IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN CARBURETTING GAS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Bricout, of the Firm of Bricout and Berlet,
of Reims, in the Empire of France, Manufacturers, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN CARBURETTING GAS."
Sealed the 11th November 1864, and dated the 14th May 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Bricout at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th May 1864.
I, LOUIS BRICOUT, of the Firm of Bricout and Berlet, of Reims, in the
Empire of France, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN CARBURETTING GAS,"
to be as follows:-
In passing gas through, over, or in contact with any liquid hydrocarbon, it
is found that certain matters become deposited upon the bottom of the
carburetting vessel, which in time impair the action of the carburetting
liquid.
Now, my Invention consists in fitting in the bottom of the carburetting
vessel one or more valves or taps, which can be worked from the outside of
the apparatus, in order to draw off the liquid and impurities when and as
often as required.
The accompanying Drawing represents a carburetting apparatus similar
to that for which Letters Patent were granted to R. A. Brooman the
14th October 1862, No. 2770, fitted with a valve a at the bottom of each
carburetting vessel b according to the present Invention.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Louis Bricout in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th November 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Louis
BRICOUT, of the Firm of Bricout and Berlet, of Reims, in the Empire of
France, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Louis Bricout, Her special licence that I, the said Louis
Bricout, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Louis Bricout, 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
APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN CARBURETTING GAS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Louis Bricout, 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, 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 Louis Bricout, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
that is to say :-
In passing gas through, over, or in contact with any liquid bydrocarbon,
it is found that certain matters become deposited upon the bottom of the
carburetting vessel, which in time impair the action of the carburetting
liquid.
Now, my Invention consists in fitting in the bottom of the carburetting
vessel one or more valves or taps, which can be worked from the outside of
the apparatus, in order to draw off the liquid and impurities when and as
often as required.
The accompanying Drawing represents a carburetting apparatus similar to

page_text: that for which Letters Patent were granted to Richard Archibald Brooman,
the 14th October 1862, No. 2770, fitted with a valve a at the bottom of each
carburetting vessel b according to the present Invention; c is a compartment
at the bottom of the apparatus to receive the liquid and impurities drawn off
by the valves; this compartment is furnished with taps d; it is also provided
with a float e to indicate on a dial f outside the level of liquid in the com-
partment.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my "Improve-
ments in Apparatus employed in Carburetting Gas" fitting in the bottom of
the carburetting vessel one or more valves or taps, which can be worked from
the outside of the apparatus, in order to draw off the liquid and impurities
when required.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Bricout, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of November, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
L. BRICOUT. (LS.)