IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERS FOR WATERCLOSETS, NIGHT STOOLS, AND BED PANS
Year: 1841

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
LINDSAY, of Lewisham, in the County of Kent, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS I did, by Petition, represent unto Her most Excellent
Majesty Queen Victoria that I had invented "IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERS FOR
WATERCLOSETS, NIGHT STOOLS, AND BED PANS," and Her said Majesty,.
being willing to encourage all useful inventions, did issue Her Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the
Twenty-ninth-day of March, in the fourth year of Her reign,; whereby Her
said Majesty did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Lindsay, Her special license that I, the said John Lindsay,
my exors, adñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Lindsay, my
exors, admors, and 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 said Invention; in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John
Lindsay, 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 enrolled in Her
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Lindsay, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are described and ascer-
tained in manner following (that is to say):-
NATURE AND USE OF THE SAID INVENTION.
A circular piece of mahogany, or any other wood or substance, or mahogany
and deal, or any other wood crossing each other to prevent warping. Surround
it with a stripe or stripes of woollen cloth or any other elastic substance
according as the pan it is intended for deviates from a circle, and with or
without a groove to receive the said substance. Above this pass a band or
strip of chamois leather, or any other adhesive matter having a hook or hooks
on one end to secure it. Make a hole in any part of the board to receive a
peg to fit. When the extinguisher is pressed down, keeping the peg out,
the air escapes through this hole, and when sufficiently low, on putting the peg
in, all smell is prevented, and it is hermetically sealed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Lindsay, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
JOHN (L.S.). LINDSAY.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1841, the aforesaid John Lindsay came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-one.