APPLICATION FOR REISSUE, BY ASSIGNEE OR EXECUTOR. RESPECTFULLY REPRESENTS: That Samuel Morey, of said city, did obtain letters patent of the United States for an improvement in the boilers of steamengines, which letters patent are dated on the first day of March, 1850; that your petitioner, by an assignment duly made and executed, bearing date the first day of January, 1855 [or by mesne assignments duly made and executed], and recorded in the Patent Office of the United States, has become the owner and holder of said letters patent [or that the said Samuel Morey departed this life on the tenth day of May, 1858, and that your petitioner has been duly appointed his executor]; and your petitioner now believes that the said letters patent are inoperative and invalid, by reason of a defective specification, which defect has arisen from inadvertence and mistake. He therefore prays that he may be allowed to surrender the same, and requests that new letters patent may issue to him, for, the same invention, for the residue of the period for which the original patent was granted, under the amended specification herewith presented, he having paid thirty dollars into the Treasury of the United States, agreeably to the requirements of the act of Congress in that case made and provided. PHILADELPHIA, January 1, 1860. Specification. TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: JAMES C. FISHER. Be it known that Samuel Morey, of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, invented a new and useful improvement in steam boilers, and that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon, and making a part of this specification. [The rest of the specification will be as in No. 5, except that it will be expressed in the third person.] Oath. CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA, STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, } 88. On this first day of January, 1860, before the subscriber, a justice of the peace, personally appeared the above-nameu APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION, BY PATENTEE. James C. Fisher, and made solemn oath [or affirmation] that he verily believes that, by reason of an insufficient or defective specification, the aforesaid patent is not fully valid and available to him; and that the said error has arisen from inadvertence, accident, or mistake, and without any fraudulent or deceptive intention, to the best of his knowledge or belief. 5 CENT INT. REV. STAMP. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 7. APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION, BY PATENTEE. Petition. TO THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS: The Petition of Sebastian Cabot, of Cabotsville, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, RESPECTFULLY REPRESENTS: : That your petitioner, on the tenth day of April, 1849, duly obtained letters patent of the United States, for improvements in machines for manufacturing weavers' heddles; that said letters patent were issued in the name of your petitioner [and were duly reissued to him on the first day of August, 1860, if such was the fact that your petitioner verily believes himself to be the original and first inventor of said improvement; that he has made diligent exertions to put said invention into general use, and to realize compensation from the public therefor, but that, without neglect or fault on his part, he has failed to obtain from the use and sale of said invention a reasonable remuneration for the time, ingenuity, and expense bestowed upon the same, and the introduction thereof into use. Your petitioner therefore prays, that the said letters patent may be duly extended, according to law. CABOTSVILLE, January 1, 1863. SEBASTIAN CAROT. APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION, BY PATENTEE. Statement. In the matter of the application of Sebastian Cabot, for the extension of letters patent of the United States granted to him on the 10th day of April, 1849, for improvements in machines for manufacturing wire heddles. Before the Commissioner of Patents. Statement and Account, prepared and submitted under the provisions of § 18, of the act of 1836. The Statement of Sebastian Cabot, of Cabotsville, county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, the above-named appli. cant, respectfully shows: [Such statement should set forth clearly and intelligibly the facts and circumstances connected with the original invention, and its development; the time and money spent in perfecting the same; the efforts that have been made to effect its introduction into use; and such facts as go to show or prove the ascertained value of the invention; and all receipts derived from and expenditures paid out in connection with such invention, which receipts and expenditures should be sufficiently in detail to exhibit a true and faithful account of loss and profit, in any manner accruing from and by reason of the invention. Such statement should also be accompanied by an account, showing in debit and credit the expenditures and receipts connected with the invention, and set out in the statement.] On this first day of January, 1863, before me, the subscriber, a justice of the peace, personally appeared the above-named Sebastian Cabot, and made solemn oath [or affirmation] that he verily believes that the foregoing statement and account, signed by him, is a true and correct account of the receipts and expenditures derived from and paid out in connection with his be DISCLAIMER. fore-mentioned invention and letters patent, and of the ascertained value of such invention, and that he has, without neglect or fault on his part, failed to obtain from the use and sale of his said invention a reasonable remuneration for the time, ingenuity, and expense bestowed upon the same, and its introduction into use. 5 CENT INT. REV. STAMP. JAMES NEWBOLD, Justice of the Peace. An application for an extension, made by an executor or administrator of the patentee, will be substantially like the above, except that changes will be made in the petition and oath similar to such as are set forth and contained in Form 3. 8. DISCLAIMER. TO THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS: The petition of Sebastian Cabot, of Cabotsville, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, RESPECTFULLY REPRESENTS: That letters patent of the United States, bearing date the first day of March, 1850, were granted to your petitioner for certain improvements in the steam-engine [or, "that he has, by assignment, duly recorded in the Patent Office, become the owner of a right for the several States of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, to certain improvements in the steam-engine, for which letters patent of the United States were granted to John Doe, of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, dated on the first day of March, 1850"]; that he has reason to believe that, through inadvertence and mistake, the claim made in the specification of said letters patent is too broad, including that of which your petitioner [or the said patentee] was not the first inventor. Your petitioner, therefore, hereby enters his disclaimer to that part of the claim in the aforenamed specification which is in the following words, to wit: "I also claim the particular manner in which the piston of the above-described engine is constructed so as to insure the close fitting of the packing APPEAL TO EXAMINERS IN CHIEF: TO COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS. thereof to the cylinder, as set forth;" which disclaimer is to operate to the extent of the interest in said letters patent vested in your petitioner, who has paid ten dollars into the Treasury of the United States, agreeably to the requirements of the act of Congress in that case made and provided. CABOTSVILLE, January 1, 1860. SEBASTIAN CABOT. 9. APPEAL TO EXAMINERS IN CHIEF. TO THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS: SIR: In conformity with section third of the act of Congress dated 21 March, 1861, I hereby make application for an appeal from the decision of the principal examiner in the matter of my application for a patent for an improvement in the manner of tripping the valves of steam-engines, rejected a second time on tenth day of December, 1863, and request that the same may be heard by the examiners in chief, the fee on appeal required ir such cases having been paid. Dated, January 1, 1864. Respectfully, JOHN ERRICSON. 10. APPEAL TO THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS. TO THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS: SIR: In conformity with section second of the act of Congress dated 2d March, 1861, I hereby make application for an appeal, in the matter of my application for a patent for an improvement in the manner of tripping the valves of steam-engines, from the decision of the examiners in chief, made therein, on the third day of February, 1864, and request that the same may be heard by you, in person, the fee required by said act having been duly paid by your petitioner. Dated, March 1, 1864. JOHN ERRICSON. |