A CAP OR COWL, OF A NEW CONSTRUCTION, TO BE PLACED ON THE TOPS OF CHIMNEYS
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
GOSWELL GILES, of the City of London, Merchant, send greeting.
•
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, in and by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixth day of February,
in the fifty-second year of His reign, for Himself, His heirs and successors,
did give and grant unto me, the said Robert Goswell Giles, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege,
and authority, that I, the said Robert Goswell Giles, my executors, administra-
tors, or assigns, by myself and themselves, or by my or their deputy or
deputies, servants,, or agents, or such others as I, the said Robert Goswell
Giles, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term- of 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 CAP OR COWL, OF A NEW CONSTRUCTION, TO BE PLACED ON THE TOPS OF CHIMNEYS;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
Robert Goswell Giles, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next

page_text: and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert Goswell Giles, do, by the annexed Drawings and references thereto,
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, that is to say :-
A, B, C, D, Figure 1, is the section of a chimney pot with the cap E, F,
G, H, fixed thercon. The shape of the cap is that of a cylinder open at both
ends, the area of the base or lower end G, H, being double that of the top of
the chimney pot A, B, and the upper end is constructed by a shoulder leaving
the aperture E, E, something larger than A, B. I, K, represents a lid or cover
whose upper surface is convex, and is fixed by the brackets b, b, b, b, to the
inside of the cap about-three inches below the opening E, F, and from three
to four inches (as the case may require) above the top of the pot, and projects
(about of an inch) over the rim to prevent the rain, &c. from dripping down
the chimney. The cap is made to descend from three to six inches below the
top of the pot, and in some instances the sides are carried up straight without the
shoulder to e and f, in which cases the lid J, K, should not be distant more than
two and a half or three inches from the top of the pot A, B. The cap is fastened
to the pot by four brackets a, a, a, a, and may be made of iron or any other
proper material. Figure 2 represents the cap and pot in perspective, where the
cap is supposed to be transparent. Figure 3 represents the same when viewed
from the under side. A, B, is the top of the pot, and G, H, the bottom of the
cap, the area of the circle G, H, being about double that of the circle A, B.
The circular space L, L, L, left for the passage of the smoke, will be equal to
the area of the circle M.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Goswell Giles, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this
day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twelve

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixth day of April, in the fifty-
second year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said
Robert Goswell Giles came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and everything therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument afore-
said was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the forty-eighth
year of His said Majesty's reign.
Inrolled the Sixth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and twelve.