Specification of James Robinson : furnaces, fire bars, &c.

  • Robinson, James
Date:
1855
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Credit: Specification of James Robinson : furnaces, fire bars, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Specification. Robinsons Improvements in Apparatus for Generating Steam and Gas, Qc. having the grate bars provided with covers at the ends, so as to form a series of gas retorts, having pipes to carry off the gas, or by having such grate bars or retorts connected together at one or both ends, so that one pipe may serve to convey the gas away. Thirdly, in causing the smoke to descend through the whole series or tiers of 5 gratings to the flue or flues which are below, instead of being above the fire, as at present, the coal being supplied to the first or upper grates, as also the air necessary to combustion, and the draught or current downwards, through the gratings. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed 10 by the said James Robinson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th March 1855. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, James Robinson, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Manufacturing Chymist, send greeting. 15 WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Royal Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said James Robinson, Her special licence that I, the said James 20 Robinson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Robinson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, 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, 25 the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in Apparatus for Generating Steam and Gas, and Consuming Smoke,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Robinson, 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 30 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 Royal Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Robinson, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 35 to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say):—