PROVEMENTS IN JARS, BOTTLES, AND OTHER VESSELS USED FOR CONTAINING IM- PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION OR TRANSPORTING OILS, VARNISHES, SPIRITS, AND OTHER LIKE FLUIDS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Llewellyn Ryland, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of “
PROVEMENTS IN JARS, BOTTLES, AND OTHER VESSELS USED FOR CONTAINING
IM-
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Llewellyn
Ryland at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with liis
Petition, on the 16th December 1875.
I, JOHN LLEWELLYN RYLAND, of Birmingliam, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN JARS, BOTTLES, AND OTHER VESSELS USED FOR
CONTAINING OR TRANSPORTING OILS, VARNISHES, SPIRITS, AND OTHER LIKE FLUIDS,"
to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention refers to jars, bottles, carboys, casks, drums, and other
vessels employed in containing or removing oils, varnishes, spirits, and
other like fluids, and it consists in certain means of protecting them

page_text: from accident, from breakage, fire, or otherwise. This I effect by
surrounding the jar or other vessel with a casing of sheet iron, or
either plain, tinned, or galvanized, or of sheet zinc, and I make this
casing for some purposes larger than the vessel, so that a space will
exist between the vessel and this casing, and this space I fill, if 5
requisite, with sawdust or with a mixture of alum and sawdust, or with
any other suitable packing which will act as a further protection to the
inner vessel, and in some cases prove a guard against the action of fire.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Llewellyn Rylands in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 15th June 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
LLEWELLYN RYLAND, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Llewellyn Ryland,
Her special license that I, the said John Llewellyn Ryland, my, exe-
..cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Llewellyn Ryland, 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 makė, usė, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN JARS, BOTTLES, AND OTHER
VESSELS USED FOR CONTAINING OR TRANSPORTING OILS, VARNISHES, SPIRITS, AND
OTHER LIKE FLUIDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
John Llewellyn Ryland, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
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page_text: 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 John Llewellyn Ryland, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and asceṛ-
tained in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention refers to jars, bottles, carboys, casks, drums, and other
vessels employed in containing or removing oils, varnishes, spirits, and
other like fluids, and it consists in certain means of protecting them
from accident, from breakage, fire, or otherwise. This I effect by sur-
rounding the jar or other vessel with a casing of sheet iron, either plain,
turned, or galvanised, or of sheet zinc, and I make this casing for some
purposes larger than the vessel, so that a space will exist between the
vessel and the casing, and this space I fill, if requisite, with sawdust or
with a mixture of alum and sawdust, or with any other suitable packing,
which will act as a further protection to the inner vessel, and in some
cases prove a guard against the action of fire.
I claim the several improvements in protecting jars, bottles, and other
vessels used for containing or transporting oils, varnishes, spirits, and
other like fluids, as herein more fully described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Llewellyn Ryland, have
.
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Fourteenth day of June, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.
JOHN LEWELLYN RYLAND. (L.S.)