AN IRON OVEN THAT WAS MOVEABLE AT ALL TIMES, AND WHICH BAKED BREAD OR PYES OR TARTS IN THE UTMOST PERFECTION, AND THE BREAD WAS AS GOOD AS OR EXCEEDED FRENCH ROLLS, AND WHICH OVEN MIGHT BE SETT IN ANY ROOM WITHOUT DANGER OF FIRE, AND THE EXPENSES OF THE FIRING TO BE USED IN BAKING WOULD NOT EXCEED ONE PENNY AN HOUR; AND ALSO A STOVE THE EXACT SAME FORM OF THE OVEN, AND WHICH WAS MOVEABLE INSTANTLY WHILE IN USE, AND WOULD HEAT OR AIR ROOMS AND OTHER PLACES, AND WOULD GIVE MORE HEAT WITH FOUR TIMES LESS FIRE THAN ANY OTHER THING AT ANY TIME THERETOFORE USED FOR SUCH PURPOSE, AND WAS SO SAFE FROM ANY DANGER OF SUFFOCATING THAT MAY BE S R AT WITH
Year: 1769

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
HORNBUCKLE, of East Greenwich, in the County of Kent, Mealman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Richard Hornbuckle, did, by my petition, humbly
represent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
that I had, after much study, labour, and expense, invented "AN IRON OVEN THAT
WAS MOVEABLE AT ALL TIMES, AND WHICH BAKED BREAD OR PYES OR TARTS IN THE
UTMOST PERFECTION, AND THE BREAD WAS AS GOOD AS OR EXCEEDED FRENCH ROLLS, AND
WHICH OVEN MIGHT BE SETT IN ANY ROOM WITHOUT DANGER OF FIRE, AND THE EXPENSES
OF THE FIRING TO BE USED IN BAKING WOULD NOT EXCEED ONE PENNY AN HOUR; AND
ALSO A STOVE THE EXACT SAME FORM OF THE OVEN, AND WHICH WAS MOVEABLE
INSTANTLY WHILE IN USE, AND WOULD HEAT OR AIR ROOMS AND OTHER PLACES, AND
WOULD GIVE MORE HEAT WITH FOUR TIMES LESS FIRE THAN ANY OTHER THING AT ANY
TIME THERETOFORE USED FOR SUCH PURPOSE, AND WAS SO SAFE FROM ANY DANGER OF
SUFFOCATING THAT A PERSON MAY BE SHUTT IN THE ROOM AT THE SAME TIME IT IS
HEATED WITHOUT THE LEAST INCONVENIENCE;" that I was the true inventor of such
oven and stove, and that the same or either of them had never been made by
any other person or persons to the best of my knowledge and belief; and in
regard I apprehended the said Invention would be of great use and benefit to
His Majesty's subjects, I, the said Richard Hornbuckle, most humbly prayed
His said Majesty to grant me, the said Richard Hornbuckle, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, for the sole
making and vending my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick upon Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according to the
Statute in that case made and provided, His said Majesty being willing to

page_text: grant
give encouragement to all arts and inventions that might be for the publick
good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request; and therefore by
His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Ninth day of
December, in the tenth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs, and successors, did give and
unto me, the said Richard Hornbuckle, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His especiall license, full power, sole priviledge, and authority, that I,
the said Richard Hornbuckle, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and
every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or deputys,
servants, or agents, or such others as I, the said Richard Hornbuckle, my
executors, administrators, or assigns should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my
said Inventions within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon
Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Richard Hornbuckle, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet;
and that I, the said Richard Hornbuckle, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profitt, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, aceruing, and
arising by reason of the said Inventions for and during the term of years
therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise and enjoy the said license, powers,
priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be
granted unto me, the said Richard Hornbuckle, my executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen
years from the date of the said Letters Patents next and immediately ensuing,
and fully to be compleat and ended according to the statute in such case made
and provided, and with such covenants, provisoes, and agreements in the said
Letters Patent contained and expressed as therein contained, and as is usual
and customary to insert in such or the like Letters Patents, and in which said
Letters Patent is also contained a provisoe that if I, the said Richard Horn-
buckle, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Inventions, and in what manner the same were to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in
His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before con-
tained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the
said recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Hornbuckle, do hereby declare
that the plans of the oven and stove hereunto annexed, and the explanations
thereof hereunder written and set forth, do contain a particular description of
and do ascertain the nature of my said Inventions, and in what manner the
same are to be performed, that is to say :-
An explanation of a new invented iron oven and stove.-The lower plan is
to shew the inside of the oven and stove; the three upper plans is the outside
of ditto. A, the grate and fire-place; B, B, B, B, the vacancy between the
plates to carry the heat round the oven; C, C, the composition of earth
between the middle and outer plate; D, D, the two inner plates up to the
bottom of the bakeing part of the oven; E, a partition from the grate to the
first inner plate to divide the heat; F, F, three small flews to the middle one,
to let the steam out of the oven, and the two outer ones to vent the draft of
heat; G, G, G, the side, front, and back of the box to carry the draft under
the grate; 9, 9, the two half doors on the front of the box; H, h, the door of
the oven and fire place; I, I, the handles and sides of the flews; i, i, the two
half slides to stop the heat in the oven when heating.
The explanation of the stove.-The stove to be the exact form of the oven
externally and internally, except those plates that are marked, and except the
door for the bakeing part of the oven, which is to be solid the same as the
back, and the earth on the top to be excluded, and those three plates
inwardly and the outer plate where the white dots are belonging to the oven are
to be left out in the stove. K, K, the side of the box, with a door that opens
inward against the front of the grate, so as to prevent the sparks flying out of
the box; L, the front of the box, to be three inches wider than the grate, so
as to give draft round the inward door when open against the grate; l, the
door in the front of the box that opens outwards. The partition, letter E, to
be left out when any small oven is made.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Hornbuckle, have hereunto sett
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of March, in the tenth 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, &c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
RICH (L.S.) HORNBUCKLE.
Sealed and delivered (being first
duly stampt) in the presence of us,
FENWICK LYDDAL,
HENRY METCALFE,
Threadneedle Street
RICH (L.S.) HORNBUCKLE.
Sealed and delivered (being first
duly stampt) in the presence of us,
FENWICK LYDDAL,
HENRY METCALFE,
Threadneedle Street

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that the Twenty-sixth day of March,
in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy, the
aforesaid Richard Hornbuckle came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing
therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instru-
ment 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.