WORKING AND BOYLING LIQUIDS WORKING OF THE WAST WATER THEREPROM AND BRING THEM TO A PROPER CONSISTANCE FOR WORKING SALT FROM SALT WATER, SALT PROM SALT SPRING, AND SALT FROM ROCK SALT WHEN DISSOLVED, COPPERASS MAKING, OR CLARIFYING SALTPETRE, AND WORKING OF SPIRITS, SOONER AND BY A SHORTER METHOD THAN THEN PRACTISED OR USED, AND AT LESS EXPENCE
Year: 1760

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
PRICE, of the Parish of Saint John, of Wapping, in the County of Middlesex,
Warehouseman, send greeting.
WHEREAS is most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
Ilis Letters Patent under Ilis Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twenty-seventh day of November, in the first year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said Benjamin Price, during the terms of years therein men-
tioned, that I should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within all Ilis Majesty's Plantations and
Colonys abroad, my Invention for "WORKING AND BOYLING LIQUIDS
WORKING OF THE WAST WATER THEREPROM AND BRING THEM TO A PROPER
CONSISTANCE FOR WORKING SALT FROM SALT WATER, SALT PROM SALT SPRING,
AND SALT FROM ROCK SALT WHEN DISSOLVED, COPPERASS MAKING, OR CLARIFYING
SALTPETRE, AND WORKING OF SPIRITS, SOONER AND BY A SHORTER METHOD
THAN THEN PRACTISED OR USED, AND AT LESS EXPENCE;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso, obliging ne, the said Benjamin Price, particu-

page_text: larly to 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 to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within four calendar months next after the date of the said
Letters Patent, as in and by the said in part recited Letters Patent, relation
being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin Price, do hereby declare that
my new method of boyling liquids, and working off the wast water therefrom,
and bringing them to a proper consistence for working salt from salt water,
salt from salt spring, and salt from rock salt when dissolved, copperass making,
or clarifying saltpetre, and working of spirits, sooner and by a shorter method
than now practised or used, and at a less expence, is performed in the following
manner, to wit:-
Place one or more panns of any form with flat bottoms in such a manner
that the fire put under the first pann may pass under the second, third, or any
other pann, the fire-places or places of heat under each pann being made of
a concave form, agreeable to the form of the pann or panns.
The panns for
salt are made of cast-iron plates, placed on an iron frame with cement, to hold
liquids without riveting; then by a wheel or wheels, made with ladles or
bucketts, which works in the boyling liquids, and a continual blast of air
forced through the same by a pair of double bellows, or other blast conveyed
by a pipe to the bottom of the liquor, where it expires, which together raises
and carries off greater steam then by any other method, keeping the liquor as
near a boyling heat as may be by means of a stop-cock on the air pipe, that
will admit of more or less air at pleasure. The wheels and blast are put in
motion by mill-work, and may be adapted to distilling; making the worm
with more turns in it and bigger for the still then usual, so that the vapour
may have more room and time to condense.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Price, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-sixth day of March, in the first year of the
reign of His Majesty King George the Third, and in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-one.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt), in the presence of,
JOHN HABIN.
BENJN PRICE. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of March.
in the year abovesai l, the said Benjamin Price came before our said Lord
the King in Ilis Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute
made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and
Mary of England, & so forth.
Inrolled the aforesaid Twenty-seventh day of March, in the year above
written.