PREVENTION OR CURE OF SMOKEY CHIM- NIES
Year: 1810

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARY, the
wife of JAMES TOWNLEY, of Ramsgate, in the County of Kent, Esquire, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
in and by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the
Eighth day of June now last past, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did
give and grant unto me, the said Mary Townley, His special licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Mary Townley, my exc-
cutors, administrators, or assigns, by myself, or themselves, or by my or their
deputy or deputies, servants, or agents, or such others as I, the said Mary
Townley, my executors, administrators, and 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 or method applicable to the "PREVENTION OR CURE OF SMOKEY CHIM-
NIES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me,
the said Mary Townley, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in

page_text: 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 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
Mary Townley, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed as follows, that is
to say:-
•
That part of the plan marked A supposes the top of a chimney, shewing
three flues in a single stack. That part of the plan marked B supposes the
shaft of the chimney A, showing the brackets immediately above which sup-
port the canopy or dome in that part of the plan marked C, and which is to
be fixed on the top of the brackets quite close, so that no smoke can pass
from one flue to the other. Those parts of the plan marked D suppose the
profiles of the brackets, which may be made either by potters earth and burnt,
or by the bricks projecting and plastered with cement, or may be made in
various other modes, and a truss or bracket formed as fancy may guide the
workman, and as supposed in that part of the plan marked E. That part of
the plan marked F, supposes a chimney top shewing six flues in a doublo
stack, and also shewing the partitions which divide the flues and support the
canopy or dome, and of which particular care must be taken; they are so
closely cemented together that the smoke may not pass from one to another;
and to mind that the flues are all independent of each other and likewise to
observe that there is not any cavity whatever in the chimney. It is necessary
to remark that if the covering should not prevent the chimney from smoking,
then the application of the tube marked H, as shewn in that part of the plan
marked G, will cause an effectual cure, the diameter of the tube to be three
inches, and the mouth of it to be formed similar to that of the mouth of a
French horn instrument, which is to be covered with a wire grate not less than
one inch square, that the air may not be impeded and that birds, &c. may be
-kept out.
In witness whereof, I, the said Mary Townley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of August, in the fiftieth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God, of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender
of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
MARY TOWNLEY. (L.B.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fourth day of August, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Mary Townley came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and everything therein contained, in form above written. And also tho
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.