Specification of Stephen White : apparatus for the manufacture of gases; furnaces and boilers of steam engines, &c.

  • White, Stephen.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Stephen White : apparatus for the manufacture of gases; furnaces and boilers of steam engines, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Whites Impts, in Appar. for the Manufacture of Gases; Furnaces, Foilers, by an instrument in writing under my band and seal, to be enrolled in Her said Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within (six) calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in joart recited Letters Patent, as, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear: And whereas Her said Majesty by Her Letters Patent bearing date the Fifteenth 5 day of April, One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, granted to me, my exors, adhiors, and assigns, the sole privilege of making, using, and vending my Invention of “ A New Means of producing Ga^ both as to Apparatus and Materials from which the Gas is produced,” and my said Invention consisted, or w^as described in the Specification thereof, which was duly inrolled by me 10 in Her Majesty’s High Court of Chancery, to consist, so far as it related to the materials from which gas for the purpose of illumination is produced, in decomposing water by bringing it into contact, in the manner in the said Specification described, with charcoal, coke, or anthracite coal, and small thin plates of iron, or small pieces of thin iron wire, or with charcoal, or coke, or 15 anthracite coal, and lime at a very high temperature, and thereby producing from such combination of materials, so treated, hydrogen gas and oxide of carbon gas mixed; and afterwards in combining such compound gas with carburetted hydrogen gas, produced by bringing tar, oil, or fat, or certain other substances thereinafter designated or described, in contact with heated mate- 20 rials, so as to produce ultimately a compound gas composed of hydrogen gas, ^ oxide of carbon gas, and carburetted hydrogen gas, mixed together; which compound gas was therein described as fitted for the purpose of illumination ; and in my said Specification I claimed the method therein described of pro¬ ducing hydrogen gas and oxide of carbon gas combined, freed or nearly freed 25 from the presence of carbonic acid gas, by passing the gas evolved by the decomposition of water through a mass of materials composed of charcoal, coke, or anthracite coal, and iron plates, or iron wires, or lime heated to a high temperature, and of oombining such compound gas with carburetted hy¬ drogen gas, produced by the decomposition of oil, or fat, or tar, or such other 30 substances as therein-before designated. But I did not claim any part of the retorts directed to be used, nor any part of the apparatus described, except certain colanders, a certain apparatus designated as a dispurser, and the use of certain chains described. NOW KNOW YE, that in. compliance with the said proviso contained in 35 the Letters Patent so granted to me as aforesaid, bearing date the Twenty- sixth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, I, the said Stephen White, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described