AN ENTIRE NEW MACHINE OR STINK TRAP, WHICH CAN BE MADE OF COPPER, IRON, AND ALL OTHER SORTS OF METALS, AND LIKEWISE OF EARTH, &C., AND WHICH WILL ENTIRELY FREVENT THE
Year: 1782

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
GAITTAIT, of the Parish of Saint George, Hanover Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Cook, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Nineteenth day of June, in the twenty-second year of His reign, did
give and grant unto me, the said John Gaittait, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that
I, the said John Gaittait, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every
of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John Gaittait, my executors,
administrators, or 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
that part of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN ENTIRE NEW MACHINE
OR STINK TRAP, WHICH CAN BE MADE OF COPPER, IRON, AND ALL OTHER SORTS OF
METALS, AND LIKEWISE OF EARTH, &C., AND WHICH WILL ENTIRELY FREVENT THE

page_text: VERY DISAGREEABLE SMELLS FROM DRAINS AND SEWERS," in such manner as to
me, the said John Gaittait, my executors, administrators, or assigns, or any
of them, should in my or their discretions seem meet; and that I, the said
John Gaittait, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully
might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantago
from time to time coming, growing, accrueing, and arising by reason of the
said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have,
hold, exercise; and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said John
Gaittait, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto
the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters
Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended,
according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John
Gaittait, by and instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calandar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto
had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Gaittait, do hereby declare that the said Invention consists of a machino
made of any dimensions, but smaller at the bottom than at the top. It is
made of copper, iron, brass, tin, composition, or earth, and of any shape what-
ever, as well round, flat, oval, or triangular, as any other form to which it can
be applied. In the side of this machine or trap is a slit or cavity, of a size
and at such distance from the bottom as is proportioned to the dimensions of
the machine. In the inside is soldered or fixed a partition, of the same sort of
material that the outside of the trap is made of. The bottom of this partition,
in the inside, comes below the slit or cavity in the side of the trap, so as to
let remain such a quantity of water as to prevent any smell from comeing
through, and at the same time does not dry away or leave it empty for a con-
siderable time, supposing no fresh water is thrown into it. This machine or
stink trap is let into lead or any other sort of pipes that are made, and also
into stone or any other kind of sinks. It has a top, with several holes in it,
which is made of cast iron; and the trap being let into the pipe or sink,
so as there be a kind of grove to let the top of the trap lay flush or even with
the bottom of the sink or closet where the water is thrown down, and is either
fastened by soldering, or left loose to be taken up at pleasure.

page_text: This is a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which I do use or perform the same.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thir-
teenth day of September, in the twenty-second year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of Great
Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so
forth, and in the year of our Lord Ono thousand seven hundred and
eighty-two