CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CULINARY APPARATUS DISCLAIMER AND MEMORANDUM OF ALTERATIONS to a the touching Letters "for. Inventions
Year: 1831

page_text: En the latter of a Patent granted to ROBERT HICKS, late of Wimpole
Street, in the County of Middlesex, but now of Cleveland City, Ohio,
one of the United States of America, for his Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN CULINARY APPARATUS," bearing date the Sixth day
of July, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
DISCLAIMER AND MEMORANDUM OF ALTERATIONS proposed to be
entered by George Henry Hicks, of-Baldock, in the County of Hertford;
Doctor of Medicine, the lawful Attorney duly constituted and appointed
by the said Robert Hicks, for him and in his name to execute and
deliver all instruments, in writing necessary to carry the said Patent into
full effect, with the Clerk of the Patents of England, pursuant to an
Act passed in the fifth and sixth year of the reign of His present
Majesty, entituled "An Act to amend the Law touching Letters Patent
"for. Inventions."
I, the said George Henry Hicks, do hereby declare that, whereas in the
pecification of the said Patent duly inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery, and in the Drawing thereunto annexed, the hood which covers the
eat or article of food intended to be cooked by the gas flames, as described
the said Specification, is stated to be and represented as a "conical hood,"
hich said hood is also stated to be and represented as "suspended" over the
aid meat or other article of food to be cooked: Now, whereas it is unnecessary
or obtaining the full effect and benefit of the said Invention, that the said
ood should be a conical hood, but that it may be of any convenient shape or
orm; neither is it necessary that the said hood should be "suspended" over
he meat or article of food to be cooked, but that it may be supported in that

page_text: position in any manner the most convenient according to the circumstances of
the case, for better ascertaining the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed; I do, therefore, hereby dis-
claim the words "conical" and "suspended," in the twelfth line of the
Specification of the said Robert Hicks.
T the said Conure Honry Hinks do hereunto set my
position in any manner Luv
the case, for better ascertaining the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed; I do, therefore, hereby dis-
claim the words "conical" and "
suspended," in the twelfth line of the
Specification of the said Robert Hicks.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Henry Hicks, do hereunto cat my
hand, this Thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-seven.
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GEORGE HENRY HICKS. (L.S.)
To the Clerk of the Patents of England.
This is to certify, that George Henry Hicks, of Baldock, in the County of
Hertford, Doctor of Medicine, as the Attorney of Robert Hicks, formerly of
Wimpole Street, in the County of Middlesex, Surgeon, but now of Cleveland
City, Oiho, in the United States of America, has applied to me for leave to
enter with you the above written Disclaimer and Memorandum of Alterations
of the Specification of a certain Invention, for which Letters Patent were
duly granted to the said Robert Hicks, under the Great Seal, dated the Sixth
day of July, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and the Specification
of which was enrolled on the Fourth day of January, One thousand eight
hundred and thirty-two. I have accordingly allowed the same; and you are
hereby authorized and directed to file the above-written Disclaimer and
Memorandum of Alteration, pursuant to the Statute passed in the fifth and
sixth years of the reign of His present Majesty, entitled an Act to amend
the Law touching Letters Patent for Inventions. Dated the Thirteenth day
of June, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.
J. CAMPBELL.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1837, the aforesaid George Henry Hicks came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Disclaimer afore-
said, and all and everything therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Disclaimer aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.