NEW AND IMPROVED FORM OR METHOD OF MAKING STEAL-ENGINE BOILERS AND STEAM BOILERS FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES, AND OF CONSTRUCTING THE FLUE FOR CONVEYING THE HEAT TO THE SAME, WHEREBY THE CONSUMPTION OF FUEL IS CONSIDERABLY LESSENED
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
BRODIE, of Caicy Sticet, in the Liberty of the Rolls, in the County of Middle-
sex, Iion Master, send greeting
WHEREAS His most Gracious Majesty King George the Thud, by His
Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, beaning date at West-
minster, the Thuty-first day of May now last past, did give and grant unto
me, the said Alexander Biodic, my exois, adññions, and assigns, special licenco,
full power, solo privilege and authority, to me, my exois, adinors, and assigns,
during the term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent, to
make, use, excicise, and vend, within that part of This Majesty's United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Ilis Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my "NEW AND IMPROVED FORM
OR METHOD OF MAKING STEAL-ENGINE BOILERS AND STEAM BOILERS FOR VARIOUS
OTHER PURPOSES, AND OF CONSTRUCTING THE FLUE FOR CONVEYING THE HEAT TO THE
SAME, WHEREBY THE CONSUMPTION OF FUEL IS CONSIDERABLY LESSENED;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said Alexander
Biodie, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in

page_text: His Majesty's High Count of Chancery within one calendar month next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. that the same and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted. should cease. determine,
and become void
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Brodie, in compliance
with and in pursuance of the said proviso in the sand recited Letters Patent
contained. by this instrument in writing under my hand and seal, do particu-
larly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention in the said Letters
Patent mentioned, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and
declare the same to be in manner following, that is to say -
I make my cast iron boiler of any size, in form as by the Drawing hereunder
appears; the cast iron plates are made with flanges to any size that may be
wanted for the boiler, and put together with rivets or screws and nutts and
pasteboard between the plates. and to prevent the boiler from giving way by
force of the steam, there are several wrought iron stays fixed in the inside of
the boiler The boiler so made stands upon iron, so that there is scarcely one
quarter of an inch but what the fire has its full power over the bottom of
it. There are two fire-places, and the flue round is done with brick according
to the heigth and width that may be required; the top of the boiler is flat, and
I cover it with buck
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Biodie, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and five.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of June,
in the year of our Lord 1805, the aforesaid Alexander Brodic 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 for that purpose
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and five.