A MACHINE CALLED A TEA FOUNTAIN, CON- STRUCTED SO AS TO ANSWER THE PURPOSES OF A TEAPOT AND BOILER TOGETHER, AND WILL FILL ANY NUMBER OF CUPS OR OTHER VESSELS ALMOST INSTANTANEOUSLY WITH- OUT THE TROUBLE OF POURING OUT;
Year: 1774

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WADHAM, of the Parish of Saint George in the East, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said John Wadham, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty that I had, after much
labour and expence, invented "A MACHINE CALLED A TEA FOUNTAIN, CON-
STRUCTED SO AS TO ANSWER THE PURPOSES OF A TEAPOT AND BOILER TOGETHER, AND
WILL FILL ANY NUMBER OF CUPS OR OTHER VESSELS ALMOST INSTANTANEOUSLY WITH-
OUT THE TROUBLE OF POURING OUT;" and that in regard I was the first and true
Inventor thereof, and thought the same would be of great utility, I there-
fore most humbly besought His said Majesty that He would be graciously
pleased to grant unto me, my exors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal
Letters Patent for the sole use and benefit of my said Invention within that
part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His
Colonies and Plantations abroad, for the term of fourteen years, according
to the Statute in that case made and provided; His said Majesty being willing
to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for the
publick good was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and therefore,
by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh
day of July, in the fourteenth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer motion, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said John Wadham, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said John Wadham, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every

page_text: of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John Wadham, my executors,
administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said
Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain.
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and also in His Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to me, the
said John Wadham, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us,
should in our discretions seem meet; and that I, the said John Wadham,
my executors, administrors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and
enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time
coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for
and durnig the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and
enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages therein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said John Wadham, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which Letters Patent is contained
a proviso that if I, the said John Wadham, should not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and
cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within four calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advan-
tages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become
void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary in anywise notwith-
standing, as in and by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had)
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Wadham, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention
in manner following (that is to say) :-
:-
The said tea fountain is composed of three parts (that is) a boiler, a teapot,
and stand, to be made of every or either kind of metal. The water is kept
boiling by an iron extended in the midst of it. The boiler stands on the top,
or at one side of the teapot, and is so united that by means of a cock, screw, or
valve, it emits the water to make the tea; the water is also drawn out of the
same (or another) cock for other uses. The tea is conducted, through a tube

page_text: or tubes, to any number of cups, all which fill at the same time by means of a
cock, screw, or valve, and by turning the cock more or less fill the number
of cups to serve any company, from one to sixteen (or more if required); and
the said machine is to be made also with small cocks, one to each tube,
in order to stop them as occasion requires. The stand supports the said
teapot and boiler, with the tea cups, &c. raises the tubes to a proper height
for cups (or other vessels) to stand under, and renders the whole ornamental
and agreeable to the sight. The teapot is to be made without (as well as
with) the boiler, and will be equally usefull for either tea, coffee, chocolate,
punch, wine, or any kind of liquor, and is to be made, for that purpose, of
china, earth, glass, &c. as well as of the metals.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Wadham, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, and in the
fifteenth year
of the reign of our said Sovereign Lord George the Third,
by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, and so forth.
JOHN WADHAM. (L.B.)
Sealed and delivered, (being first duly
stampt, in the presence of
BIGOE HENZELL.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Twenty-first day of November,
in the year last above written, the said John Wadham came before the 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 stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Twenty-first day of November, in the year above
written.