IMPROVEMENTS IN MONUMENTS, FOUNTAINS, LAMPS, LETTER-BOXES, URINALS, AND SUCH LIKE ORNAMENTAL AND PUBLIC ERECTIONS IN CAST IRON
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Smith, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Ironfounder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MONUMENTS, FOUNTAINS, LAMPS, LETTER-BOXES, URINALS, AND SUCH LIKE
ORNAMENTAL AND PUBLIC ERECTIONS IN CAST IRON."
Sealed the 24th July 1860, and dated the 31st January 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Smith at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
31st January 1860.
I, GEORGE SMITH, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
Ironfounder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MONUMENTS, FOUNTAINS, LAMPS, LETTER-BOXES, URINALS, AND SUCH LIKE
ORNAMENTAL AND PUBLIC ERECTIONS IN CAST IRON," to be as follows, that is
to say :-
This Invention relates to novel and improved applications of cast iron in
monumental, ornamental, and public erections of various kinds, and to im-
provements in details in connection with such applications.
In employing cast iron in the construction of monuments for graves and
other places, suitable recesses or fixtures are provided for receiving panels or

page_text: tablets of marble, stone, or other material, upon which inscriptions can be
produced with comparative facility, and after the erection of the monument.
An improvement in connection with cast-iron fountains and lamps consists
in combining a fountain with a lamp pillar, having five branches or lamps in
one erection and design.
An improvement in connection with cast-iron lamps and street letter-boxes
consists in combining a lamp-pillar having one or more branches or lamps,
with a letter box in one erection and design.
In forming cast-iron walls or enclosures for enclosed urinals and similar
erections according to this Invention, the panels and frame or pillar portions
are cast together, and the separate pieces are united by means of spigot and
faucet joints in the pillar or frame parts, which parts are tubular, the joints
being keyed or not, as may be required. The joint lines are covered by beads
or mouldings on the edges of the joints, the bead or moulding being cast on
the outside of one piece and on the inside of the other piece.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th July 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
SMITH, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Ironfounder,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said George Smith, Her special licence that I, the said
George Smith, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said George Smith, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MONUMENTS, FOUNTAINS, LAMPS, LETTER-BOXES,
URINAIS, AND SUCH LIKE ORNAMENTAL AND PUBLIC ERECTIONS IN CAST IRON," upon

page_text: the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Smith, my exccu-
tors 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 per-
formed, 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 George Smith, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement in writing, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings,
and to the letters and figures marked thercon, that is to say :-
My said Invention relates to novel and improved applications of cast iron
in monumental, ornamental, and public erections of various kinds, and to
improvements in details in connection with such applications.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood and
carried into effect, I have hereunto appended a Sheet of explanatory Drawings,
representing examples of the application of my improvements, to which
Drawings I shall refer in particularly describing the said improvements, as
follows:-
In employing cast iron according to the first part of the present Invention,
in the construction of monuments for graves and other places, suitable recesses
or fixtures are provided for receiving panels, or tablets of marble, stone, or
other material or composition, upon which inscriptions can be produced with
comparative facility, either before or after the erection of the monument.
Figure 1 on the Sheet of Drawings is a front elevation of a grave monument
of simple design, constructed according to this portion of my Invention.
What may be termed the framework A of the monument is of cast iron,
whilst the inscription plate or panel B is of stone or other material or com-
O position upon which the inscriptions can be easily cut or produced, and upon
which additional inscriptions can at any time be formed. It will be obvious
that various arrangements may be adopted for holding, retaining, or fixing the
inscription plates or tablets, and that the general design of such monuments
may bo variod in many ways, and so as to receive the inscription plate in
various positions. Such monumental erections, whilst consisting principally of
cast iron, may also be arranged to receive panels or tablets of stone or other
material or composition not specially intended for inscriptions.
An improvement forming the second part of this Invention relates to cast-

page_text: iron fountains and lamps, and consists in combining a fountain with a lamp
pillar having five branches or lamps in one erection and design, as shown in
Figure 2 of the accompanying Drawings. It must, however, be observed that
the ornamental design may be varied in different cases.
An improvement forming the third portion of this Invention relates to cast-
iron lamps and street letter-boxes, and consists in combining a lamp pillar
having one or more branches or lamps with a letter box in one erection and
design. As an example, a lamp pillar letter-box with a single lamp is
represented in Figure 3 of the accompanying Drawings. Any suitable
ornamental design may be adopted in each case.
In forming cast-iron walls or enclosures for enclosed urinals and similar crec-
tions according to the fourth portion of this Invention, the panels and frame
or pillar portions are cast together, and the separate pieces are united or con-
nected together by means of spigot and faucet joints in the pillar or frame parts,
which parts are tubular, the joints being keyed or otherwise secured, as may
be required. Figure 4 on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings is a front
elevation of a five-celled urinal, being an example of the class of cast-iron
erections to which this part of the Invention refers; Figure 5 is a horizontal
section or sectional plan; Figures 6, 7, and 8, are enlarged views, showing the
improved mode of connecting or attaching the several pieces, Figures 6 and 7
being elevations of the lower part of one casting, and of the upper part of the
adjacent casting, and Figure 8 being a plan or edge view, corresponding, to
Figure 7. The frame or pillar portions C, which may be cylindrical or of
other ornamental or convenient form, have portions of the panels or inter-
mediate portions D cast upon them, whilst the joint lines are covered by beads
or mouldings E, F, on the joint edges, one bead or moulding E being cast on
the outside of one piece, and the other F on the inside of the other piece.
The inside moulding F is formed with snugs G for the reception of screws to
fix the pieces together.
Having thus particularly described my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is or may be used or carried into effect, I have to state, in
conclusion, that I do not restrict myself to the precise details herein described
or delineated; but that what I consider to be novel and original, and claim
as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent, is,
First, the constructing of monuments of cast iron, combined with panels,
tablets, or plates of marble, stone, or other material or composition, substan-
tially as herein-before described.

page_text: Second, the combining in one erection and design of a fountain with a lamp
pillar having five branches or lamps, as herein-before described.
Third, the combining in one erection and design of a lamp pillar having one
or more branches or lamps with a letter-box, as herein-before described.
Fourth, the constructing and putting together of the parts of cast-iron
erections, such as urinals, substantially in the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Smith, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
EDMUND HUNT, Patent Agent,
28, St. Enoch Square, Glasgow.
GEO. SMITH. (L.S.)