IMPROVEMENTS IN JACKETS OR PROTECTORS FOR COVERING METAL AND OTHER SURFACES TO PREVENT LOSS OF HEAT BY RADIATION
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN JACKETS OR PROTECTORS FOR COVERING METAL AND OTHER SURFACES TO
PREVENT LOSS OF HEAT BY RADIATION."-A communication from abroad
by Charles Louis Ruquois,, of Marseilles, France.
Sealed the 17th October 1862, and dated the 21st April 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 21st April 1862.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN JACKETS OR PROTECTORS FOR COVERING METAL AND:OTHER
SURFACES TO PREVENT LOSS OF HEAT BY RADIATION," a communication from
abroad by Charles Louis Ruquois, of Marseilles, France, to be as follows:-
Hitherto felt, straw, woollen waste, and hemp ropes have been used for
surrounding pipes, cylinders, and other articles to prevent loss of heat by
radiation; in addition to other disadvantages they have been found to become
soon carbonised. Now this Invention consists in the employment of cords,
bands, or fabrics composed of bristles or hairs, or of a packing of bristles or
hairs in their natural state, with which the surfaces are covered or surrounded
on the outside. These materials will be found economical and durable and do
not readily carbonise.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman, in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 21st October 1862.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence, that I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my. executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and.
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN JACKETS OR PROTECTORS FOR
COVERING METAL AND OTHER SURFACES TO PREVENT LOSS OF HEAT BY RADIATION,"
(communicated to me from abroad by Charles Louis Ruquois, of Marseilles,
France) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
"
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
Hitherto felt, straw, woollen waste, and hemp ropes have been used for
surrounding pipes, cylinders and other articles to prevent loss of heat by radia-
tion; in addition to other disadvantages they have been found to become even
carbonized. Now this Invention consists in the employment of cords, bands;
or fabrics composed of bristles or hairs, or of a packing of bristles or hairs: in
their natural state, with which the surfaces are covered or surrounded on

page_text: the outside. These materials will be found economical and durable and do
not readily carbonize.
For protecting cylinders and cylindrical bodies I use ropes or bands of any
kind of hair or bristles. For flat or irregular surfaces I make the hairs
or bristles into a woven or felted fabric and fasten the fabric on such
surfaces.
In witness whereof I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of October,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
kind of hair or bristles. For flat or irregular surfaces I make the hairs
or bristles into a woven or felted fabric and fasten the fabric on such
surfaces.
In witness whereof I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of October,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.)