A METHOD OF ABATING OR NEARLY DESTROYING SMOKE, AND OF OBTAINING A VALUABLE PRODUCT THEREFROM;
Year: 1816

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
FREDERICK MUNTZ, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Roller of
Metals, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Second day of March, in the fifty-sixth year of His reign, did give
and grant unto me, the said George Frederick Muntz, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege, and authority,
that I, the said George Frederick Muntz, ny executors, administrators, and
assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His Majesty's United
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD OF ABATING OR NEARLY
DESTROYING SMOKE, AND OF OBTAINING A VALUABLE PRODUCT THEREFROM;" in
which Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said George
Frederick Muntz, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of
the said Invention to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery in
England within six calendar months next immediately after the date of the
said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Frederick Muntz, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Inven-
tion consists in passing a quantity of water, either cold or warm, through
smoke before it escapes into the atmosphere; and by this process nearly all
the black and earthy substances contained in the smoke are thrown down, and
precipitated and swim on and are collected from the surface of the water as it
runs away. The substance so collected is the product mentioned in the title of
my Patent. To effect this, I conduct the smoke produced from the combustion
of coal or any material or substance whatsoever capable of producing smoke
as it comes from the fire through a flue or flues, pipe or pipes, tunnel or tunnels,
of such size, position, form, or length as may be found necessary according to
the quantity of fire used; horizontal flues will generally be found most con-
venient. The top or. tops of which flues, pipes, or tunnels I make of sheet
iron, copper, or any other substance properly adapted for the purpose, which
sheets or tops of the said flues, pipes, or tunnels, I' perforate with small holes,
at such distance from each other as to make them capable of producing a
sufficient shower, by keeping the surface or top of the said sheets or tops of
the said flues, pipes, or tunnels constantly covered with water (either warm or
cold) two or three inches deep. The same effect may be produced by jets of
water from the bottom or sides of the flues or pipes, or in any way in which
the water shall pass through the smoke in small particles or divisions, so as
not to prevent obtaining a sufficient draught. The application of it in manner
of a shower bath, as above described, will, however, I believe, be found more
convenient and efficacious, and the quantity of water required less than if
used in any other way. I use air pumps, air dips, or ventilators of any sort or
kind best calculated for increasing the draught, by exhausting the air from the
flues, pipes, or tunnels, as I find necessary, or I use bellows for blowing the
fire, and both these means if a stronger draught be required.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Frederick Muntz, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
GEORGE FREDERICK MUNTZ. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-sixth day of Augus
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid George Frederick Muntz cam
before our Lord the King in his Chancery, and acknowledged the Specificatio
aforesaid, and all and everything therein contained, in form above writter
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor
the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Twenty-ninth day of August in the year above writton.
Inrolled the Twenty-ninth day of August, in the year ahove written