Year: 1816

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
DEAKIN, of Ludgate Hill, in the City of London, Furnishing Ironmonger, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Gracious Majesty King George the Third, by His Royal
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fifteenth day of January last, for Himself, His heirs and successors,
did give and grant unto the said Thomas Deakin, and to John Richard Haynes,
of Saint John Street, in the County of Middlesex, Furnishing Ironmonger,
their executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that the said Thomas Deakin and John Richard
Haynes, their executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by
themselves or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as
the said Thomas Deakin and John Richard Haynes, their executors, adminis-
trators, 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, within that part of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, in such manner
as to the said Thomas Deakin and John Richard Haynes, their executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in their discretion seem

page_text: meet, their Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED STOVE GRATE OR FIRE-PLACE;"
in which said Letters Patent are contained a proviso for making the same void
in case the said Thomas Deakin and John Richard Haynes, or one of them,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of their said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of them, and
cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, as in and by the same Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Deakin, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed (that is to say):-
We make of iron or other metal a reservoir or box to supply a stove with
coals, which reservoir or box we place behind the fire part of the stove, as shown
a, a, in the Drawing hereto annexed. In this box and the fire part communi-
cating therewith, coals are intended to be put once in each day. The box and
fire part should be made of capacity to contain coals sufficient for one day's
consumption. As the coals in the fire part consume, others in the box are wound
out of it into the fire by a screw B in the Drawing acting upon a plate within
the box, as after-mentioned; this screw may be turned by a poker or any other
pointed instrument, for which purpose the head of the screw should be perforated
with holes; the screw passes under the fire part, and the head of it is scen
beneath the front of it at C in the Drawing annexed. This screw passes to
and works in a female screw in an arm attached to a plate within the box,
shewn in the annexed Drawing by dotted lines. When the screw is turned one
way, it propels the plate forward, and thereby drives the coals into the fire part;
when the screw is turned the contrary way, it moves the the plate backwards.
Above the fire and over the mouth or entrance from the fire part to the box,
we form a register, as at D in the annexed Drawing, regulating an opening E
communicating with the chimney, by and through which opening the effluvia
which arises from the burning coals is carried off'; I say effluvia, because the
coals passing horizontally into the fire, the smoke is partially or wholly con-
sumed. This register we make to slide up and down in a frame, and the
register and its frame may be drawn out (the frame working with pins in
sockets) to carry off the smoke which necessarily arises at first lighting the
fire; but when once the fire has burnt clear, it is intended to push in the register
and draw it nearly down. The other parts of the stove are made in the usual
manner, of iron or other metals, and of various shapes according to the fancy

page_text: the
year
above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Deakin came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
And also the
all and everything therein contained, in form above written.
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Fifteenth day of July, in the year above written.