IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKAGES OR RECEPTACLES FOR SULPHURIC ACID
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Holden Davis, of the Firm of Golding,
Davis, and Company, of Widnes, in the County of Lancaster, Alkali
Manufacturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKAGES OR
RECEPTACLES FOR SULPHURIC ACID."
Sealed the 11th April 1871, and dated the 14th October 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Holden Davis
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 14th October 1870.
I, RICHARD HOLDEN DAVIS, of the Firm of Golding, Davis, and
Company, of Widnes, in the County of Lancaster, Alkali Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PACKAGES OR RECEPTACLES FOR SULPHURIC ACID," to be as follows:-
There has hitherto been considerable difficulty in the shipment, transit,
or carriage of sulphuric acid, because it has been usually enclosed in
glass carboys, which being very liable to break have been obliged in the
case of ships or other vessels to be placed on deck.
Now the object of my Invention is to make a package or receptacle
which shall be perfectly safe, and therefore enable it to be stowed
without danger with ordinary cargo on board ship or elsewhere.

page_text: My Invention consists in lining any ordinary cask or barrel with lead
and in burning or soldering the seams with an ordinary burning machine
such as is used by chemical plumbers; or in constructing a cast leaden
vessel suited to the shape of the outer wooden covering so that the lead
may be protected from injury; or in constructing a cast leaden vessel of
such size in relation to the outer wooden covering that a space may be
left between them which may be filled with sawdust or other analogous
material. When the acid has been introduced into the lined cask
or cast leaden vessel I close up the vessel by burning or soldering
upon the head a capping of lead with or without a screwed capsule of
incorrodible metal.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Holden Davis in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 14th April 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
HOLDEN DAVIS, of the Firm of Golding, Davis, and Company, of Widnes,
in the County of Lancaster, Alkali Manufacturers, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Richard Holden Davis, Her special licence that
I, the said Richard Holden Davis, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard Holden Davis, 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 Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PACKAGES OR RECEPTACLES FOR SULPHURIC ACID," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Richard Holden Davis, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six

page_text: calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Holden Davis, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
There has hitherto been considerable difficulty in the shipment, transit,
or carriage of sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol, it having been usually
enclosed in glass carboys which are very liable to break, and which
cannot therefore in the case of ships or other vessels be stowed with
ordinary cargo but have to remain on deck.
Now the object of my Invention is to make packages or receptacles for
sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol which shall be perfectly safe and which
may therefore be stowed without danger with ordinary cargo on board
ship or elsewhere.
For this purpose I make packages or receptacles as follows:-I line
any ordinary cask or barrel with lead, and I burn or solder the seams
with an ordinary burning machine such as is used by chemical plumbers;
or I make a cast leaden vessel suited to the shape of the outer wooden
covering so that the leaden vessel may be placed therein and be thereby
protected from injury. When the sulphuric acid has been introduced
into the lead lined cask or cast leaden vessel I close up the vessel by
burning or soldering upon the head a capping of lead with or without a
screwed capsule of incorrodible metal.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim making
packages or receptacles for sulphuric acid, substantially as herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Holden Davis, have hercunto
set my hand and, scal, this Thirteenth day of April One thousand
oight hundred and carranty are
RICHARD HOLDEN DAVIS. (L.S.)