A METHOD OF PRESERVING PAPERS AND OTHER PROPERTY FROM BEING INJURED BY FIRE
Year: 1801

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
SCOTT, of Chapel House, in the County of Sussex, Lieutenant-Colonel in the
Service of the Honorable East India Company, send greeting.
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WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain and Ireland,
bearing date at Westminster, the Tenth day of February, 'in the forty-first
year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Richard Scott, His
especial licence that I, the said Richard Scott, during the term of years
therein mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A
METHOD OF PRESERVING PAPERS AND OTHER PROPERTY FROM BEING INJURED BY
FIRE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging
me, the said Richard Scott, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my 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, I, the said
Richard Scott, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
manner following (that is to say):-My Invention consists of a box or chest ;
the dimensions may be various; the outside of the box to be of iron, or
any other metal or mixture of metals, to be formed into an oblong or square

page_text: and the corners of the plates welded or united, so as to exclude as much as
possible the air; this outside metal case to be lined with wood, either in its
proper state, as oak or other plank, or the same char'd, and afterwards steeped
or soaked in a preparation of alkaline salt dissolved in water; the outer case
to be of plate, the strength according to the size of the box, the lining of
wood, to be in the same proportion; an inner lining to enclose the wood,
of iron or other metal, close welded or jointed, and to confine and unite the
outside box with the wood or char'd lining into one close and solid box, with a
lid to turn upon points or pivots.at each end, or other hinges, and the lid con-
structed in the same manner as the other parts of the box. This box is to
contain a second or inner box, to be inclosed in the outer, and to stand upon pins
or points of metal at the corners, so as to keep the two boxes apart from each
other, and at distances in proportion to the size, supported by the feet, points,
or pins at every corner or side, so as to keep the two boxes at an equal dis-
tance from each other on all sides; the outer box may be locked by an
external or padlock, or by a lock of the kind usually put to iron chests.
In witness whereof,. I; the said, Richard Scott, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and one.
RICH SCOTT. (L.S.)
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AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same: Seventh day of August,
in the year above. mentioned, the aforesaid Richard Scott came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification: afore-
said, and all and every thing. therein contained, in form above. written.... And
also the Specification aforesaid. was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided. .
Inrolled the Eighth day of August, in the year above written.