IMPROVEMENTS CowmanMION OF SEA AND River WALLS AND EMBANKMENTS."
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Colin Mather, of Salford, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, and Edwin Heywood, of Manchester, in the
same County, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
CowmanMION OF SEA AND River WALLS AND EMBANKMENTS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Colin Mather and
Edwin Heywood at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 22nd May 1875.
We, COLIN MATHER, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, and EDWIN HEYWOOD, of Manchester, in the same County,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEA AND RIVER WALLS AND EMBank-
MENTS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in so constructing sea and river walls and
embankments that the water when flowing towards the land is caused to
recoil and so prevented from breaking over the land.
"

page_text: In performing our Invention we prepare à curved or sloping foun-
dation of stone and cement, and above this wo erect a curved shield of
iron, stone, or other material, which at the top is bent towards the sea
or river in suchwise that the waves after striking the wall or embank-
ment are caused to recoil instead of breaking over the said wall or
embankment, and then over the adjacent land. When the shields are
made of cast iron we make projecting brackets on the land side, which
brackets are imbedded in the concrete or other suitablo material forming
the backing of the shields.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Colin Mather and Edwin Heywood in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 20th November 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, COLIN
MATHER, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, and EDWIN
HEYWOOD, of Manchester, in the same County, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Colin Mather and Edwin Heywood, Her
special licence that we, the said Colin Mather and Edwin Heywood, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Colin Mather and Edwin Heywood, our 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, usc, exercise and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for " IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF SEA AND RIVER WALLS AND EMBANKMENTS," upon the condition (amongst a
others) that we, the said Colin Mather and Edwin Heywood, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or
their, or one of our or their hands and scals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: upwards, and causing them to fall back instead of rising over and over-
flowing the adjacent land.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edwin Heywood, for myself and on
behalf of the within-named Colin Mather, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of November One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five.