AN IMPROVED. FUEL
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edgar Breffit, of King William Street, in the City
of London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED. FUEL."
Sealed the 18th March 1862, and dated the 19th September 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edgar Breffit at tho
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 19th
September 1861.
I, EDGAR BREFFIT, of King William Street, in the City of London, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED FUEL,"
to be as follows:-
My improved fuel is formed by combining coal with wood by forming
boxes or cases, by preference of or about the size of building bricks, and
filling the same with the coal. I then fix a cover on the box, so as to
completely enclose the coal. The said boxes or cases being perfectly clean,
be placed on the fire by hand, may be stored under a table, or otherwise
in the apartment where they are to be burnt, and' when placed on the fire
ignite more readily than coal by itself.
may

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto him,
tho said Edgar Breffit, Her special licence that he, the said Edgar
Breffit, his executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as he, the
said Edgar Breffit, his executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term 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
"AN IMPROVED FUEL," upon the condition (amongst others) that he, the
said Edgar Breffit, his executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under his, or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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 within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edgar Breffit, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manuer the samo is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
My improved fuel is formed by combining coal with wood by forming
boxes or cases, by preference of or about the size of building bricks, and
filling the same with coal. I then fix a cover on the box, so as to completely
enclose the coal. The said boxes or cases being perfectly clean, may be placed
on the fire by hand, may be stored under a table or otherwise, in the apart-
ment where they are to be burnt, and when placed on the fire, ignite moro
rapidly than coal by itself.
.1
What I claim is, the enclosing of coal in boxes or envelopes of wood, of
such convenient sizes or shapes as will admit of their boing placed whole on
the fire
Signed and sealed, in the
presence of
JOSEPH STAYNER EIDMARS.
EDGAR BREFFIT. (L.S.)