THE UTILIZATION OF STEAM FROM THE DECK ENGINES OF SHIPS, AND APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN.
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Esplen, of Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Engineer, for the Invention of "THE UTILIZATION OF
STEAM FROM THE DECK ENGINES OF SHIPS, AND APPARATUS EMPLOYED
THEREIN.
"
Sealed the 9th June 1874, and dated the 20th December 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Esplen at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th December 1873.
I, WILLIAM ESPLEN, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "THE
UTILIZATION OF STEAM FROM THE DECK ENGINES OF SHIPS, AND APPARATUS EMPLOYED
THEREIN," to be as follows:
.Heretofore, the exhaust steam from winch and other deck engines
of ships has been allowed to escape to waste into the atmosphere.
This practise has been costly in respect of fuel for generating the

page_text: steam, salt water being used to feed the boilers in respect of boiler
maintainance and troublesome and dangerous from many well-known
causes.
Now my Invention consists specifically in utilizing the steam after
it has done work in the engines by collecting it in the form of fresh 5
water, and whilst doing so relieving the engines from back pressure.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Esplen in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 20th June 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ESPLEN, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Esplen, Her special
licence that I, the said William Esplen, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Esplen, my 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 "THE UTILIZATION
OF STEAM FROM THE DECK ENGINES OF SHIPS, AND APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Esplen,
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 immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Esplen, 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, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet
of illustrative Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
Heretofore the exhaust steam from winch and other deck engines
of ships has been allowed to escape to waste into the atmosphere.
This practice has been costly in respect of fuel for generating the

page_text: steam, salt water being used to feed the boilers in respect of boiler
maintainance and troublesome and dangerous from many well-known
causes.
Now my Invention consists specifically in utilizing the steam after
it has done work in the engines by collecting it in the form of fresh 5
water, and whilst doing so relieving the engines from back pressure.
causes.
Now my Invention consists specifically in utilizing the steam after
it has done work in the engines by collecting it in the form of fresh 5
water, and whilst doing so relieving the engines from back pressure.
!
Following this course secures the advantages now to be named,—

page_text: Third. The arrangement and combination of condenser and hot well,
and float acting automatically, substantially as described and illustrated
for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Esplen, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Eighteenth day of June, in the 5
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
In the presence of
J. JOHNSON,
Patent Office,
Clayton Square,
Liverpool.
W. ESPLEN. (L.S.)