A BOILER, POT, OE UTENSIL, TO BE MADE OF ANY KIND OF METAL, FOR THE MORE CONVENIENT DRESSING OF SHIPS' PROVISIONS WITH SEA WATER, OR ANY KIND OF WATER; FOR MAKING SEA WATER FRESH; FOR PURIFYING AND MAKING SWEET ANY KIND OF WATER; AND FOR THE MORE EXPEDITIOUS METHOD OP BOILING ANY KIND OF FISH, FLESH, OR PROVISIONS OF ANY SORT, AND EXTRACT- ING BROTHS OR SOUPS
Year: 1769

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
SCOTT, of Knightsbridge, in the County of Middlesex. Gentleman, sent
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excell' Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Sixteenth
day of February, in the ninth year of Ilis reign. did give and grant unto
me. the said George Scott, his especial licence, that I. the said George Scott,
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, and within all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad,
my Invention of "A BOILER, POT, OE UTENSIL, TO BE MADE OF ANY KIND OF
METAL, FOR THE MORE CONVENIENT DRESSING OF SHIPS' PROVISIONS WITH SEA
WATER, OR ANY KIND OF WATER; FOR MAKING SEA WATER FRESH; FOR PURIFYING
AND MAKING SWEET ANY KIND OF WATER; AND FOR THE MORE EXPEDITIOUS METHOD
OP BOILING ANY KIND OF FISH, FLESH, OR PROVISIONS OF ANY SORT, AND EXTRACT-
ING BROTHS OR SOUPS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a pro-
visoc. obliging me, the said George Scott, under my hand and seal, to cause
a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same
is to be performed. to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within four calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
George Scott, do hereby declare that ny said Invention of a Boiler, Pot, or
Utensil, to be made of any kind of Metal, for the more Convenient Dressing
of Ships' Provisions with Sea Water, or any kind of Water; for making Sea
Water Fresh; for Purifying and making Sweet any kind of Water; and for
the more Expeditious Method of Boiling any kind of Fish, Flesh, or Provi-
sions of any Sort, and Extracting Broths or Soups, is described in the manner
following (that is to say) :-
A copper or boiler is to be prepared, agreeable to the dimensions required,
and made quite close, cither by screwing the lid on, or by fixing it on by any
other method that will keep it close. Another vessel is prepared, which may
be fixed upon the other boiler, or placed by the side of it, or anywhere at no
very great distance from it. This latter is also to be made quite close, by
screwing the lid on, or by any other adequate method. The copper or boiler
is to be filled with sea water, or any other water, which is to be made to boil.
The provisions to be dressed are to be put into the other vessel, that is, to be
placed on the top of, or by the side, or near the boiler. A communication by
a pipe is to be made between the copper or boiler and the other vessel into
which the provisions are put, which is to convey the steam arising from the
copper or boiler into the other vessel, by which steam the provisions are
dressed. A stopcock is to be added to the pipe, either to let the steam in or
to keep it out of the vessel which contains the provisions, as occasion may
require. Another pipe and stopcock is also to be fixed to the copper or boiler
that contains the water, which is to be opened when provisions are not dressing
to let the steam escape out of the copper or boiler. If sea water is intended
to be made fresh, or other water purified, the copper or boiler is to be filled
as before-mentioned with such water, and made to boil, and the pipe which is
before directed to be fixed to the copper or boiler must be luted to a worm,
for the steam to pass through into a vessel to be placed for its reception, or
another pipe may be luted to it, and conveyed through cold water, to condense
the steam. It is immaterial what shape, make, or dimensions the coppers
boilers, or other vessels are of, provided the steam is conveyed from one to the
other, as the whole process, whether for dressing provisions, &c., or making
salt water fresh, or purifying & making sweet any water, is performed by the
steam.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Scott, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirteenth day of June, One thousand seven hundred
and sixty-nine.
GEORGE SCOTT. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Thirteenth day of June,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid George Scott 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 stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Fourteenth day of June, in the year above said.