Specification of James Wright : furnaces for consuming smoke.

  • Wright, James
Date:
1855
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Credit: Specification of James Wright : furnaces for consuming smoke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wright's Improvements in the Construction of Furnaces for Consuming Smoke. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of tlie conditions of tlie Letters Patent, filed by the said James Wright in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th August 1855. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, James Wright, of 16, Park Street, Kennington, in the County of Surrey, Oven 5 Builder, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto 10 me, the said James Wright, Her special licence that I, the said James Wright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Wright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there¬ after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, 15 use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “Im¬ provements in tiie Construction op Furnaces por the purpose op Consuming more Effectually than heretofore the Smoke contained therein,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Wright, by an instrument 20 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 be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. 25 NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Wright, do hereby declare the *• nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per¬ formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:— My Invention consists in the use and adaptation to furnaces generally of a 30 suspended “ bridge ” placed at the under side of a boiler or other vessel, imme¬ diately over the furnace bars and at a suitable distance therefrom ; my Inven¬ tion being designed for the purpose of compelling the smoke given off from “ green coal, to be deflected or thrown down by the said bridge, and by these means to cause the smoke to pass over the clear part of the fire and be con- 35 sumed thereby more perfectly than heretofore. I would remark that I am aware that suspended or hanging bridges have
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