PORTABLE OVENS IN VARIOUS SIZES, FORMS, AND SHAPES, AS ROUND, OVAL, SEMICIRCULAR, OBLONG, SQUARE, SPHERICAL, OR ANY OTHER REGULAR OR IRREGULAR FIGURE, AND COMPOSING ITS OWN FLUE AND MODE OF SHUTTING, THE CONDUCTING FOOT STANDING ON A CROW TRIPOD OR TRIANGLE, OR ANY OTHER KIND OF STAND WHATEVER THAT STANDS OVER ANY FIRE GRATE, STOVE, OR HOT HEARTHS IN
Year: 1800

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, ROBERT DARBY,
of the Parish of Saint James, in the City of Bath, Bright Smith, and MORGAN
NICHOLS, of the Parish of Walcot, in the said City of Bath, Surgeon, severally
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 at
Westminster, the First day of May, in the fortieth year of His reign, did give
and grant unto us, the said Robert Darby and Morgan Nichols, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by ourselves and themselves, or
by our and their deputies or deputy, servants or agents, or such others as we,
or our executors, administrators, or assigns, should agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of fourteen years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, and vend, within that
part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His Colonies and Plantations
abroad, our Invention of "PORTABLE OVENS IN VARIOUS SIZES, FORMS, AND SHAPES,
AS ROUND, OVAL, SEMICIRCULAR, OBLONG, SQUARE, SPHERICAL, OR ANY OTHER REGULAR
OR IRREGULAR FIGURE, AND COMPOSING ITS OWN FLUE AND MODE OF SHUTTING, THE
CONDUCTING FOOT STANDING ON A CROW TRIPOD OR TRIANGLE, OR ANY OTHER KIND OF
STAND WHATEVER THAT STANDS OVER ANY FIRE GRATE, STOVE, OR HOT HEARTHS IN

page_text: GARDENS, FIELDS, CAMPS, ON BOARD VESSELS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION AT SEA OR UFON
RIVERS, OR ELSEWHERE, BEING PORTABLE AND IMMEDIATELY MOVEABLE TO ANY SITUA-
TION, AND MADE HOT IN FIVE MINUTES FOR BAKING EVERY KIND OF BREAD, PIES,
PUDDINGS, MEAT, &C. AND STEWING AND STEAMING OF POTATOES, AND WHICH OVENS
MIGHT BE MANUFACTURED IN WROUGHT IRON, CAST IRON, COPPER, TIN, OR ANY
MALLEABLE MATTER WHATSOEVER, OR ANY KIND OF CLAY, STONE, OR COMPOSITION,"
in such manner as to us, the said Robert Darby and Morgan Nichols,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in their
discretions seem meet; and that we, the said Robert Darby and Morgan
Nichols, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might
have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and, advantage from time
to time coming, growing, and arising by reason of the said Invention during
the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the
said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted, or men-
tioned to be granted unto us, the said Robert Darby and Morgan Nichols, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso obliging: us, the said Robert Darby and Morgan Nichols,
or one of us, by an instrument in writing under our, or one of our, hands and
seals, to cause a particular description of the nature of our 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 im-
mediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Robert Darby and Morgan Nichols, do declare that our Invention consists of
a method of making Portable Ovens in various sizes, forms, and shapes, as
round, oval, semicircular, oblong, square, spherical, or any other regular
or irregular figure, and of its composing its own flue and mode of
shutting, a plan whereof is hereunto annexed and marked with the letters
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, and that at the bottom of the said plan
we have written a particular description of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is-performed, with proper references to each part of our said
Invention, which, together with what is described in the above recited Letters
Patent and in this Specification, contains a true, accurate, and particula
account of the nature and application of our new invented Portable Ovens, and

page_text: which ovens so made in any of the before-mentioned shapes or forms, and of.
ny of the before-mentioned substances, are far superior to any other ovens
itherto used or now in practice.
In witness whereof, we, the said Robert Darby and Morgan Nichols, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Sixteenth day of May, in the
fortieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third,
the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, &c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred.
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of May, in the year above written.