IMPROVED APPLIANCES FOR DISPLAYING IN THE OPEN AIR OR IN-DOORS ILLUMINATED DESIGNS, DEVICES, MOTTOES, OR ANNOUNCEMENTS, AND IN WHICH JETS OF GAS ARE EMPLOYED AS THE ILLUMI- NATING AGENT
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Josiah Puntis, of Above Bar, Southampton, in the
County of Hants, and George Cox, of Throgmorton Street, in the City of
London, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPLIANCES FOR DISPLAYING IN
THE OPEN AIR OR IN-DOORS ILLUMINATED DESIGNS, DEVICES, MOTTOES, OR
ANNOUNCEMENTS, AND IN WHICH JETS OF GAS ARE EMPLOYED AS THE ILLUMI-
NATING AGENT."
Sealed the 15th August 1863, and dated the 18th February 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Josiah Puntis and George
Cox at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 18th February 1863.
We, JOSIAH PUNTIS, of Above Bar, Southampton, in the County of Hants,
and GEORGE Cox, of Throgmorton Street, in the City of London, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED APPLIANCES +POR DIS-
PLAYING IN THE OPEN AIR OR IN-DOORS ILLUMINATED DESIGNS, DEVICES, MOTTOES,
OR ANNOUNCEMENTS, AND IN WHICH JETS OF GAS ARE EMPLOYED AS THE ILLUMINATING
AGENT," to be as follows :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the modes or methods at
present in use for illuminating public gardens, houses, buildings, and other
structures, and consists of an air-tight metal chamber. of any shape into which
gas is admitted. This chamber is perforated with very fine holes on one or
both sides as occasion may require, and in any device or configuration for the

page_text: purpose of illumination, and on the gas being admitted into said chamber the gas
will pass through said perforations, and when ignited the outside or perforated
side, or both sides, as the case may be, will clearly display the design. Outside
the above-mentioned chamber the design or device can be painted in japan or
distemper colors, or ornamented in any manner to suit the design of illumination.
as circumstances may require or as fancy may dictate. The aforesaid chambers
may be suspended across streets, in which case they should be perforated on
both sides. The pipe for conveying gas to said chamber may be of flexible mate-
rial passed along the under part of the suspending cord or wire rope. By this
Invention the expense of making devices for illuminations is considerably less
than when perforated tubing is employed as at present practised.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Josiah Puntis and George Cox in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th August 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSIAH
PUNTIS, of Above Bar, Southampton, in the County of Hants, and GEORGE
Cox, of Throgmorton Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
+
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, IIer heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Josiah Puntis and George Cox, Her special licence,
that we, the said Josiah Puntis and George Cox, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Josiah Puntis and
George Cox, cur executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED APPLIANCES
FOR DISPLAYING IN THE OPEN AIR OR IN-DOORS ILLUMINATED DESIGNS, DEVICES,
MOTTOES, OR ANNOUNCEMENTS, AND IN WHICH JETS OF GAS ARE EMPLOYED AS THE
ILLUMINATING AGENT," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Josiah Puntis and George Cox, our executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands or 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

page_text: filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Josiah Puntis and George Cox, do
hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the modes or methods at
present in use for illuminating public gardens, houses, buildings, and other
structures, and consists of an air-tight metal chamber of any shape into which
gas is admitted. This chamber is perforated with very fine holes on one or
both sides as occasion may require, and in any device or configuration for the
purpose of illumination, and on the gas being admitted into said chamber the
gas will pass through said perforations, and when ignited the outside or per-
forated side, or both sides, as the case may be, will clearly display the design.
Outside the above-mentioned chamber the design or device can be painted in
japan or distemper colors, or ornamented in any manner to suit the design of
illumination as circumstances may require or as fancy may dictate. The
aforesaid chambers may be suspended across streets, in which case they should
be perforated on both sides. The pipe for conveying gas to said chamber may
be of flexible material passed along the under part of the suspending cord or
wire rope. By this Invention the expense of making devices for illuminations
is considerably less than when perforated tubing is employed as at present
practised.
The accompanying Drawing will illustrate more fully this Invention, and
the means by which the same may be put into practise.
And in order to explain our said Invention as completely as possible, we
now proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying
the same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of
Drawings accompanying these Presents, and to the numeral figures and letters
of reference marked thereon respectively as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents an elevation of one side of the aforesaid case or
chamber; Figure 2, the opposite side thereof; Figure 3, a transverse and
vertical section through the line A, B, at Figure 1.
A is a narrow case of metal; B, holes or perforations therein for the exit of
gas, which enters and fills said case by the pipe C connected thereto, and with
a gas main by elastic or rigid tubing. Figure 1 represents the design ready
to be fixed to the front of a building, in which case one side only of said case

page_text: need be perforated in the desired form of the design; Figure 2 represents
the case ready to be slung or suspended across a street, in which case both
sides of the said case may be perforated in the. desired form of the design.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of our said
Invention for "Improved Appliances for Displaying in the Open Air or In-
doors Illuminated Designs, Devices, Mottoes, or Announcements, and in
which Jets of Gas are employed as the Illuminating Agent," together with the
best means we are acquainted for carrying the same into practical effect, we
would remark in conclusion that we hereby declare our Invention to consist in,
and we claim, a vessel of the above construction into which gas is to be
admitted and allowed to pass off through holes or perforations in the side or
sides of said chamber, said holes being disposed in accordance with the
required design or device, as above stated.
In witness whereof, we, the said Josiah Puntis and George Cox, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Seventeenth day of August, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hunded & sixty-three.
JOSIAH PUNTIS. (L.S.)
GEORGE COX.
(LS.)