IMPROVEMENTS IN RECEPTACLES TO BE USED FOR HEATING PURPOSES. PROAL
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Sydney George Camroux, of Savage Gardens, in
the City of London, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN RECEPTACLES TO BE USED FOR HEATING PURPOSES.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sydney George
Camroux at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 30th December 1872.
I, SYDNEY GEORGE CAMROUX, of Savage Gardens, in the City of
London, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN RECEPTACLES TO BE USED FOR HEATING PURPOSES," to be
as follows:-
:-
The improvements consist in the manufacture and use of a recessed
bottom or chamber to be furnished to receptacles in general use for
heating, such as kettles, saucepans, pots, boilers, and such like, and are
intended more particularly to be applied to the aforesaid receptacles when
they are used by being heated with gas, by means of stands or supports.
affixed on or over ordinary gas brackets or burners, and in constructing
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page_text: such frames, stands, or supports that the flame may be at the proper or
desired distance from the bottom of the receptacles, and also that the
receptacle may be steadied by means of the frame projecting inwards
and up the recessed bottom or chamber to the bottom of the receptacle.
The improvements may be performed by adding to an ordinary kettle
or pot round the bottom thereof a rim of metal or other convenient
material projecting downwards the required depth, and thus forming the
recessed bottom or chamber, or any convenient manner of forming the
recessed bottom or chamber may be used, the frame stand or support may
be made of metal or other convenient material constructed so as allow
of a free admission and retension of air, and that it will stand on or over
the gas bracket or burner or burners in the position required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Sydney George Camroux in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 27th June 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SYDNEY
GEORGE CAMROUX, of Savage Gardens, in the City of London, Gentle-
man, send grecting.
.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Sydney George Camroux, Her special
licence that I, the said Sydney George Camroux, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Sydney George
Camroux, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN RECEPTACLES TO BE USED FOR HEATING
PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Sydney
George Camroux, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,

page_text: 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Sydney George Camroux, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
The improvements consist in the manufacture and use of a recessed
bottom or chamber to be furnished to receptacles in general use for
heating, such as kettles, saucepans, pots, boilers, and such like, and are
intended particularly to be applied to the aforesaid receptacles when they
are used by being heated over gas, spirit, or oil flame, and supported by
stands or supports placed on or over ordinary gas brackets, burners, or
lamps; and in constructing such frames, stands, or supports that the
flame may be at the proper or desired distance from the bottom of the
receptacles, and also that the receptacle may be steadied by means of the
frame projecting inwards and up the recessed bottom or chamber to the
bottom of the receptacle.
The improvements may be performed by adding to an ordinary kettle
or pot round the bottom thereof a rim of metal or other convenient
material projecting downwards and preferably tapering inwards the
required depth, and thus forming the recessed bottom or chamber, or
any convenient manner of forming the recessed bottom or chamber may
be used; the frame, stand, or support may be made of metal or other
convenient material constructed so as to allow of a free admission and
retension of air, and that it will stand on or over the gas bracket, or
burner, or burners, or lamps in the position required.
In witness whercof, I, the said Sydney George Camroux, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-
SYDNEY GEO. CAMROUX. (L.S.)