Specification of John Ferguson : furnaces and fire-places.

  • Ferguson, John.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of John Ferguson : furnaces and fire-places. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fergusons Improvements in Furnaces and Fire-places, <§c. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said John Ferguson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th May 1854. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I 5 John Ferguson, of Heathfield, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Brick and Pottery Manufacturer, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the 10 seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc¬ cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Ferguson, Her special license that I, the said John Ferguson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Ferguson, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, 15 from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in Fur¬ naces and Fire-places, and in the Prevention of Smoke,” upon the 20 condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Ferguson, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to bo filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next 25 and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Ferguson, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom- 30 panying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:— My said Invention relates to the so arranging the flues and furnace details of steam boiler and other furnaces that considerable economy in fuel may be secured, whilst the usual discharge of smoke and uncon-