Specification of Edward Jones : draining and collecting sewage, &c.

  • Jones, Edward.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Specification of Edward Jones : draining and collecting sewage, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G Jones Apparatus for Draining and Collecting Sewage, $c. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Edward Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26 th January 1859. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Edward Jones, of Olive House, No. 20, Camden Cotteges, N.W., in the Parish of 5 St. Pancras, and County of Middlesex, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sexth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, 10 the said Edward Jones, Her special licence that I, the said Edward Jones, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Jones, 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, 15 exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for 44 Effecting a better System of Drainage, and the Machinery and Apparatus necessary for the SAME, WHEREBY THE SEWAGE MANURE IS COLLECTED AND CONVENIENTLY EXPORTED FOR USE, AND THE NOXIOUS EFFLUVIA PREVENTED FROM CONTAMINATING THE AlR OF 20 Populous Cities and Towns, and whereby the Drains may be more strongly AND SECURELY BUILT BY THE MANUFACTURE OF A MORE SUITABLE AND BETTER Material,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Jones, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe 25 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 Edward Jones, do hereby declare 30 the nature of mv said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be •f ' performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawings thereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon:— That the particulars of the said Invention, and the benefits to be derived 35 therefrom, may be more clearly understood and appreciated, it is necessary to consider briefly the present state of the drainage of the metropolis, and the acknowledged difficulties to be overcome.