A NEW MODE OF SUPPLYING PURE WATER TO. CITIES AND TOWNS
Year: 1849

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, .I, HENRY
LAMPLOUGH, of Snow Hill, in the City of London, Consulting Chemist, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine, in the thirteenth year of Her reign, did give
and grant unto me, the said Henry Lamplough, my exors, adñors, and
assigns, Her. especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
I, the said Henry Lamplough, 'my exors, adññors, and assigns, and such
others as I, the said Henry Lamplough, my exors, admors, and 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 mentioned, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and. Ireland. called England, the Dominion of Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW MODE OF SUPPLYING
PURE WATER TO. CITIES AND TOWNS;" in which said Letters Patent there is
amongst others contained a proviso that if I, the said Henry Lamplough, shall

page_text: 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 enrolled in Her
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, that then
the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as by the said
Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said recited proviso, I,
the said Henry Lamplough, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, and the Drawing therein
referred to and hereunto annexed.
My method of supplying water consists in causing it to pass through
a system of pipes and syphons, so arranged and combined in connection
with the source of supply, and suitable intermediate reservoirs, that the
water may be supplied as required, without pollutions or contamination
from extraneous causes. The arrangements for this purposè are shewn in
the accompaning Drawings, which represent longitudinal and transverse
sections of the line of pipes employed for the purpose. These pipes which
may be of iron; glass, or other suitable material, are to be laid upon
or by the side of a railway, canal, road, or in any other convenient situation,
and are to be joined together in some of the various methods ordinarily
employed. The filling and working of syphon pipes is well understood,
and in the event of its being necessary to pass the water over any elevation
exceeding thirty feet, propulsion by, artificial means in connection with the
system of syphons may be resorted to; but I make no claim to the use
of such artificial means, except in connexion with a system of syphon
pipes combined and arranged as above described for the purpose of sup-
plying water to towns. And I hereby declare my Invention to consist
in combining and arranging a series of pipes, reservoirs, and syphons, in the
manner above described and represented for the purpose of conducting water
to towns.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry. Lamplough, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Sixteenth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty.
HENRY (L.S.) LAMPLOUGH.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1850, the aforesaid Henry Lamplough came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty.