A MODE OF FIXING AND SETTING AN ALARUM OR ALARM BELL, SO CONTRIVED AS TO ALARM AND AWAKEN FAMILIES IN CASE OF FIRE BREAKING OUT, OR THIEVES ENTERING THE HOUSE BY NIGHT OR DAY, WHICH I CONCEIVE WILL BE OF GREAT PUBLIC UTILITY AND PECULIARLY CALCULATED TO SAVE AND PROTECT THE LIVES AND PROPERTY OF HIS MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
SMITH, of Red Lion Street, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Smith,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of
August last, in the forty-second year of His reign, give and grant unto me,
the said Joseph Smith, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Joseph Smith, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Smith, my executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, 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 MODE OF
FIXING AND SETTING AN ALARUM OR ALARM BELL, SO CONTRIVED AS TO ALARM AND
AWAKEN FAMILIES IN CASE OF FIRE BREAKING OUT, OR THIEVES ENTERING THE
HOUSE BY NIGHT OR DAY, WHICH I CONCEIVE WILL BE OF GREAT PUBLIC UTILITY AND
PECULIARLY CALCULATED TO SAVE AND PROTECT THE LIVES AND PROPERTY OF HIS
MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a pro-
viso obliging me, the said Joseph Smith, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my.
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause

page_text: as set or fixed in spring catches; W, W, the sliding cutter (as letter S)
affixed to doors, one on the left represents the line cut and alarum going; the
one on the right hand, the line fixed to the alarum and uncut; X, X, X,
X, X, eyes affixed in shutters to receive a pin, as letter Y. Y, Y, Y, pins to
slip into eyes, as represented by letter ✗, to which is connected a line com-
municating to the catch as letters R, R; from K, K, L, L, are trained
wires, and a prepared line to communicate, as occasion may require, to what-
ever room or office a fire may be likely to commence in, and, on the line being
burnt as under, the alarm is immediately set going, as represented by K, K;
and to prevent burglaries the line from the springs in the alarum is trained to
doors, Z, windows and shutters, as above represented, so that on their being
opened or moved as at V, on the left hand of the Drawing, the alarum must
inevitably go off; Z, the section of the spring catch R, R*.
And this I declare to be the Specification of my said Invention, in
of the proviso contained in the said Patent.
pursuance
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Smith, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Sixteenth day of September, in the forty-second
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord 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 thou-
sand eight hundred and two.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Sixteenth day of Sep-
Otember, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Joseph Smith came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, 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 same Sixteenth day of September, in the year above written.