CERTAIN. IMPROVE- MENTS IN TEA AND COFFEE URNS
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SARAH
GUPPY, Wife of SAMUEL GUPPY, of the City of Bristol, Merchant, send
greeting.
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WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George, the Third did, by
His Letters Patent.under the Great Seal of the, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland; bearing date.at Westminster, the Fourteenth day of
March, in the fifty-second year of His reign, give, and grant unto me,, the
said. Sarah Guppy,.my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole privilege.and. authority,.,that I, the said Sarah Guppy, my, exors,
admors, and assigns,.. should and lawfully, might,, during the term of years
therein mentioned, make, use,..exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN. IMPROVE-
MENTS IN TEA AND COFFEE URNS;" in which said Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso, that if I, the said Sarah Guppy, shall not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
and cause the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's 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, shall utterly cease, determine, and
become void, as in and by the. same, relation being thereunto, had, may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Sarah Guppy, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in manner following, that is to say :-
I do make my tea and coffee urns in general of any of the usual forms and
constructions to contain water or any of the other fluids which commonly are
or may be put into such vessels, and I do heat or keep hot the said water or
fluids by the use and application of a lamp, or candle, or heater of metal, or
by any other well-known means; but I do so far vary the said forms and
constructions as to admit of a small vessel being fixed, placed, suspended, or
inserted within the upper part of the said urns respectively, so that the said
vessel shall receive heat from contact or immersion in the heated fluid, or from
the steam or vapour issuing therefrom, and be capable of receiving one or more
eggs and of boiling or cooking the same; and I do accordingly so fix, place, sus-
pend, or insert a small vessel of such form and size as may suit the said purpose,
and do use and apply the same to the boiling or cooking of eggs or other pur-
poses; and further, I do in the same or in other urns so vary the form and
construction of the upper part or cover thereof, as to afford an elegant and
convenient support for a plate or small dish or other vessel to contain toast or
other article of food or refreshment, and by contact with the heated fluid or
the steam or vapour proceeding therefrom to keep the same well and suf-
ficiently heated during the time the said plate or dish shall continue upon the
said support; and I do accordingly so place and use such plates, dishes or
vessels for the purposes aforesaid; and I do further declare that I do make the
said changes and additions in and unto tea and coffee urns of various forms,
so as to be capable of being applied or removed, as convenience or choice may
require, and that the said forms and dimensions in all the variety of the same
may be fully and compleatly determined from a conson of the purposes
intended to be answered by any competent workman in the manufacturing of
articles of this or the like nature.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sarah Guppy, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twelve.
SARAH GUPPY. (L.s.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-
named Sarah Guppy, in the presence of
BROOKE SMITH, a Master Extra. in Chancery.
ORTON SMITH. Sol. Bristol

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of May, in the year
of our Lord 1812, the aforesaid Sarah Guppy came before our said Lord the
King in His 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 stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and twelve.