Specification of Thomas Vicars, senior, Thomas Vicars, junior, Thomas Ashmore, and James Smith : smoke consuming furnaces or chauffers.

Date:
1859
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Thomas Vicars, senior, Thomas Vicars, junior, Thomas Ashmore, and James Smith : smoke consuming furnaces or chauffers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    3/8
    A.D. 1858, ISth September. N° 2111. Smoke Consuming Furnaces or Chauffers. LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Vicars, senior, Thomas Vicars, junior, and Thomas Ashmore, Engineers, and James Smith, Baker, all of Liverpool, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, for the Invention of “ Improve¬ ments for the Consumption of Smoke in Moveable Furnaces or Chauffers for Heating Bakers’ and other like Ovens.” Sealed the 11th February 1859, and dated the 18th September 1858. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Vicars, senior, Thomas Vicars, junior, Thomas Ashmore, and James Smith at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 18th September 1858. 5 We, Thomas Vicars, senior, Thomas Vicars, junior, and Thomas Ashmore, Engineers, and James Smith, Baker, all of Liverpool, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Im¬ provements for the Consumption of Smoke in Moveable Furnaces or Chauffers for Heating Bakers’ and other like Ovens,” to be as follows :— 10 The box or ash-pit of the chauffer of our Invention is surrounded by air passages, which supply air that passes between a shell or box that surrounds the chauffer or fire-box; this outer shell is about half the height of the chauffer. The air ascends along the outer sides of the chauffer and mingles at the top 15 with the gases from the fire, and thus prevents smoke. In the chauffer end
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3