A NEW MACHINE OR STOVE ENGINE, WHICH CAN BE MADE OF ANY FORM WHATEVER, FOR THE MORE EASY, CHEAP, AND EXPEDITIOUS METHOD OF EITHER BOILING SUGAR, SOAP, OR OTHER ARTICLES WHICH REQUIRE TO BE BOILED. IN LARGE VESSELLS, OR DISTILLING ALL KINDS OF LIQUORS
Year: 1773

page_text: MELVILL'S
SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN.
MELVILL, of the Island of Tobago, Planter, send greeting.
..
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fifth day of August, in the thirteenth year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said John Melvill, His especial licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority that I, the John Melvill; during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might' make; use,
exercise, and vend, within that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "A NEW MACHINE OR STOVE ENGINE, WHICH CAN BE MADE OF ANY
FORM WHATEVER, FOR THE MORE EASY, CHEAP, AND EXPEDITIOUS METHOD OF EITHER
BOILING SUGAR, SOAP, OR OTHER ARTICLES WHICH REQUIRE TO BE BOILED. IN LARGE
VESSELLS, OR DISTILLING ALL KINDS OF LIQUORS;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Melvill, under my
hand and seal, to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
in 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 four calendar
months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same
(relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
A
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Melvill, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a New Machine
or Stove Engine, which can be made of any Form whatever for the more

page_text: easy, cheap, and expeditious Method of either Boiling Sugar, Soap, or other
Articles which require to be boiled in large Vessells, or Distilling all kinds
of Liquors, is described in the Plans thereof, and references thereto, hereunto
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Melvill, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, the Twenty-fifth day of November, in the fourteenth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by
the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-three.
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stampt, in the presence of
THO RUGELEY.
JOHN MELVILL. (L.8.)
JACOB BANNISTER.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Twenty-fifth day of November'
in the year last mentioned, the aforesaid John Melvill came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification of his
Invention aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above
written, and in the Plans thereto annexed referred to. And also the Spe-
cification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute made
in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary
of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the aforesaid Twenty-fifth day of November, in the year last
above mentioned.

page_text: NL. B. a Section of ditto.
N°I.C. a Plan of ditto.
No2. A. a Elevation of an Oval.
Nº3. A. the frustrum of a Cone..
Nº4. A. ditto reversed..
Nº5. A. an elevation 3 sides..
Nº6. A ditto four sides.
Nº7. A
ditto five sides..
Nº8. A ditto six sides.
Nº9. A. ditto seven sides...
Nº10. A. do. right sides.
NILA do. nine sides.
Nº12.A do. ten sides
Nº13 A. Jute clever sides.
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N14.A ditto twelve sides.
Nº15.A. dallo frustrum of a Cone...
Nº16. A. dillo reversed....
N°2. B. plan of ditto
Nº 3. B. plan of d
Nº4.AB plan of d
Nº5.B. plan of d
Nº6.B. plan of do
N° 7.B. plan of d
No 8. plan of do
Nº9. plan of do
Nº10.B. plan of d
NIL.B. plan of do
N°12.B. plan of ditto.
Nº13.B plan of d
N°14.B. plan of ditto.
Nº15.B. plan of d
No 16.B. plan of d
Nº17.A. ditto a Cube or paralellogram N°17.B: plan of ditto
Nº18.A dillo any number of irregular sides Nº18 A plan of ditto
Nº19 A. ditto for any complex figure Nº19.B. the plan.