IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BIRDCAGES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Dobson and Daniel Pearce, of Saint James
Street, in the County of Middlesex, Glass Manufacturers, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BIRDCAGES."
Sealed the 29th April 1859, and dated the 1st November 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Dobson and Daniel
Pearce at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 1st November 1858.
We, JOHN DOBSON and DANIEL PEARCE, of Saint James Street, in the
County of Middlesex, Glass Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BIRDCAGES," to
be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of birdcages in glass, either by
itself or in combination with wood, metal, or other suitable material.
We propose using pipes, tubes, or rods of glass, plain or colored, or both,
in place of wire hitherto used, the lower part and frame being made of any
required material.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Dobson and Daniel Pearce in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 30th April 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
DOBSON and DANIEL PEARCE, of Saint James Street, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Glass Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of November, 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 us,
the said John Dobson and Daniel Pearce, Her special licence that we, the
said John Dobson and Daniel Pearce, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said John Dobson and Daniel Pearce, our exe-
cutors, 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF BIRD-
CAGES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said John Dobson
and Daniel Pearce, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of
one of us or them, 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 Daniel Pearce, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of birdcages in glass, either by
itself or in combination with wood, metal, or other suitable material.
We propose using pipes, tubes, or rods of glass, plain or colored, or both, in
place of wire hitherto used. The lower part and frame being made of any
required material.
In order to explain our said Invention as completely as possible, we now
proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect as follows:-
Instead of using wire or ribs of wood as is the common practice in cage

page_text: making, we make the upper and lower parts with the frame, either of glass,
wood, or other suitable material, and insert pipes, tubes, or rods of glass,
either plain or coloured, or mixed according to taste:
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of our said
Invention of "Improvements in the Manufacture of Birdcages," together with
the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the same into practical
effect, we would remark in conclusion that what we claim as our Invention
intended to be secured to us by the herein in part recited Letters Patent is,
the manufacturing of birdcages either wholly or partially of glass in the
manner herein described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Pearce, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE, Patent Agent,
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.
DANIEL PEARCE. (L.S.)