge.
I claim as my Invention of certain improvements in covering or stoppering
the tops of bottles, jars, pots, and other similar vessels, the application of the
electrotype process for the purpose of effecting such covering or stoppering in
the manner herein described. And such my Invention being, to the best of my
knowledge and belief, entirely new and never before used in that part of Her
said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
Her said Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in the Islands
of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, and in all Her Majesty's Colonies
and Plantations abroad, I do hereby declare this to be my Specification of the
same, and I do verily believe this my said Specification doth comply in all
respects fully and without reserve or disguise with the proviso in the said
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore I hereby
claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin West, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
BENJN. (L.s.) WEST.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord 1846, the aforesaid Benjamin West came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Sixteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-six.