IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF BAKING DISHES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Roberts Morley, of Woodbridge, in the
County of Suffolk, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF BAKING DISHES."
Sealed the 15th March 1861, and dated the 20th September 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Roberts Morley at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th September 1860.
I, JOSEPH ROBERTS MORLEY, of Woodbridge, in the County of Suffolk, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF BAKING DISHES," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to render baking dishes generally less liable
to crack when exposed to the heat of the oven in which they are placed, and is
effected by forming the bottom and portion of the sides of the dish of a soft.
unglazed clay, or any description of clay that will not "fly" by heat. Also
by forming the bottom edge of the dish in scollops, thereby shaping it into feet
so that the dish being raised slightly from the bottom of the oven by the said
scollops or feet a current of hot air is allowed to circulate beneath and
around it.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Roberts Morley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 20th March 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
ROBERTS MORLEY, of Woodbridge, in the County of Suffolk, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Joseph Roberts Morley, Her special licence that I, the said
Joseph Roberts Morley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Joseph Roberts Morley, 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 for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BAKING DISHES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Roberts Morley, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their 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
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Roberts Morley, 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 follow-
ing statement, that is to say:-
The object of this Invention is to render baking dishes generally less liable
to crack when exposed to the heat of the oven in which they are placed.
In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same
into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of Drawings
hereto annexed, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference marked
thereon respectively as follows:―

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a side view of the dish, and Fig. 2, a longitudinal and vertical
section; similar letters of reference denoting corresponding parts at each of
the Figures.
The Drawing shews a dish made in two descriptions of clay, the lower part a
being made of soft unglazed clay or any other description that will stand the
heat of an oven without "flying." The bottom edge b is to be formed with any
suitable number of scollops c, which thereby allow of the bottom of the dish
being slightly raised, and permits a current of air to circulate beneath and
around it. Or these dishes may be made of one and the same clay, leaving
the lower part unglazed.
Having now described the nature and objects of my said Invention of
Improvements in the Manufacture of Baking Dishes," and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would remark in conclusion that I do not
confine myself to any particular description of clay to be used, as any will
answer the purpose that will stand heat without cracking, nor to any number
of "scollops" to be formed around the bottom edge, but what I claim as
my Invention intended to be secured to me by the herein in part recited
Letters Patent is the manufacture of baking dishes in the manner herein
described and shewn by the accompanying Drawing for the purposes herein
set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Roberts Morley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
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Witness,
JOSEPH ROBERTS MORLEY. (L.S.)
HORACE NEALE, Grocer,
Woodbridge.