AN IMPROVED GAS CONSUMER, FOR THE MORE EFFECTUALLY CONSUMING THE SMOKE ARISING FROM GAS BURNERS OR LAMPS
Year: 1824

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BAILEY, of Lane End, Staffordshire Potteries, Manufacturer ana Ornamentor
of Lustre Ware, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom, bearing
date at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of June 1824, give and grant unto
me, the said William Bailey, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William
Bailey, my exors, admors, and assings, during the term of years therein men-
tioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
AN IMPROVED GAS CONSUMER, FOR THE MORE EFFECTUALLY CONSUMING THE
SMOKE ARISING FROM GAS BURNERS OR LAMPS;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso, that if I, the said William Bailey, shall not parti-
cularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and
all liberties and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall utterly cease,
determine, and become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear..

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Bailey, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and the following
description thereof (that is to say):-
A, B, is a hollow globe, to be made either of British porcelance, earthenware,
or other earthy materials, not glazed inside but left porous, so that it will not be
subject to crack or burst with the sudden transition of heat when the burners
are first lighted, or contraction of cold when extinguished, with the tempe-
rature of this climate. C, D, the outside of the hollow frustrum or conical
tube that the small end injects into the inside of the hollow part of the globe,
ono and half inch or more, to conduct the vapours arising from the burners
into the body of the globe from the glass chimney placed on the top of the
burner, and the chimney should not be less than nine inches high from the
top of the burner; and the perdefume or smoke self-consumer to be suspended
half an inch below the horizontal level of the top of the glass chimney, which
conducts the vapour into the frustrum into the globe. At the first lighting of the
burner the globe becomes a condensor, and as the heat encreases the small end
of the frustrum or cone being not more than of an inch to one inch diameter,
the heat is collected to a narrow focus, prevents any smoke or vapour from
descending, but completely destroys the whole, so that the ceiling of rooms where
this article is used cannot be discolored by the smoke arising from the burner,
nor can there be the least unpleasant smell arise from the vapours or fumes; it
acts as a complete smoke self-consumer. E, E, the inside of the hollow frustrum
or cone, being glazed same as British porcelane or earthenware, and then
covered with one or more coats of platina burnt into the glaze, it becomes of
a dark silver or light polished steel colour, and the frustrum or cone being
made of a true conical shape, it acts as a reflector of the rays or increaser
of light downwards from the mouth of the perdefume or smoke self-consumer.
And platina being a metal that hath a property peculiar to itself of not cor-
roding or tarnishing with heat or atmospheric air, it continues of that high
and beautiful polish after use for any length of time. The outside of the
frustrum or cone as well as the globe, to be ornamented with plain or varie-
gated lustre, enamel, colours, gold burnished, bass relief figures, foilage,
&c., &c., as taste shall direct.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Bailey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
WILLIAM (L.s.) BAILEY, JUN".

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1824, the aforesaid William Bailey came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1824, the aforesaid William Bailey came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.