IMPROVEMENTS IN CAGES FOR BIRDS, SQUIRRELS, AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Mohr and Samuel Edmonds Smith, of
Birmingham, iu the County of Warwick, Wireworkers, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CAGES FOR BIRDS, SQUIRRELS, AND OTHER
ANIMALS."
Sealed the 2nd May 1865, and dated the 11th November 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Mohr and
Samuel Edmonds Smith at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 11th November 1864.
We, CHARLES MOHR and SAMUEL EDMONDS SMITH, of Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Wireworkers, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CAGES FOR BIRDS, SQUIRRELS, AND
OTHER ANIMALS," to be as follows, that is to say:
This Invention consists in forming the bottoms of these cages of china,
porcelain, glass, earthenware, or enamelled metal. These bottoms are capable
of being removed and washed, and they may be fixed when in use by any con-
venient mode of fastening, such as by looped wires from the cage passing
through holes in the bottom, and secured underneath by a hook or catch, or
for rectangular cages they may be slid into grooves formed to receive them in
the bottom edge of the cage; the bottom thus admits of being readily cleansed,
and the health of the animals is consequently improved.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Mohr and Samuel Edmonds Smith in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 10th May 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
MOHR and SAMUEL EDMONDS SMITH, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Wireworkers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto us, the said Charles Mohr and Samuel Edmonds Smith, Her special
licence that we, the said Charles Mohr and Samuel Edmonds Smith, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Charles
Mohr and Samuel Edmonds Smith, our 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 for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CAGES FOR BIRDS, SQUIRRELS, AND OTHER
ANIMALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Charles
Mohr and Samuel Edmonds Smith, by an instrument in writing under our
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 a
Patent.
NOW KNOW, YE, that we, the said Charles Mohr and Samuel Edmonds
Smith, do hereby declare the nature of our said. Invention,, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be, particularly described and ascer-
tained in and. by the following statement, reference being had to the s
Drawings hereunto. annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon
(that is to say): --
This Invention consists in forming. the bottom of these cages of china,
porcelain, glass, earthenware, or. enamalled metal. These bottoms are
capable of being removed and washed, and they may be fixed when in use by,
any convenient mode of fastening,' such as by looped wires from the cage
passing through holes in the bottom, and secured underneath by a hook or
catch, or for rectangular cages they may be slid into grooves formed to receive

page_text: them in the bottom edge of the cage. The bottom thus admits of being
readily cleansed, and the health of the animals is consequently improved.
The annexed Drawings represent, in plan and elevation, a birdcage con-
structed according to our Invention.
(a) is the wirework of the cage formed in the ordinary manner and circular
on plan, though the shape may of course be varied; (b) is the bottom made
of porcelain, china, glass, earthenware, or enamelled metal or slate. We
prefer to employ porcelain, which may be plain or enriched by painting or
gilding according to taste. In this bottom are pierced holes (c), through
which pass the loops (d) formed on the wirework or lower rim of the cage;
in these loops ornamental fastenings (e) engage, and thus keep the cage and
the bottom together, being readily removed when it is required to release the
bottom for cleansing.
False bottoms made of any of the above-mentioned materials may also be
employed in conjunction with wood or metal bottoms if it be necessary to avoid
the possibility of fracture.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, we claim, without limiting ourselves to
these precise details, the improvements in cages for birds, squirrels, and other
animals by forming the bottoms of such cages either wholly or partly of china,
porcelain, glass, earthenware, enamelled metal, or slate, as herein more fully
set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, we, the said Charles Mohr and Samuel Edmonds
Smith have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Ninth day of
May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five.