IMPROVEMENTS IN. WAYNES AND COOK
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Mayo, of Berners Street, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN.
WAYNES AND COOK"
Scaled the 25th January 1853, and duted the 7th December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Mayo
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 7th December 1852.
I, WILLIAM MAYO, of Berners Street, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BALLS OR FLOAT VALVES AND Cocks," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of employing hollow glass floats in com-
bination with the arms or stems of such valves and cocks; such arms
or stems being fixed by casting metal on to the glass floats, or
otherwise.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Mayo in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 7th June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM MAYO, of Berners Street, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two,
in the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Mayo, Her
special licence that I, the said William Mayo, my executors, admi..
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Mayo,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agrec
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 BALL OR FLOAT VALVES, OR COCKS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Mayo, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, 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 William Mayo, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
This Invention consists of employing hollow glass floats in com-
bination with the arms or stems of such valves and cocks; such
arms or stems being fixed by casting metal on to the glass or float,
or otherwise.
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood,
and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means
pursued by me.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows a float of glass, with a metal arm cast thereon,
suitable for a float, or ball cock or valve.
Figure 2, shows an another arrangement of ball and arm, where
the arm is simply attached to a knob on the ball or float.
And I would state, that the form of the hollow float of glass, and
also the arm of metal, may be varied, and different ineans of attaching
the arm to the ball or float may be resorted to; but I believe the
means shown at Figures 1, and 2, to be the best for carrying out
my Invention. The arms shewn are suitable to be applied to the
square ends of ordinary plug cocks; but a workman will readily
vary the form thereof when to be used with other arrangements of
float valves or cocks.
In Figure 1, a, is a hollow glass float, on to which an arm b, of
tin, is cast in like manner to that in which tin has been before cast
on glass, and as was fully described by me in the Specification of a
former Patent, and to which I now lay no claim; such casting
consisting of placing the end of the glass portion of the stem in a
mould, and then pouring tin into the mould, which will adhere to the
glass. In Figure 2, a, is a hollow glass float, which is blown with
a knob; to which the arm of metal b, is attached, by means of the
end of the arm being bent round, and then held by the link c.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that
what I claim is, the employment of glass floats in combination with
the arms of ball or float valves, or cocks, as herein explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Mayo, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
WM. MAYO. (L.S.)