Patent of Robert Copland : economising fuel.

  • Copland, Robert.
Date:
1857
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Patent of Robert Copland : economising fuel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Copland's Means of Effecting a Saving in the Consumption of Fuel. bis executors, admors, and assigns, according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned. And moreover, we do by these Presents, for us, our heirs and successors, will and command all and singular the justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and 5 ministers whatsoever of us, our heirs and successors, for the time being, that they nor any of them do not, nor shall at any time hereafter during the said term hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Robert Copland, his executors, admors, or assigns, or any of them, or his or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawful use or 10 exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any thing relating thereto : Provided always, and these our Letters Patent are and shall be upon this condition, that if at any time during the said term hereby granted it shall be made appear to us, our heirs or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to law or prejudicial or incon- 15 venient to our subjects in general, or that the said Invention is not a new invention as to the public use and exercise thereof in that said part of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all our Colonies and Plantations abroad aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the said Robert 20 Copland as aforesaid, then, upon signification or declaration thereof, to be made by us, our heirs or successors, under our or their signet or privy seal, or by the Lords and others of our or their Privy Council, or any six or more of them, under their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be utterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing herein- 25 before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding: Pror vided also, that these our Letters Patent, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give privilege unto the said Robert Copland, his executors, adniors, or assigns, or any of them, to use or imitate any invention or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found 30 out or invented by any other of our subjects whatsoever, and publickly used or exercised in that said part of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon- Tweed, or in any of our Colonies and Plantations abroad aforesaid, unto whom like Letters Patent or privileges have been already granted for the sole use, 35 exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Robert Copland, his executors, admors, or assigns, and all and every other person and persons to whom like Letters Patent or privileges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly use and practice their several Inventions by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and