Specification of Joseph Boes : apparatus for consuming smoke, &c.

  • Boes, Joseph.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Specification of Joseph Boes : apparatus for consuming smoke, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.p. 1873, m mabob, N° 808. Apparatus for Consuming Smoke> &c. (This Invention received Frovimnal Frotection only,) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Boes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th March 1873. I, Joseph Boes, of 38, Swinbrooke Road, Notting Hill, in the County 6 of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for A New Method of and Appaeatus foe Consuming Smoke, Economising Fuel, AND Peeventing Smoke IN CHIMNEYS,” to bo as follows;— In the first place I call it a system and not a provision; because it varies in form according to the shape of the fire-place; it can be adapted 10 indefinitely to all kinds of hearths, either kitchen or drawing room, to steam engines (or steam machines), machines fixed or moveable; to bakers’, or pastrycooks’, and even in certain cases to kitchen ovens, without regard to the nature of the fuel which is used, such as charcoal, common coal, wood, or turf, in a word, to . everything which can 16 produce smoke. This system consists in grates, metal plates, or per*