AN IMPROVEMENT IN WATCHES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lianna Mesure, of Billericay, in the County of Essex,
Watch Maker, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN WATCHES."
Sealed the 20th June 1856, and dated the 17th April 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Lianna Mesure at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th April 1856.
I, LIANNA MESURE, of Billericay, in the County of Essex, Watch Maker,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
WATCHES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in watches, with a view to
make watches go for eight days in place of one; and the improvement consists
of fixing on the barrel containing the spring a wheel of sixty or more teeth, to
work on a pinion fixed on the axis of what I call the eight-day wheel of
seventy or more teeth, which works the centre wheel. The fuzee and chain
are dispensed with.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Lianna Mesure in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th October 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LIANNA
MESURE, of Billericay, in the County of Essex, Watchmaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Lianna Mesure, Her special licence that I, the said Lianna Mesure, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Lianna
Mesure, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thercafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN WATCHES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Lianna Mesure, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Lianna Mesure, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in watches, with a view to
make watches go for eight days in place of one; and the improvement
consists of fixing on the barrel containing the spring or wheel a wheel of sixty
or more teeth, to work on a pinion fixed on the axis of what I call the eight-
day wheel of seventy or more teeth, which works the centre wheel. The fuzee
and chain are dispensed with.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.

page_text: Witness,
AR. CARPMAEL.
L. MESURE. (L.S.)