IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS LIGHTING AND VENTILATING APPARATUS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Thomas Wakefield, of Bayswater, in
the County of Middlesex, Barrister-at-Law, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS LIGHTING AND VENTILATING APPARATUS."
Sealed the 16th September 1864, and dated the 16th March 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Thomas
Wakefield at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 16th March 1864.
I, EDWARD THOMAS WAKEFIELD, of Bayswater, in the County of
Middlesex, Barrister-at-Law, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS LIGHTING AND VENTILATING APPARATUS,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in a novel combination of parts, which, arranged in
manner hereafter described and represented in the accompanying Drawing forms
a new apparatus. I take an argand burner and glass chimney a, and place
over it a porcelain, glass, or earthenware pipe b. I fit at the bottom of this
pipe a transparent glass shape c, and connect the top or upper part of the
pipe with a horizontal pipe d of similar material to the first-named pipe, and
external to the ceiling, and opening into a chimney or flue e.. I place in this
latter pipe a valve f, but in some cases this valve may be dispensed with.
The shade c may be either of the shape shown in the Drawing, or a globe open
at bottom.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Thomas Wakefield in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th September 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
THOMAS WAKEFIELD, of Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, Barrister-
at-Law, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Edward Thomas Wakefield, Her special licence that I, the
said Edward Thomas Wakefield, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Edward Thomas Wakefield, 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 LIGHTING AND
VENTILATING APPARATUS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Edward Thomas Wakefield, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said. Invention,
and in what manner the same 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 Edward Thomas Wakefield, 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, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto
annexed, that is to say:
My Invention consists in a novel combination of parts, which, arranged in
manner hereafter described 'forins a new apparatus. I take an argand
burner and glass chimney, and place over them a ‘porcelain, 'glass, or earthen-
ware pipe. I fit at the bottom of this pipe a transparent glass shade, and
connect the top or upper part of the pipe with a horizontal pipe of similar
material to the first-named pipe, and external to the ceiling, and opening into
a chimney or flue. I place in this latter pipe a valve, but in some cases this
valve may be dispensed with.

page_text: My apparatus is represented in the accompanying Drawing; a is an
argand burner surrounded by a glass chimney; b is a porcelain, glass, or
earthenware pipe placed over the chimney; c is a transparent glass shade
fitted at the bottom of the pipe b; this shade may be either of the shape shewn
in the Drawing, or a globe open at bottom. The top or upper part of the
pipe 6 is connected with a horizontal pipe d of similar material to the pipe b,
external the the ceiling, and opening into a chimney or flue e; f is a valve in
the pipe d, but this valve may be dispensed with.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the combination
of parts forming a gas lighting and ventilating apparatus, substantially as
herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Thomas Wakefield, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of September One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.