CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM BOILERS AND IN CARRIAGES, OR APPARA- TUS CONNECTED THEREWITH
Year: 1829

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
VINEY, of Piccadilly, Colonel in the Royal Artillery, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing dato
at Westminster, the Second day of November, in the tenth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
James Viney, His especial licence that I, the said James Viney, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Viney, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times hereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM BOILERS AND IN CARRIAGES, OR APPARA-
TUS CONNECTED THEREWITH;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said James Viney, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause
the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited

page_text: Letters Patent, as in and by the same, referenco being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, tho said
James Viney, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to consist:―
First (as regards my improvements in steam boilers), in making such boilers
of a conical shape, and with circular conical flues, whereby I am enabled to
apply the heat of lamps, fed with oil or gas, as effectually as other fuel, and
whereby also I am enabled to expose a much more extended surface of
flue in a given space of boiler than by any method now in use. And,
secondly (as regards my improvements in carriages, or apparatus connected
therewith), in doing away the necessity of a tank separator, blowing box,
and the apparatus connected therewith, and now in general use for steam
carriages. And in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said James
Viney, do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention is to be
performed by the following description thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon (that is to
say) :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a plan of a steam boiler on my improved plan, and consists of
eight steam generators, each of which if made on a large scale might. be s
considered as a separate steam boiler; but one great advantage of my
Invention being the diminutive size of these generators, compared with the
extent of heated surface they expose to the water, and which enables me to
place them in a great variety of positions to suit the form of engine required.
I have here described eight as the number constituting a boiler; and it is only s
necessary further to observe, as regards this Figure, that the top or chimney is
supposed to be removed, and which would otherwise conceal the position of the
generators, for such I shall call each of the small circular boilers shown in this
Figure.
Figure 2 is a vertical section of one of the said generators, drawn to a s
larger scale for the purpose of better elucidation. A, A, are the sides of the
generator, which it will be observed are conical, being smaller at the top than
the bottom. The parts marked B are circular conical flues; and C is a lamp
to heat the water in the boiler. The parts marked e are communication pipes
for the steam to pass through; and the parts marked r are similar pipes for $
the water. F is the top or chimney to receive the smoke (if any) from the
flues. G is the steam pipe; and H is a waste steam pipe from the cylinder,
which conducts the waste steam under a semicircular pipe or gutter S, which
is placed over the top of the first compartment or space between the side of

page_text: the boiler and the first flue. This gutter is pierced with holes in its upper
surface to admit the waste steam to escape without the noise that usually
accompanies that process.
Figure 3 is an external elevation of Figure 2, and represents the sides of
the generator, cased in wood (I prefer poplar), and hooped like a cask. The
same letters are used to denote similar parts in all the Figures.
Figure 4 is a plan of the lower part of Figure 2; and Figure 5 is a plan
of the upper part of Fig. 2; each plan showing its respective communication
pipes. It is only necessary further to add that each generator is furnished
with safety valves in the ordinary way; and when several are used, as in Fig. 1,
communication pipes must be added to connect them in their operation.
Now, whereas it is evident that one of these generators, made on a large
scale, and adapted to be heated by a furnace in the ordinary way, would serve
of itself for a boiler; but I prefer a combination of small ones, as shown in
Fig. 1, as better adapted to suit the convenience of such irregularly formed
boilers as may be required for particular purposes. And whereas I claim as
my Invention,
First (as regards my said improvements in steam boilers), the generators,
with conical sides and circular conical flues, herein-before described, either
combined in any number or in any suitable position, as shewn in Fig. 1 of the
Drawing, or any one of them made on a larger scale, as aforesaid, and thus
forming one complete boiler of itself.
And further (as regards my said improvements in steam carriages, or
apparatus connected therewith), I claim the doing away of the tank separator,
blowing box, and apparatus connected therewith.
And such my Invention being to the best of my knowledge and belief en-
tirely new, and never before used within that part of His said Majesty's United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His said Dominion
of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be
my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said Speci-
fication doth comply in all respects, fully, and without reserve or disguise, with
the said proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent con-
tained; wherefore I do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege
to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Viney, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty.
JAMES (Ls.) VINEY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1880, the aforesaid James Viney 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 First day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight