THE ERECTING SALT PANS FOR THE BOILING OF SALT
Year: 1747

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
LUCAS, Salt Proprietor, at Droitwich, in the County of Worcester, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twenty-seventh day of July, in the one & twentieth year of His reign, did
give & grant unto me, the said Samuel Lucas, His especial licence that I, the
said Samuel Lucas, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my new Invention for "THE
ERECTING SALT PANS FOR THE BOILING OF SALT," within England, Wales, &
Barwick-upon-Tweed; in which said recited Letters Patent there is con-
tained a provisoe obliging me, the said Samuel Lucas, by a writing under
my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be enrolled
in His Majestie's High Court of Chancery, within four kalendar months
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same
(relation being thereunto had) may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Samuel Lucas, do hereby declare that the said Invention is to be performed
as in the Plan hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Lucas, have hereunto sett my
hand & seal, this Twelfth day of November, 1747.
SAM. LUCAS (LB.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twelfth day of November,
the aforesaid Samuel Lucas came before our Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the aforesaid Writing, & every thing therein contained and
specified, in form above said. And the said Writing was stamped according to
the form of the Statute made & provided in the sixth year of the reign of the
late King William & Queen Mary, & so forth.
Inrolled the Seventeenth day of November, in the said twenty-first year
of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second.

page_text: c. c. c. The Fire place, the Barrs of which are 4 feet long and 2 feet distant from (or below) the pan at the end of the Barrs of each Fire place begins a Flue which is in that place, 12 inches deep
and decreases gradually till they both meet at the end of the partition at which place they are Cinches deep.
Note
All other plans have only one Fire-place, the Barrs of which are 7 feet in length and 3 feel below the pan; also the Five carried on, from the Fire place to the end of the plan is not less than
2 feet in depth in any part, likewise they have no partition to support the bottom of the pan, nor any Regulator, nor second pan.
d.d.& Bars of Brick which form a crooked flue under the second pan which is continued from the first and carried on under the second pan to the drying room, this Flue is 6 inches deep in every part
from the pan.
e. &c. A Wall which with the outer wall a. a. a &c forms a flue which is continued round the Stove or drying room, this Flue is 18 inches deep, and the top of it is coverd over with Iron plates,
also the sides of this Flue rise 3 feet above the plates which cover it. Then a covering of wood lined with Tin falling upon those sides forms a kind of Bing wherein the wet salt is put to dry.
Ote. The way of drying Salt before was only a Flue carried round the room and the Salt laid thereon without any covering whatever!
F. The Chimney wherein the Smoak ascends from the work.
te also - The length of each pan is 18 feet and the Breadth 8 feet, likewise the breadths of the flues under the first pani are 3 feet each, the breadth of the crooked flue under the second pan is 2 feet 9
inches, and that round the Stove is 3 feet- The dotted line represents the course of the Smoak and burn'd air in its passage thro' the several Filues till it enters the Chimney.