IMPROVEMENTS IN JOINING EARTHENWARE TURES AND PIPES
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Stephen Green, of Princes Street, Lambeth,
in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
JOINING EARTHENWARE TURES AND PIPES."
Sealed the 9th April 1853, and dated the 11th December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Stephen Green at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 11th December 1852.
I, STEPHEN GREEN, of Princes Street, Lambeth, in the County of
Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN JOINING EARTHENWARE TUBES AND PIPES " to be as
follows:-
Heretofore in connecting earthenware pipes and tubes by sockets,
cach pipe or tube is made with a socket.
Now, my Invention consists of employing separate sockets of metal,
each of which receives the ends of two tubes or pipes, and also
allows of packing or cement to make the whole fluid tight.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Stephen Green in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 10th June 1853.

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
STEPHEN GREEN, of Princes Street, Lambeth, in the County of
Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh 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 Stephen Green, Her
special licence that I, the said Stephen Green, my executors, ad-
ininistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Stephen
Green, 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 JOINING EARTHENWARE TUBES AND
PIPES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Stephen
Green, 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 Stephen Green, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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:
Heretofore in connecting earthenware pipes and tubes by sockets
each pipe or tube is made with a socket. Now, my Invention con-
sists of employing separate sockets of metal, each of which receives
the ends of two tubes or pipes; and also allows of packing or cement
to make the whole fluid tight. And in order that my said 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 two earthenware tubes or pipes connected by a
metal socket, according to my Invention. Figure 2, shows one of
the earthenware pipes or tubes separately, which is made of the
same size from end to end. Figure 3, shews a socket of metal,
which I prefer to be of cast iron. Figure 4, shows a section of two
carthen pipes or tubes connected together; a, a, are the earthenware
pipes or tubes; b, is the metal socket which fits over the ends of the
carthenware pipes or tubes, allowing space for the same to receive
cement or packing between the interior of the socket and the ex-
terior of the earthenware pipe or tube. This mode of constructing and
connecting earthenware pipes or tubes will be found to offer strengthi
and other advantages. Figure 5, shows a section of two tubes con-
nected with a metal socket, which does not, however, come exter-
nally at the ends of the earthenware pipes or tubes, as in the previous
case. Figure 6, shows the metal socket separately, which I prefer
to be of iron; a, a, are the earthenware tubes or pipes, cach made
with a groove to receive the socket b, which, fitting into, is cemented
therein, and will protrude beyond the end of one, and form a socket
for the inner part a, of the next earthenware pipe or tube.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood what I
claim is, the combining earthenware pipes and tubes by metal sockets
as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Stephen Green, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fiftee the
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
STEPHEN GREEN. (L.S.)