IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SKY-LIGHTS AND ROOF-LIGHTS FOR RAILWAY STATIONS, CONSERVATORIES, AND OTHER SIMILAR STRUCTURES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Agate, of Hornsey, in the County of
Middlesex, Plumber and Builder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SKY-LIGHTS AND ROOF-LIGHTS FOR RAILWAY STATIONS,
CONSERVATORIES, AND OTHER SIMILAR STRUCTURES."
Sealed the 7th January 1864, and dated the 9th July 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Agate at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th
July 1863.
I, ROBERT AGATE, of Hornsey, in the County of Middlesex, Plumber and
Builder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SKY-LIGHTS AND ROOF-LIGHTS FOR RAILWAY
STATIONS; CONSERVATORIES; AND OTHER SIMILAR STRUCTURES," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to prevent the water which passes through
the cracks of putty, and under the glass of skylights or other similar lights.
from dropping into the rooms or other places over which such skylights or
roofs are placed.
This Invention consists: in making or grooving a longitudinal groove or
recess in the lower part of the bar or rafter, on which the glass is placed,
so that when the water passes through the cracks that will arise in glazed.
roofs, such water will pass or drop into the groove or channel placed below, as
before mentioned, and thence conveyed outside the building or structure by

page_text: any suitable contrivance. The above-mentioned bar, rafter, or the frame-
work can be made of wood, metal or any other suitable material. By this
plan water is effectually stopped from passing into the building, conservatory,
or other structure, and prevented from dropping or injuring any objects that
may be placed underneath.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Agate in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th January 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
AGATE, of Hornsey, in the County of Middlesex, Plumber and Builder, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Niuth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Robert Agate, Her special licence that I, the said Robert Agate, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert
Agate, 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 CONSTRUCTION OF SKY-LIGHTS AND ROOF-LIGHTS FOR RAILWAY STATIONS,
CONSERVATORIES, AND OTHER SIMILAR STRUCTURES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Robert Agate, 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 Robert Agate 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
following statement :—
The object of this Invention is to prevent the water which passes through
the cracks of putty, and under the glass of skylights or other similar lights,
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page_text: from dropping into the rooms or other places over which such. skylights or
roofs are placed.
This Invention consists in making or grooving a longitudinal groove or
recess, or channel, in the lower part of the bar or rafter, on which the glass is
placed, so that when the water passes through the cracks that will arise in glazed
roofs, such water will pass or drop into the groove or recess or channel placed
below as before mentioned, and thence conveyed outside the building or
structure by any suitable contrivance. The above mentioned bar, rafter or
the framework can be made of wood, metal, or any other suitable material.
By this plan water is effectually stopped from passing into the building,
conservatory, or other structure, and prevented from dropping on or injuring
any objects that may be placed underneath.
ROBERT AGATE \