THE SALISBURY PORTABLE KITCHEN FOR ROASTING, BOILING, OR BAKING ANY KIND OF PROVISION IN ANY ROOM OR IN THE OPEN AIR, WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF A COMMON FIREPLACE, AND WHICH MIGHT BE MOVED FROM PLACE TO PLACE AT PLEASURE
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,'
WILLIAM REDMAN, of Salisbury, in the County of Wilts, Tinplate Worker,
sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS His Sovereign Majesty King George the Third, by His Royal
Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-ninth day of June, in the twentieth year of His reign,
reciting, amongst other things, that the said William Redman had, by his
Petition, represented to His said Majesty that, by great study, labour, and
expence, he, the said William Redman, had invented and brought to perfec-
tion a certain new Invention called "THE SALISBURY PORTABLE KITCHEN FOR
ROASTING, BOILING, OR BAKING ANY KIND OF PROVISION IN ANY ROOM OR IN THE
OPEN AIR, WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF A COMMON FIREPLACE, AND WHICH MIGHT
BE MOVED FROM PLACE TO PLACE AT PLEASURE," His said Majesty did, by the said
Letters Patent, give and grant unto the said William Redman, his executors,'
admors, and assigns, His said Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that he, the said William Redinan, his executors,
aduiors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his
or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said
William Redman, his exors, adññiors, 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, exer-
cise, and vend his said Invention within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom*
of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Ber-
'

page_text: wick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said William Redman, his
executors, admors, and assigns, should, in his and their discretions, seem meet,
and that he, the said William Redman, his executors, admors, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, com-
modity, 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, use, exercise, and enjoy the said licence,
powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be
granted unto the said William Redman, his executors, admors, and assigns,
for and during and unto the full end term of fourteen years from the date of
the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be com-
pleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided;
in which said Letters Patent is, amongst other things, contained a provisoe
that if the said William Redman should not particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is
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 and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all libertys and advan-
tages 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, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully appear.
NOW THESE PRESENTS WITNESSETH, that in pursuance of the said
Letters Patent, and in conformity to the provisoe therein contained, the said
William Redman hath described and ascertained, and by these Presents doth
fully and particularly describe and ascertain, the nature of his said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be made, that is to say :-
The body or furnace is made oval or round, of wrought or cast iron, tin,
or copper. Within it is placed a grate for the fire, and in the upper part a
pot for boiling with water and steam, or a plate for baking. Underneath the
fire is a vacuity open in the front, serving as a receptacle for the ashes as well
as admitting a current of air to pass through the fire, thereby carrying off any
smoke or dust through a tube or funnell affixed. A front is fixed to the
furnace before the fire, which joins close to a reflector, purposely to confine
the heat so as to roast and boil, or do either seperately, with a very small
quantity of fire. The reflector is made of tin, brass, or copper. A spit goes
through it, and at the bottom a dripping pan is so fixed as to draw off the
gravey, that the meat may be easily basted at a door which is made on the

page_text: top or any other convenient part. A gridiron may be fixed occasionally in
the place of the spit for broiling, with an additional reflector placed obliquely
underneath it, or occasionally an iron plate may be placed in the reflector for
the purpose of baking. They may also be made with two reflectors, to fix to
the same body, for roasting two or more joints at once; which is a full and
true description of the said Invention.
In witness whereof, the said William Redman hath hereunto set his
hand and seal, the Twenty-seventh day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped) in the presence of us.
WILLIAM REDMAN. (L.B.)
S. Cooper.
THO CHURR
S. Cooper.
The CHURR
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twenty-seventh day of
October, in the year above mentioned, the said William Redman 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 King
William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of October, in the year above mentioned.