Specification of John Wakefield : furnaces for boilers.

  • Wakefield, John
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of John Wakefield : furnaces for boilers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    0 A.D. 1820 .N° 4472. Furnaces for Boilers. WAKEFIELD’S SPECIFICATION. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, John Wake¬ field, of Ancoat’s Place, Manchester, in the County of Lancashire, Engineer, send greeting*. WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, did, by 5 His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixth day of June, in the first year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said John Wakefield, my exors, adiiiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said John Wakefield, my exors, adiiiors, and assigns, 10 during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention of “ Certain Improvements in the Construction op Furnaces for Boilers op various Descriptions, and in the Mode of Feeding * « THE SAME WITH FUEL, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE CALCULATED TO LESSEN THE C0N- 15 sumption op Fuel and to Burn the Smoke;” in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Wakefield, by an instru¬ ment in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per¬ formed, to be inrolled in His Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within six 20 calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
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