A NEW METHOD OB. WAY OF STOWING CARGOES OP SHIPS AND OTHER VESSELS BY MEANS OF PACKAGES: FOR CONTAINING GOODS AND PRODUCTS OF CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS DESTINED FOR CON- VEYANCE BY SEA, NOT HITHERTO EMPLOYED
Year: 1808

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, RICHARD
TREVITHICK, of Rotherhithe, in the County of Surrey, Engineer, and ROBERT
DICKINSON, of Great Queen Street, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire,
send greeting.
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 Thirty-first day of October,
in the forty-ninth year of His reign, give and grant unto us, the said Richard
Trevithick and Robert Dickinson, our executors, adñiors, and assigns, His espe-
cial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said Richard
Trevithick and Robert Dickinson, our executors, admors, or assigns, should,
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention of "A NEW METHOD OB.
WAY OF STOWING CARGOES OP SHIPS AND OTHER VESSELS BY MEANS OF PACKAGES:
FOR CONTAINING GOODS AND PRODUCTS OF CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS DESTINED FOR CON-
VEYANCE BY SEA, NOT HITHERTO EMPLOYED;" in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso, obliging us, or one of us, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, to cause a
particular description of the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, 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, we, the said
Richard Trevithick and Robert Dickinson, do hereby declare that the nature

page_text: of our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
are particularly described and ascertained as follow, that is to say :-
Instead of the packages, cases, chests, trunks, casks, vessels, or other
receptacles heretofore and commonly used for the purpose of containing;
enveloping, preserving, and securing from damage the several articles of
merchandize and other goods, whether in the solid and consistent or in the
liquid form, which are taken and stowed on board ships and other vessels to
be transported or consumed, or otherwise used and applied, we do construct,
make, use, and apply certain other packages, vessels, or receptacles of iron,
made by casting the said metal, or by forging, laminating, and rivetting
together plates or portions of the said metal, with covers adapted to and
capable of being secured by screws, bolts, or other known means, to the said
vessels or receptacles, so as to render the same (when shut) close, secure, and
impenetrable to the external air or moisture, or other hurtful matters and
things. And farther, wo do make our said packages, vessels, or receptacles of
such figures or forms that they fit exteriorly to each other without that waste
of space which takes place in the stowage of wooden casks. For this purpose
different forms may be used, but we prefer rectangular or hexagonal prism
forms to all others. Where the same economy of room is not requisite, we
employ the cylindric form, but whichever form be employed a much larger
quantity of goods can be stowed by means of our Invention than can be
stowed in an equal space when the goods are put into packages made of wood,
the sides and ends of which are necessarily of a great thickness compared with
those made of iron. Nor is saving of room the only advantage which results
from our aforesaid invention. Water, oil, and various other fluids, as well as
provisions of different kinds, will be better preserved from waste, putrescency,
leakage, depredations from insects and other living creatures, in iron vessels
than in vessels made of wood. For some purposes we have our said iron
packages, vessels, and other receptacles tinned on the inside, or coated with a
varnish suited to the commodities they are destined to contain.
By our said Invention great advantages as to space and comfort will be
afforded to those on board ships, without any detriment, but rather with
advantage, to the proper trim of carrying sail, and the safe and expeditious
performance of their respective voyages.
In witness whereof, we, the said Richard Trevithick and Robert Dick-
inson, have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Twenty-eighth day of
April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and nine.
RICHARD TREVITRICK. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of April,
in the forty-ninth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the said Richard Trevithick and Robert Dickinson came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the instrument aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained 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.