A NEW SHIP STOVE, KITCHEN, OR HEARTH, WITH A SMOAK JACK AND IRON BOILERS, WHICH WAS PREFERABLE TO ANY HITHERTO DISCOVERED OR MADE, AND WOULD BE OF PUBLIC UTILITY
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, ALEXANDER
BRODIE, of Carey Street, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, White-
smith, sends greeting.
WHEREAS the said Alexander Brodie did, by his Petition, humbly
represent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
that he had, by great application and study, invented and brought to per-
fection "A NEW SHIP STOVE, KITCHEN, OR HEARTH, WITH A SMOAK JACK AND
IRON BOILERS, WHICH WAS PREFERABLE TO ANY HITHERTO DISCOVERED OR MADE,
AND WOULD BE OF PUBLIC UTILITY;" and, as he was the sole Inventor, he there-
fore most humbly prayed His said Majesty, that He would be graciously
pleased to grant unto him, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His
Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, under His Great Seal of Great Britain, for
the sole making and vending the said stove, kitchen, or hearth, and exercising
his said Invention, within that part of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of
fourteen years; and His said Majesty being willing to give encouragement to
all arts and inventions which might be for the public good, was graciously
pleased to condescend to his request, and therefore by His Royal Letters
Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighth day of December, in the
twenty-first year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and

page_text: meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant
unto the said Alexander Brodie, his executors, admors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said
Alexander Brodie, his executors, admors, 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 Alexander Brodie, his executors, admors,
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 vend his said Invention within
that part of his said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, Bis
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as
to him the said Alexander Brodie, his executors, admors, and assigns, or any
of them, should in his or their discretions seem meet; and that the said
Alexander Brodie, 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 him the said Alexander
Brodie, his executors, administrators, 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 form of the Statute in such case made and provided; in
which said Letters Patent is contained a provisoe that if the said Alex-
ander Brodie should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
his said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His said Majestie's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months next after the said Letters Patent, 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,
referrence being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear..
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, he, the said
Alexander Brodie, doth hereby describe and ascertain the. nature of his said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows (that is
to say) -
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The stove, kitchen, or hearth is made of wrought iron, and such part thereof

page_text: as may be affected by the fire covered with cast iron, except the ventilator and
hood, which are made of copper. The hearth is nearly of a square form or
shape, the frame of which contains a range or grate with two cranes, one or
two iron boilers, one or two iron ovens, and one ventilator. To the outside
of the said frame are fixed two or three iron rails for hanging stewing stoves
upon. The hood over the range and flue for boilers are made of iron, with an
easy slope of the size of the flue or funnel where the fly of the smoak jack is.
The range is made with a folding top barr, two trivets to turn round, and one
or two cranes with a stay to each. The oven is made according to the space
of the room between the back of the range and the inmost side of the fire-
place of the boilers. The ventilator for carrying off foul air in a funnell
about six inches in diameter, is fixed under the slope which conveys the fire
round the boilers. The said funnel goes through the deck of the ship below,
and may be conveyed to any part of the ship, or where the sick people are
kept. The square iron boilers have screwed cocks fixed in the bottoms, and
are made of plate and bar iron. The bottom frame is made of two, three, or
four inches iron kneed square, with two rows of holes (one row for the bottom,
and the other for the sides) countersunk for rivetting the bottom and sides
together, and putt together with rivetts. The corner pieces are nearly the
same. For the sides, there is an upper or top rail to the said boiler to which
the sides are fixed on the inside of the frame with countersunk holes and
rivetts. The said framo is made of flat iron, from two inches to six inches
broad under the edge of the said frame, and regulates the height of the flue
round the boilers, which flue is inclosed by three or four knced plates of iron,
screwed or rivetted to the top of the frame of the hearth. The boilers have
double covers for the conveniency of cleaning the same, and are made with
only one row of holes for rivetting, and adding a triangular piece in the
corner, or of a triangular form; by which triangular piece the boilers
may be put together with nuts and screws, so that there may be new sides
and bottoms put in them in case of any accident by being broken. The
smoak jack is fixed with an iron bar, by nuts and screws, to the hood or of the
funnell of the ship's hearth. The spindle, where the chain wheel is fixed, comes
through the funnell, and is supported at the end by a stay, which is secured to
the side of the hearth, and is made with one, two, or more flys, with a worm
wheels or pinions, and may be used for pumping of water, or extracting foul
air, as well as turning the spit. There are stewing stoves with iron frames and
drawer for ashes, made to hang or stand. There are double dish'd screwed
plates to mend the boilers in case of accidents by shot or otherwise. The said

page_text: hearth is chiefly put together with nuts and screws for the purpose of being
taken to pieces with more ease.
In witness whereof, the said Alexander Brodie hath hereunto set his
hand and seal, the Third day of April, 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 and King, Defender of the
Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and eighty-one.
SAM COOPER,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane.
THO SOWERBY,
His Clerk.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Third day of April, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Alexander Brodie 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 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.