Specification of John Houston : consuming smoke in furnaces.

  • Houston, John
Date:
1859
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Credit: Specification of John Houston : consuming smoke in furnaces. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Houston s Improvements in Consuming SmoJce in Furnaces. pipes, as the smoke is prevented from ascending from the chimney as aforesaid will cause much of the smoke, &c. generated to return to the burning fuel in the fire-place, and be destroyed ; that which passes into the smoke box will pass through the reverberatory pipe into a chamber attached to the furnace, where I have jets of flame, which are intensified and directed by a blowpipe 5 or pipes, and this portion of the smoke will pass back into the smoke box and fireplace, and thus the whole of the smoke will be consumed. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said John Houston in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th January 1859. 10 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, John Houston, of Nelson Square, Blackfriars Road, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord One 15 thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John Houston, Her special licence that I, the said John Houston, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Houston, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree 20 with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years 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 the Means of Effecting the Consumption of Smoke in Furnaces,” upon 25 the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Houston, my execu¬ tors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 30 within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Houston, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
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