A NEW CONSTRUCTION OF AND IMPROVEMENT IN AND UPON COCKS AND VALVES
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I JAMES
PHILLIPS, of George Yard, Lombard Street, London, Stationer, do send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Twentieth day of May. in the twenty-fifth year
of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said James Phillips, His especial
licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said James
Phillips, during the term of fourteen 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 "A NEW CONSTRUCTION OF
AND IMPROVEMENT IN AND UPON COCKS AND VALVES;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said James Phillips,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the said Letters Patent,
reference being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Phillips, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained as follows, that is to say:―
My new Invention of a New Construction of and Improvement in and upon
Cocks and Valves, that is to say, that sort or kind of valves usually called cocks,

page_text: consists of an addition, adaption, or application of one or more spring or
springs, spiral, circular, or of any other convenient form, made or composed of
steel or other metal, or elastick materials, so applied as to act upon such cocks
or valves, and occasion them to close and shut, and hold and keep them close
and shut, when not held back or open by a force applied to and acting against
such spring or springs, and thereby preclude or prevent the passage of water,
or such other liquor or fluid as may be desired through such cocks or valves
when not so held open, which spring or springs may be affixed to the handle,
plug, socket, bow, or any other part of any such cock or valve, or an arm,
branch, pin, or plate to be annexed thereto, or to the pipe, tube, funnel,
barrell, cask, tub, or other vessel, utensil, or thing in or to which such cock
or valve is put, introduced, or affixed, or to any of them, and so as either
to be open to view, or closed and concealed from view in a box or other proper
covering for that purpose. And such spring or springs is or are to be turned or
acted against so as to open such cock or valve by means of a lever, arm, plate,
pin, notch, or other catch or hold in or affixed to the socket, bow, or other
part of the cock, or an arm, branch, pin, or plate annexed thereto, or to the
pipe, tube, funnel, barrell, cask, tub, or other vessell, utensil, or thing, in or to
which such cock is put, introduced, or affixed; and such spring or springs
may be affixed at one end to the socket of such cock, and at the other end to
the plug thereof, by a pin working in a groove, mortice, or aperture cut in or
through the socket for that purpose. The plug of any cock to which such
spring or springs is or are applied may be made either plain or with a screw;
and to any such cock may be added a chain, bolt, pin, or other fastening,
which may be passed through a loop or staple, to be fixed into or screwed to
the cask, barrel, or other vessel into which the cock is put, and may be locked
by a padlock or otherwise, in order to secure the cock to the pipe, tube, funnel,
barrel, cask, tub, or other vessel, utensil, or thing.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Phillips, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of the sixth month usually called
June in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty.
five
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stamped, in the presence of
JAMS PHILLIPS. (L.S.)
JA MAINSTONE,
Essex Street.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Eighteenth day of June, in the
twenty-fifth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said
James Phillips came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein con-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument afore-
said was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made in the
sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of
England, and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years of the reign of His
Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the said Eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.