IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS BURNERS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Jackson, of Exchange Court, Liverpool,
in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN GAS BURNERS."
Sealed the 12th January 1858, and dated the 1st October 1852..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said "Arthur Jackson. at
the Office of the Commissioners of. Patents, with his Petition, on
the 1st October 1852..
I, ARTHUR JACKSON, of Exchange Court, Liverpool, in the County.of
Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said. Invention.for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS BURNERS "to be as follows
This Invention consists of applying a bent wire over the jet so as to
be included in and covered by the flame, by which increased effect will

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Arthur Jackson in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 30th March 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
ARTHUR JACKSOx, of Exchange Court, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her, heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Arthur Jackson, Her special licence
that I, the said Arthur Jackson, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Arthur Jackson, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and. Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN GAS BURNERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Arthur Jackson, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the saine was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Arthur Jackson, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to. be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
The Invention consists of applying a bent wire over the jet so as to
be included in and covered by the flame, by which increased effect will
be obtained. And in order that my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, may be most fully understood and readily carried
into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING,
Which shows a gas burner, having applied thereto a wire a. This
wire being inserted in the flame produces an increased effect from the
gas which passes through a burner.
What I claim is the application of a wire to a gas burner as herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Jackson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
B. ROGAN, j',
Liverpool.
ARTHUR JACKSON. (L.s.)