IMPROVE- MENTS IN CONNECTING TUBES AND PIPES AND OTHER SURFACES OF GLASS AND EARTHENWARE, AND IN CONNECTING OTHER MATTERS WITH GLASS AND. EARTHEN- WARE
Year: 1850

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
MAYO, of the firm of Mayo and Warmington, Silver Street, Wood Street,
Cheapside, in the City of London, Manufacturers of Mineral Æerated Waters,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her.
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of
February, (One thousand eight hundred and fifty,) in the thirteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Mayo, my exors, adiňors, and assigns, Her especial license,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William Mayo,
my exors, admiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Mayo,
my exors, adiñors, 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 Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CONNECTING TUBES AND PIPES AND OTHER SURFACES OF GLASS AND
EARTHENWARE, AND IN CONNECTING OTHER MATTERS WITH GLASS AND. EARTHEN-
WARE;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said
William Mayo, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said

page_text: Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court
of Chancery 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 thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Mayo, 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 statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
My Invention consists of forming metal connections or joints on glass or
earthenware tubes and pipes, and in connecting such description of pipes and
tubes and other surfaces of glass and earthenware with other matters by
casting metal thereon. And in order that my Invention may be most fully
understood and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means
pursued by me. The form of metal joint which I prefer is to have metal
flanches cast on the ends of the glass and earthenware pipes or tubes, and then
to connect the flanched ends by means of screw couplings, but the forms of
the joints may be varied, so long as the same are produced by casting metal
on to glass and earthenware tubes or pipes, but for convenience of connecting
and disconnecting such pipes or tubes I prefer, as before stated, to employ
joints formed by flanches, and the means I resort to are as follows:-
Figure 1 shows in section the end of a glass or earthenware tube; Figure 2
is an outside view of the same, having a metal shoulder cast thereon; and
Figure 3 shows two ends of glass or earthenware tubes or pipes joined
by a screw coupling, the screw coupling itself being similar to what has before
been employed for connecting the ends of pipes and tubes made of other
materials. Figure 4 shews a plan, Figure 5 a side view, of metal moulds,
such as I employ for casting metal on to tubes or pipes of glass or earthenware
for the purpose of forming means of connecting them; Figure 6 shows an
internal view of such moulds, with parts in section arranged with a tube or
pipe therein ready for having a casting of metal made thereon, and it will be
found that when a metal connection or casting is made thereon it will adhere,
and be well and securely fixed, and will retain fluids in such pipes or tubes,
notwithstanding the fluids therein are subjected to considerable pressure.
a is a portion of a tube or pipe of glass or earthenware; b is the metal cast
thereon; c, c, are the two parts of the mould, the interior of which is to bo

page_text: of such construction as to produce the form and character of connection
desired. The mould shewn in the Drawing is for producing cast-metal
flanches on such descriptions of tubes and pipes, but it will be evident that the
form and character of the metal joint may be greatly varied, requiring only
variations in the interior construction and character of the moulds used for
producing the metal casting on the glass or earthenware tubes or pipes. dis
a collar which retains the tube or pipe in a vertical position, and also closes
the upper part of the mould; e is a conical plug forming the bottom of the
mould, such screw plug being screwed into the bottom plate f of the mould, as
shown, and its position may be readily adjusted. I believe pure metal tin is
the best metal for making such metal connections, and I pour such metal
when melted at the "get" or opening g, so that the metal will fill and rise up
from the lower part of the mould, driving the air before it. The glass or
earthenware tube is warmed before putting it into the mould. By these means
will a metal casting be made of the description shown and described on the
end of a tube or pipe of glass or earthenware.
It will be evident that such descriptions of castings being thus made on
tubes or pipes of glass, they may readily be connected one to another, by screw
couplings, such as is shown in the Drawing, or they may by similar means be
connected to surfaces of other matters, such as metal pipes or tubes. In con-
necting two parts together, as by a screw coupling, I prefer to apply at the
joint formed (by the coming together of the two ends) a small quantity of
beeswax. By using moulds according to the form of casting desired to be
made, the tubular necks or other tubular parts of glass or of earthenware
bottles or other vessels, may have castings made thereon suitable for connec-
tions for fixing tubes or pipes thereto or covers thereon, and in like manner
may other surfaces of glass and earthenware be connected with other matters
by casting metal thereon.
I would, however, remark that I do not claim generally the casting of
metal on to carthenware vessels, for I am aware that metal cocks for drawing
off rated liquids have long been made and fixed by casting them on to
carthenware bottles. My present Invention is for obtaining means of con-
necting tubes or pipes or other surfaces of glass and earthenware to each
other, and to pipes or tubes, and other surfaces of other matter.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would state that I do not confino myself
to the details herein shewn and described, so long as suitable castings of metal
are made on pipes or tubes of glass or earthenware; but what I claim is, the

page_text: forming of connections or joints on glass and earthenware tubes and pipes,
and connecting such tubes and pipes and other surfaces of glass or earthen-
ware with other matters by making castings of metal on glass and earthenware
tubes and pipes, and on other surfaces of glass and earthenware.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Mayo, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One