Patents Lodged By Sayces

The Sayce name has been associated with a number of inventions which were patented. These include:-

Joseph Sayce

Useful Registered Design Number : 1469 registered by Joseph Sayce of 53 Cornhill, London on the 8th June 1848, under the Category Wearing Apparel for a Easy Morming Coat ("The Tiona").

The following was a advertisement for the coat:-

New Winter Garment --Sayce's

Patent -- For travelling by railway or by the other public mediums, as well as for general winter wear, the new garment, known as SAYCE's PATENT TRAVELLING COAT, claims especial notice, inasmuch as that by its adoption convenience and comfort are insured, in conjunction with the preservation of a decidedly gentlemanly appearance. The usual prices are 2 and 3 guineas - J. Sayce and Co., tailors to H.R.H. Prince Albert, and patentees also of the Piuma or Six Ounce Coat -- 53, Cornhill

Leonard Alfred Sayce

U S Patent No. 2,721,389 dated 25 October 1955 for ‘Production of Rulings such as those of Diffraction Gratings. Leonard was at the time an assignor to the National Research development Corporation, London. This invention relates to the ruling of diffraction gratings or the like and is concerned more specially with the production of rulings which take the form of a plurality of equally spaced parallel grooves or lines inscribed or ruled upon a surface by means of a  toll such as a scribing tool.