NEW INVENTED MACHINE FOR SEPARATING COALS, AND MY NEW INVENTED COMPOSITION FOR MAKING SMALL COALS INTO CAKES OR BRICKS TO BE USED FOR FUEL
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
FREDERIC CHABANNES, of Welbeck Street, in the Parish of Saint Mary-le-bone,
in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, do send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixteenth day of December, in the fortieth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said John Frederic Chabannes, my
exors, adiñiors, and assigns, His special licence, that I, the said John Frederic
Chabannes, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW INVENTED
MACHINE FOR SEPARATING COALS, AND MY NEW INVENTED COMPOSITION FOR MAKING
SMALL COALS INTO CAKES OR BRICKS TO BE USED FOR FUEL;" in which Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said John Frederic
Chabannes, under my hand and seal to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month next immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as
in and by the same, relation being thereto had, will more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Frederic Chabannes, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed and the
effects thereof are to be produced, is particularly described and ascertained as
follows (that is to say):-
Coals consisting of great and small, mixed together, such as are usually
bought in the pool in the River Thames for consumption in the cities of
London and Westminster and their environs, are to be discharged or thrown
upon grates or gratings of the description herein-after contained, which grates
or gratings are to be fixed either horizontally or on an inclined plane, and by
means of such discharge and throwing of the said coals, the small coals will be
separated from the large. The grates or gratings are to be constructed either
of wood or metal, and are to be of any length or breadth, suited to the place
where they are fixed, and to have bars at a distance from each other not less
than a quarter of an inch nor more than an inch and an half. The form of
these grates or gratings is particularly described in the plates or figures de-
lineated in the margin hereof. The composition is to consist of the small coals
so separated as above mentioned from the large coals and of a small quantity
of earth, clay, cowdung, tar, pitch, broken glass, sulphur, sawdust, oil cakes,
tan or wood, or of any other combustible ingredient, to be mixed together and
ground with a wheel in water in a wooden vessel. The composition, together
with the water, is then to be conveyed by pipes, or any other conductor, into
pits or holes, of any dimensions made for that purpose, to be lined with tiles or
bricks, cemented together with water, except in the centre, where a drain or
watercourse is to be cut below the pit or hole, and such drain or watercourse
is to be covered over with uncemented tiles, by which means the water will
pass off into the drain or watercourse and leave the composition in the pit or
hole. The composition is then to be moulded into bricks, cakes, or balls, and
put on a frame to dry, and when dry it is fit for use as fuel.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Frederic Chabannes, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Tenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred.
(L.S.) JOHN FREDERIC CHABANNES.
Sealed and delivered, being first duly stamped,

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourteenth day of January, in
the year of our Lord 1800, the aforesaid John Frederic Chabannes 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 Statutes made for that purpose.