CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING SALT, PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1824

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIA
WESTON YOUNG, of Newton Nottage, in the County of Glamorgan, Engineer,
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 Fourth day of December, in the fifth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Weston Young, His especial licence that I, the said William Weston
Young, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Weston Young, my exors, admors, 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, and also in
all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING SALT, PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE
APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said William Weston Young, 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 cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after

page_text: 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
William Weston Young, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention doth consist in an arrangement of iron bars interposed between the
fire used for evaporating brines and the pan usually called the salt-pan, and
also in an arrangement of two or more of the said pans in such manner
that the hot steam arising from the brine in one pan may be used to eva-
porate the brine in another pan. And in further compliance with the said
proviso, I, the said William Weston, do hereby describe the manner in which
I perform my said Invention by the following description thereof, reference
being had to the Drawings annexed and Figures marked thereon (that is to
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
In the Drawing marked No. 1 Figure 1 represents a plan of the said bars. 1
c, c, c, c, is the brickwork of an ordinary fire; the parts marked a are what I
call beam bars, and are bars of iron resting on the said brickwork at each end,
and placed edgeways. The parts marked b are what I call plank bars, and
are bars of iron placed flatways across the beam bars. In this Figure only a
few of the plank bars are shewn, but when completed they should extend all
across the beam bars. Fig. 2 is a section of Fig. 1. fis the ashpit, e the
fire bars, d the fireplace, and 9 the salt pan. In the Drawing marked No. 2
the Figure drawn represents an arrangement of two parts, whereby the steam
arising from the brine in the pand is used to evaporate the brine in the pan
k. In this Figure 6 is the ordinary fire, C the smoke flue, g the chimney, d
the first or lower salt pan, e a space above the pan inclosed by means of the
cover h, and the part marked f is a flue which I call a steam flue leading from
the space e into the smoke flue. K is a second, or what I call the upper pan,
placed immediately over the lower pan d, by which means at least double the
surface of pan may be work'd under the same roof than could be work'd
without this contrivance. By this arrangement it will be seen that the two
pans d and K being supplied with brine, and a fire lighted at b, the brine in
the lower pan d will be evaporated, and the steam arising from the brine in
the said pan d will ascend into the space or chamber e, and thence into the
steam fluef, which steam flue passing under the upper pan K, causes the brine
in the pan K to be evaporated. Now it is quite evident that this aforesaid
arrangement of bars to prevent the burning of the salt pans, and which thereby
enables the manufacturer to use pans of a cheaper and much thinner metal or

page_text: material than can be used in the ordinary way, as also that the aforesaid
arrangement of pans will be applicable to various other useful purposes of evn-
poration; but I hereby declare that I only claim the same for the purpose of
evaporating brines for salt. And such an arrangement of bars and pans for the
said purpose being to the best of my knowledge and belief entirely new, and never
before used in these Kingdoms, I do hereby declare this to be my Specification
of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said Specification doth com-
ply in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise, with the proviso in the
said herein-before in 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 William Weston Young, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.
WILL WESTON (L.s.) YOUNG.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of March,
in the year of our Lord 1825, the aforesaid William Weston Young 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 stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Second day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and twenty-five.