A METHOD OF JOINING STONE PIPES IN A MORE EFFECTUAL MANNER THAN HAD BEEN BEFORE DISCOVERED
Year: 1810

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
HILL, of Serle Street, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Third day of July, in the fiftieth year of His reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said Samuel Hill, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
full power, sole privilege, and authority, that I, the said Samuel Hill, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, during the term of fourteen years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, and vend the Inven-
tion therein mentioned, to wit, "A METHOD OF JOINING STONE PIPES IN A
MORE EFFECTUAL MANNER THAN HAD BEEN BEFORE DISCOVERED," within that part
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as
to me, the said Samuel Hill, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any.
of them, should seem meet; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence,
powers, and privileges therein granted unto me, the said Samuel Hill, 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 complete and ended, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent there
is (amongst other things) contained a proviso, that if I, the said Samuel Hill,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing

page_text: under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court
of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, as in and by the said Letters Patent, reference being there-
unto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Hill, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows (that is
to say):
:-
I cut a piece of stone, of any length, bore, and external dimensions, into rims
or collars, as represented at the letter A, see Drawing in the margin; from
thenco I take a collar, as at B, and join it at the end of the pipe, as at E, with
a cement; the external diameter of the pipe E being a little smaller than the
bore of the collar, to allow the cement to lie between the collar and the pipe,
and I put the collar only half-way on the pipe, the other half projecting to
receive the pipe that is to be joined to the one on which the collar is already
fixed; for instance, if the collar B or F be four inches thick, I put two inches
on the pipe E, leaving a projection of two inches to receive the pipe G. I then
take the pipe G and insert one end into the projecting part of collar F to meet
the pipe E, taking care to spread a sufficient quantity of cement in the internal
part of the collar F, and on the external part of the end of the pipe G, to bo
inserted, so as to prevent any water from passing thro' the joints, and the pipes
when joined will appear as C, C, C; that the collars, although represented by the
Drawings in the margin to be circular, may be of any shape, both externally
and internally; and it is to be observed, I do not take out this Patent for any
particular shape of the collar, or any particular manner of forming the collar,
but for the mode of joining the pipes by means of a collar; all which I claim
as new and invented by me, and I have set forth the same particularly, in order
that my said Invention may be completely disclosed and understood, so as to
be put in practice by others when my Patent expires.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Hill, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirtieth day of August, in the fiftieth year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the
Taith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and ten.
SAM (L.S.) HILL.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of August, in the
fiftieth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said
Samuel Hill 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 aforesaid
was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the forty-eighth
year of His said Majesty's reign.
Inrolled the Third day of September, One thousand eight hundred and ten.