AN IMPROVED COACH, CHARIOTT, AND OTHER CARRIAGE LAMP, ON A NEW PRINCIPLE
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
BLACK, of George Street, Grosvenor Square, in the County of Middlesex,
Carriage Lamp Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Benjamin Black, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I had,
after much labour, study, and expence, found out and invented and was in
possession of "AN IMPROVED COACH, CHARIOTT, AND OTHER CARRIAGE LAMP, ON A
NEW PRINCIPLE," and that the same had never been made or used by any
other person or persons, to the best of my knowledge and belief, I humbly
prayed His said Majesty to grant unto me, my exors, adññors, and assigns,
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, for the
sole use, benefit, and advantage of my said Invention, within that part of His
Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term
of fourteen years, pursuant to the Statute in that case made and provided; His
said Majesty being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions
that might be for the public good, was graciously pleased to condesend to
my request; and therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of June, in the fifty-second year of His
reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, did give and
grant unto me, the said Benjamin Black, my exors, admors, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
Benjamin Black, my exors, admors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself

page_text: and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents,
or such others as I, the said Benjmin Black, my exors, adors, or assigns,
should at any time agree agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that
part of His Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in
such manner as to me, the said Benjamin Black, my exors, adiñors, and
assigns, or any of them, should in my or their discretion seem nieet; and that
I, the said Benjamin Black, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, should and lawfully
might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage
from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising, by reason of the
said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned; to have,
hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Benjamin
Black, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that if I, the said Benjamin Black, should 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 inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, anything therein contained to the contrary thereof in any-
wise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being
thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin Black, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and declare that the Plan thereof, drawn in the margin of these
Presents, is composed of the following particulars (that is to say) :-
No. 1 is a barrel, within which is contained another barrel, No. 2, holding
the candle or oil, and the spring No. 7, and between which two barrels a
space is left for air to pass into the glass conductor No. 3, by means of holes
made in the barrel No. 1, carrying off through the top of the lamp the
smoke made, and which not only keeps a brilliant steady light, but prevents
the external air from extinguishing the flame, as is often the case in lamps

page_text: of the common construction, and also keeps the reflectors and external
glasses from being darkened by the smoke. No. 4 is a strong plate glass
bottom to lamp (with a hole in the center through which pass the barrels
No. 1 and 2) for the purpose of permitting the light to be reflected down-
wards over the fore wheels of a carriage, as well as in front. No. 5 is a
circle of metal passing round the top, through which the glass conductor
(No. 3) passes, fastened at the top by screw, &c., at the side, in order to
keep the glass conductor in a proper position. No. 6 is the bottom of the
lamp, on which is raised springs to confine the class conductor. No. 7 is a
spring contained in the barrel No. 2. No. 8 is the frame of the lamp. No. 9
is the lamp as it appears when complete.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Black, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twentieth day of August, in the fifty-second
year of the reign of His said most Excellent Majesty George the
Third, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twelve.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of August,
in the year of our Lord 1812, the aforesaid Benjamin Black came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.