A MACHINE FOR THE PURPOSE OP SAVING FUEL AND PREVENTING DIRT OR DUST FROM FIRES, WHICH HE CALLS THE ECONOMICAL RECEIVER
Year: 1798

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GEORGE
BLUNDELL, of the Parish of Saint Mathew, Bethnal Green, in the County
of Middlesex, Lint Manufacturer, sends greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Third day of May now last past, did give and grant unto the said
George Blundell, his executors, administrators, and assigns, special licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, to make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, during the
term of years therein expressed, his Invention of "A MACHINE FOR THE PURPOSE
OP SAVING FUEL AND PREVENTING DIRT OR DUST FROM FIRES, WHICH HE CALLS
THE ECONOMICAL RECEIVER;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a provisoe obliging the said George Blundell, by an instrument in writing
under his hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of
the 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 after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and

page_text: by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said George Blundell, in compliance with the
said provisoc, doth hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly
described and ascertained in the following Plans and description thereof,
viz-
I take any metal, simple or compounded, and sufficiently hard and capable of
being bent, cut, cast, or otherwise framed or formed into a square, oval, or any
other shape that may be necessary for executing my Invention, and so as to fit
to and answer to all sorts of stoves, grates, or fireplaces, some examples of which
are shewn in the annexed Plates, representing the receiver in various forms.
The back is made to fit the back part of the stove, grate, or fireplace.
A, the handles for taking away the receiver with its contents; B, a slider by
which it is emptied. The grating or net work, delineated on the upper part
of the receiver, catches the cynders and lets fall the ashes into the receiver
below, and which may be made of any kind of wire, worked into any form or
shape proper for the obvious purpose intended, or in plates of metal, either by
stamping, drilling, piercing, or any other mode of working, leaving a passage for
the ashes, and separating them from the cynders. C shews in what manner
fenders of any kind may be attached to the receiver, either made on purpose
or it may be made to suit with and fit any kind of fender.
Fig. 2 shews a different way of making the receiver, by shortening the
grating or netting, whichever may be used, and introducing a sliding box of
some kind of metal at the bottom of it, next the fender (D shows this box
half taken out) with a cover E (in the Plate represented as turned back)
moving at each end upon squares, or what clockmakers call cocks, with center
pivots, by which means, when it is shut, to cover the box, a vacancy for the
passage of the cynders into the box is left; and the cover, by moving on such
center pivots when the box is taken out, shuts back, as in the Plate, close upon
the front of the grating or network, to prevent, while the box is moved, the
falling of cynders into its place. The box may be made with one end of it to
fall, in order that it may be more easily discharged of the cynders.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Blundell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.
GEORGE BLUNDELL. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same First day of June, in the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid George Blundell came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
And also
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same First day of June, in the year above written.