A NEW APPARATUS FROM WHICH TO FEED FIRES WITH COALS OR OTHER FUEL
Year: 1825

page_text: LLOYD'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDMUND
LLOYD, of North End, Fulham, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of February, in the sixth year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edmund Lloyd, His especial licence, that I, the said Edmund Lloyd,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edmund Lloyd, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "A NEW APPARATUS FROM WHICH TO FEED FIRES WITH
COALS OR OTHER FUEL;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso obliging me, the said Edmund Lloyd, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and
to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edmund Lloyd, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention doth

page_text: consist in a chamber or magazine, as herein-after described, so affixed to,
made as part of, or placed near an ordinary fire-grate, stove, or other contri-
vance for burning fuel in, that the fire may be fed therefrom without difficulty.
And in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Edmund Lloyd,
do hereby describe the manner in which I perform my said Invention by the
following description thereof, reference being had to the contents of the
Schedule or Drawing hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
THE DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTENTS OF THE SAID SCHEDULE OR DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a front elevation of my said Invention, unconnected
with any fireplace. A, A, is a magazine or chamber for containing coals or
other fuel from which to feed fires, furnished with a door W sliding up and
down in rabbits at each side. B, B, is a framework raised above the maga-
zine or chamber for the purpose of supporting two bobs or balance weights,
better shown in detail in the next Figures 3 & 2. The door W is hung to
these bobs by means of the chains C, C. The bobs are of such a weight as
nearly to balance the weight of the door W; and by this arrangement it will
be seen that on raising the door by means of the button D, the balance weight
will retain it at any height to which it may be raised, while the slightest
additional weight applied to the button D will cause the door to descend, and
thus shut off all communication from the fire to the magazine or chamber.
The parts marked E are only facing plates, and do not constitute any essential
part of my said Invention.
Figure represents a side elevation of my said Invention. A is the maga-
zine or chamber. C, the chain for raising the door. F is an arm or support
to hold the axis on which the balance weight or bob * turns. G, a lever turning
on the axis r. One end of this lever is fastened to the chain C, and or. the
other side is fixed the bob or balance weight H. When the sliding door is
raised by means of the button D, the balance weight of course descends, and
vice versa, when the door is pressed down the balance weight H rises. Kis
a mere casing or cheek to inclose the balance weight and lever.
Figure 8 is a section of my said Invention.
Figure 4 is a plan of the magizine or chamber of my said invention.
Figure 5 is the front elevation of an ordinary fireplace, shewing the applica-
tion of my said Invention thereto, and the situation which it should be placed
in such a fireplace as is here represented.
Now, I do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege only to a
magazine or chamber, of any convenient shape or material, furnished with a
door situated with reference to the fireplace as herein-before described, and

page_text: also to the door represented as attached to the same, and suspended in such a
manner as to rise and fall with a slight upward and downward pressure, and
so balanced as to remain at whatever height it may be raised or depressed to
till further acted upon; and such an apparatus as aforesaid, to wit, a chamber
or magazine, from which to feed fires with coals or other fuel, with such door
as aforesaid so suspended as aforesaid and so situated as aforesaid with
reference to the fireplace, being, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
entirely new, and never before used in that part of His said Majesty's United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of
Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my
Specification of the same, and I do verily believe this my said Specification doth
comply in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise, with the proviso
in my said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore
1 do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said
Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edmund Lloyd, have set my hand and
scal to these Presents (with the said Schedule or Drawing hereunto
annexed), this Eighteenth day of April, in the sixth year of the reign
of His said Majesty King George the Fourth, and in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.
JA' ASPINALL,
Furnival's Inn, London.
CHA' CAREW SMYTH,
His Clerk.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eighteenth day of April,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Edmund Lloyd came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.
-་་་
Inrolled the same Eighteenth day of April,
Eighteenth day of April, in the year above written.

page_text: LLOYD'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDMUND
LLOYD, of North End, Fulham, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of February, in the sixth year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edmund Lloyd, His especial licence, that I, the said Edmund Lloyd,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edmund Lloyd, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "A NEW APPARATUS FROM WHICH TO FEED FIRES WITH
COALS OR OTHER FUEL;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso obliging me, the said Edmund Lloyd, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and
to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edmund Lloyd, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention doth

page_text: consist in a chamber or magazine, as herein-after described, so affixed to,
made as part of, or placed near an ordinary fire-grate, stove, or other contri-
vance for burning fuel in, that the fire may be fed therefrom without difficulty.
And in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Edmund Lloyd,
do hereby describe the manner in which I perform my said Invention by the
following description thereof, reference being had to the contents of the
Schedule or Drawing hereunto annexed, that is to say:—
THE DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTENTS OF THE SAID SCHEDULE OR DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a front elevation of my said Invention, unconnected
with any fireplace. A, A, is a magazine or chamber for containing coals or
other fuel from which to feed fires, furnished with a door W sliding up and
down in rabbits at each side. B, B, is a framework raised above the maga-
zine or chamber for the purpose of supporting two bobs or balance weights,
better shown in detail in the next Figures 3 & 2. The door W is hung to
these bobs by means of the chains C, C. The bobs are of such a weight as
nearly to balance the weight of the door W; and by this arrangement it will
be seen that on raising the door by means of the button D, the balance weight
will retain it at any height to which it may be. raised, while the slightest
additional weight applied to the button D will cause the door to descend, and
thus shut off all communication from the fire to the magazine or chamber.
The parts marked E are only facing plates, and do not constitute any essential
part of my said Invention.
Figure 2 represents a side elevation of my said Invention. A is the maga-
zine or chamber. C, the chain for raising the door. F is an arm or support
to hold the axis on which the balance weight or bob *
on the axis r. One and of this lever is fastened to
turns. G, a lever turning
the chain C, and or the
other side is fixed the bob or balance weight H. When the sliding door is
raised by means of the button D, the balance weight of course descends, and
vice versa, when the door is pressed down the balance weight H rises. Kis
a mere casing or cheek to inclose the balance weight and lever.
Figure 3 is a section of my said Invention.
Figure 4 is a plan of the magizine or chamber of my said invention.
Figure 5 is the front elevation of an ordinary fireplace, shewing the applica-
tion of my said Invention thereto, and the situation which it should be placed
in such a fireplace as is here represented.
Now, I do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege only to a
magazine or chamber, of any convenient shape or material, furnished with a
door situated with reference to the fireplace as herein-before described, and

page_text: also to the door represented as attached to the same, and suspended in such a
manner as to rise and fall with a slight upward and downward pressure, and
so balanced as to remain at whatever height it may be raised or depressed to
till further acted upon; and such an apparatus as aforesaid, to wit, a chamber
or magazine, from which to feed fires with coals or other fuel, with such door
as aforesaid so suspended as aforesaid and so situated as aforesaid with
reference to the fireplace, being, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
entirely new, and never before used in that part of His said Majesty's United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of
Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my
Specification of the same, and I do verily believe this my said Specification doth
comply in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise, with the proviso
in my said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore
I do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said
Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edmund Lloyd, have set my hand and
seal to these Presents (with the said Schedule or Drawing hereunto
annexed), this Eighteenth day of April, in the sixth year of the reign
of His said Majesty King George the Fourth, and in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.
Furnival's Inn, London.
His Clerk.
CHA CAREW SMYTH,
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eighteenth day of April,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Edmund Lloyd came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.