A NEW KIND OF STOVE GRATES, OF WHICH THE FRONT BARRS OR PARTS THROUGH WHICH THE HEAT PASSES ARE CAST IN IRON OR OTHER METAL FROM THE MOST ELEGANT PATTERNS
Year: 1778

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WILLIAM
BENT, of Saint Martin's Lane, in the Liberty of Westminster, Ironmonger,
sends greeting.
WHEREAS His Majesty did, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of
Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-third day of
December last, in the nineteenth year of His reign, for Himself,, His heirs and
successors, give and grant unto the said William Bent, his exccutors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, His Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that be, the said William Bent, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his and their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said William
Bent, his executors, administrators, 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, excrcise, and
vend his new Invention of making "A NEW KIND OF STOVE GRATES, OF WHICH
THE FRONT BARRS OR PARTS THROUGH WHICH THE HEAT PASSES ARE CAST IN IRON OR
OTHER METAL FROM THE MOST ELEGANT PATTERNS," within that part of His
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said William
Bent, his executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in his or
their discretions seem meet, and that he and they should and lawfully might have
and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, 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, exercise, and enjoy
the said licence, powers, priviledges and advantages therein-before granted
unto the said William Bent, his executors, administrators, and assigns for and
during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of

page_text: the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat
and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if the said William Bent
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in
the High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters
Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should
utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the said Letters
Patent, reference being thereunto had, may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Bent, in pursuance of the
said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which the same
is to be performed as follows (that is to say):-
The front or barrs of the stove wherein the fire is contained called the body,
and through which the heat passes, must be made of cast iron or any metal in
the following manner; (to wit,) patterns or models of the fronts or barrs are first
made in wood or any other material or thing from which an impression can be
made or taken in the form of a fem, or may be made in a circle, semicircle,
eleptick, octagon, sexagon, or any ornamented form; the impression is then
taken in sand or loom, or a mixture of both, put into flasks or moulds
for casting; then soft or tough pig metal, called cast iron, is melted and poured
into the said moulds or places wherein the said impression is taken, when it
receives its form, and is not subject to be broke by heat like common cast
metal or cast iron. Such front or barrs may be cast in any other fluxable
metal. The front or barrs so made may be fixed or applied to any kind of
stoves, plain or ornamented with steel or any kind of metal, to which stoves
there may be a bottom to be wound or drawn out on one side by a rack and
pinnion.
In witness whereof, .I, the said William Bent, have hereto set my hand
and seal, the Twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the said Twenty-third day of April,
in the year above written, the said William Bent came before the said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the said Instrument was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth year
of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
inrolled the said I wenty-third day of April, in the year above said.