IMPROVED GLASS AND OTHER VITREOUS VESSELS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to, Henry Maudslay, of No. 4, Cheltenham Place,
Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Civil Engineer, for the Invention
of "IMPROVED GLASS AND OTHER VITREOUS VESSELS."
Sealed the 1st February 1859, and dated the 9th December 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Maudslay at the
Office, of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th December 1858.
I, HENRY MAUDSLAY, of No. 4, Cheltenham Place, Lambeth, in the County
of Surrey, Civil Engineer, do bereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVED GLASS AND OTHER VITREOUS VESSELS," to be as follows:-
The improvement introduced into the manufacture of the said vessels consists
in a new mode of manufacturing the same, in which I am enabled to operate
upon the glass and other vitreous substances of which they are formed with
the same tools and in the same manner as if they were metals.
The means by which this improvement is carried into effect consists in
applying sulphuric acid to the said tools when operating upon the said vitreous
substances in the same manner as oil is usually employed in lubricating the
said tools when operating in a similar manner on metals.
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5 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Maudslay in the Great Seal Patent Office on the:
3rd June 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
MAUDSLAY, of No. 4, Cheltenham Place, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey,
0 Civil Engineer, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Henry Maudslay, Her special. licence that I, the said Henry
Maudslay, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Henry Maudslay, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter 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 of "IM-
PROVED GLASS AND OTHER VITREOUS VESSELS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Henry Maudslay, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, 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 Henry Maudslay, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists of an improvement introduced into the manufacture
of glass and other vitreous vessels, by a new mode of manufacturing the same,
in which I am enabled to operate upon the glass and other vitreous substances
of which they are formed with the same tools and in the same manner as if
they were metals.
The. means by which this improvement is carried into effect consists in
applying sulphuric acid to the said tools when operating upon the said vitreous
substances in the same manner as oil is usually employed in lubricating the
said tools when operating in a similar manner on metals.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Maudslay, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Third day of June, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-nine.
HENDY MATINST AV
HENRY MAUDSTAV
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