A CERTAIN MACHINE MADE OF COPPER AND IRON AND OTHER METALS, JAPANNED OR OTHERWISE, AS WELL FOR WARMING OF BEDS, AND GIVING AND PRESERVING WARMTH TO THOSE PARTS OF SICK PERSONS WHICH ARE SEIZED OR AFFLICTED WITH ANY DISORDER, AS FOR KEEPING VICTUALS HOT WHICH ARE SERVED UP ON DISHES FOR THE TABLE, AND ALSO OF AN INTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1781

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WILLIAM
EVERS, of the Township of Oulton, in the Parish of Rothwell, in the County
of York, Wire Worker, sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS His Sovereign Majesty King George, the Third, by His Royal
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Ninth day of May, in the twenty-first year of His, reciting
(amongst other things) that the said that the said William Evers had, by his
Petition, represented to His said Majesty, that by great study, labour, and
expence, he, the said William Evers, had invented and brought to perfection
"A CERTAIN MACHINE MADE OF COPPER AND IRON AND OTHER METALS, JAPANNED
OR OTHERWISE, AS WELL FOR WARMING OF BEDS, AND GIVING AND PRESERVING
WARMTH TO THOSE PARTS OF SICK PERSONS WHICH ARE SEIZED OR AFFLICTED WITH
ANY DISORDER, AS FOR KEEPING VICTUALS HOT WHICH ARE SERVED UP ON DISHES
FOR THE TABLE, AND ALSO OF AN INTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION;" His said Majesty
did give and grant unto the said William Evers, his executors, administrators,
and assigns, His said. Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole priviledge.
and authority, that he, the said William. Ever, his executors, adñors, and
assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his and their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said William
Evers, his executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with,.
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully. might make, use, exercise, and

page_text: vend his said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said William Evers, his executors,
adñiors, and assigns, or any of them, should in his or their discretions seem
meet, and that he, the said William Evers, his executors, adñiors, and
assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and
arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
unto the said William Evers, bis executors, admors, and assigns, for and
during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the
said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat
and ended according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in
which said Letters Patent is, amongst other things, contained a proviso that
if the said William Evers should not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to
be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that
then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything
therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding,
as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, doth more
fully and at large appear.
NOW THESE PRESENTS WITNESS, that, in pursuance of the said
Letters Patent, and in conformity to the proviso therein contained, the said
William Evers hath described and ascertained, and by these Presents doth
fully and particularly describe and ascertain, the nature of his said Invention
or new-invented warming pan, and in what manner the same is heated, that
is to say:
The machine is made of two pieces of metal, copper, or copper browned or
jappaned, or iron or tin or any metal plated with silver, or any other metal
whatsoever, those two pieces of metal being round, oval, or square, as may be
most useful for the different purposes herein-after mentioned (that is to say):
For warming of beds they are round or oval, and stamped or worked, so
that the outsides, which form the top and the bottom, are of a convex shape,
and are fastened together at the edges, and, when fastened, form in shape
something like a bed pan. On the upper side there is an opening at the top,

page_text: about seven or eight inches diameter, covered with a lid, which lid is hung by
a joint on one side, and fastened by a bolt and catch on the other, one end of
which bolt extends into an handle to the machine, in which handle is a worm
or spring which causes the bolt to fasten the lid when pressed down. A knop
is fixed upon the handle communicating with the bolt, which knop, when
pressed down, causes the lid to open. There is also another spring fixed to
the lid, which, when the lid is shutt, presses upon the heater hercin-after men-
tioned, and conveys the heat from thence to the lid, and also throws it open
when disengaged from the bolt in the inside. On the bottom are fixed several
small plates of iron or other metal placed on their edges, extending from the
center of the bottom to the sides, and rising about an inch from the bottom,
which operate as conductors of the heat to the bottom and sides from the heater
herein-after mentioned. To every one of which plates, about three inches
from the centre, are fixed strong picces of wire or iron or other metal extend-
ing therefrom to a ring of iron on the top which the lid falls upon, and which
circumscribes the lid, and which wires, iron, or other metal, support and
strengthen the machine, and operate as conductors of the heat to the top of
the machine from the said heater, so that these conductors and springs com-
pleat this new Invention, and leave a place in the center of the machine to
contain a heater of iron or any other metal heated red hot to heat the same
with. When the said machine is used for keeping victuals hot which are
served up on dishes for the table, it is made in the same manner as above
described, except that the bottom and the top are made concave instead of
convex, and that it hath two handles fixed to the sides opposite to each other,
and is made round, oval, or square, which description above contained is a full
and true description of the said Invention.
In witness whereof, the said William Evers hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, the Twenty-fourth day of August, in the twenty-first 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 eighty-one.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twenty-fourth day of
August, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Evers came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt accord-
ing to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of their
late Majestys King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of August, in the year above mentioned.