A METHOD OF CURING SMOKEY CHIMNIES
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
DAVIS, of the Town of New Windsor, in the County of Berks, Smith and
Locksmith, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twenty-eighth day of January, in the twenty-fifth year of His reign, did give
and grant unto me, the said John Davis, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege, and authority, that I, the
said John Davis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them,
by myself and tliemselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants, or
agents, or such others as I, the said John Davis, 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 that part of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed,
my Invention of "A METHOD OF CURING SMOKEY CHIMNIES," in such manner as to
me, the said John Davis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of
them, should in my or their discretions seem meet; and that I, the said John
Davis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have
and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time.
coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and
during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy
the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto me, the said John Davis, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of four-

page_text: teen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute in that
case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso obliging me, the said John Davis, by an instrument under my hand and
seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being there-
unto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said John
Davis, do hereby declare that the said Invention consists and is performed in
manner following, viz* :-
First, cube the room where the chimney is smokey, and according to the
dimensions thereof a machine or double air vessel made of either iron, copper,
tin, and all other metallick bodies, and likewise of stone, brick, tile, and every
other thing that will resist the fire. This machine or air vessel is placed behind
the back of the range or grate, as it may be wanted, and is made of such
dimensions so as to contain a certain quantity of air sufficient for the size of the
smokey room, and which machine or air vessel is particularly described in the
Drawings in the margin of these Presents, and for a full explanation of which
I particularly refer.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Tenth day
of February, in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the Third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-five