A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO HEATING AND BOILING OF LIQUIDS OF ANY KIND OR DESCRIPTION
Year: 1849

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALEXANDER
WILKINS, Brewer, and WILLIAM STACEY, Engineer, both of Bradford, in the
County of Wilts, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirtieth day
of January, One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in the twelfth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Alexander Wilkins and William Stacey, our exors, adñiors, and
assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
we, the said Alexander Wilkins and William Stacey, our exors, adññiors, and
assigns, and such others as we, the said Alexander Wilkins and William
Stacey, our exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times 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, our Invention of
"A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO HEATING AND BOILING
OF LIQUIDS OF ANY KIND OR DESCRIPTION;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that we, the said Alexander Wilkins and William Stacey,
or one of us, should cause a particular description of the nature of our said

page_text: Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us,
to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Alexander Wilkins and William Stacey, do hereby declare that the nature of
our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are
fully described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
reference being had to the Drawing hercunto annexed, and to the figures and
letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
This Invention or improvement consists in heating or boiling liquids of any
description by applying the heat given by the ordinary or any other fire
supporting a common furnace, copper, or boiler, and also the unemployed and
surplus heat given by such furnace, copper, or boiler, by means of pipes,
conduits, and tubes, without any additional fuel being required for heating or
boiling such liquids. The vessel containing the liquid to be heated or boiled
consists of cast iron, or may be made of any material suitable for the purpose
of holding the liquid required, and is placed contiguous to the furnace or boiler
from whence the heat is derived, or it may be placed disconnected from the
said furnace or boiler. The said vessel to be square or of any other shape
that may be adapted to the position in which it is required to be placed; around
the furnace or boiler from whence the said heat is derived is placed a metallic
tube or conduit resting on the flues of the fire-place to such furnace or boiler,
and communicating with the vessel containing the liquid to be heated or
boiled. On the lower part of the furnace or boiler from whence the said heat
is derived, and below the last-mentioned tube or conduit, are placed a number
(according to the size of the furnace or boiler) of small pipes or tubes
surrounding the said furnace or boiler, and also communicating with the said
vessel containing the liquid to be heated or boiled; and in the bottom of the
said vessel containing the liquid to be heated or boiled are placed a number
(according to the size of the vessel required) of inverted conical tubes descend-
ing into the flue of the fire supporting the said furnace or boiler from whence
the said heat is derived. The said vessel containing the liquid required to. be
heated or boiled being filled with the required liquid, such liquid at once com-
municates with and fills the before-mentioned tubes, conduits, and pipes, and
the said large and small tubes, conduits, and pipes being surrounding the said
.

page_text: furnace or boiler, thereby receive a constant supply of heat from the fire sup-
porting the said furnace or boiler, as also from the furnace or boiler itself, and
the inverted conical tubes descending as before mentioned into the flue of the
said furnace or boiler, thereby constantly receive a support of heat from the
fire passing through such flue, by means of which the liquid contained in
the vessel referred to can be heated to any lesser or to a boiling degree.
fire passing through such flue, by means of which the liquid contained in
the vessel referred to can be heated to any lesser or to a boiling degree.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
B is a common boiler or copper, such as is commonly used by brewers and
others; C is the vessel placed close to the boiler or copper B, made the size
required for holding the quantity of liquids to be heated or boiled; T is the
metal tube or conduit placed round the boiler or copper B, and connected to
the vessel C, resting on the flue V; X, X, are smaller tubes placed round the
boiler or copper and in the flue V; O is inverted conical tubes set in the
bottom of the vessel C, and descending into the flue V. Figure 1, the fire-
hole; Figure 2, the ash-hole; and 3, 3, is a section of the masonry.
We claim the Invention of heating and boiling liquids by applying the heat
from a common or any other fire supporting any furnace, copper, or other
boiler, and also by the application of the unemployed or surplus heat given by
such fire, furnace, copper, or other boiler, by means of tubes, conduits, and
pipes to the vessel containing the liquid required to be heated or boiled, without
any expenditure of more fuel than is required to support the said furnace,
copper, or boiler.
In witness whereof, the the said Alexander Wilkins and William Stacey,
have hereunto set their hands and scals, this Twentieth day of
July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
forty-ninc.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the within-named Alexander
Wilkins and William Stacey
in the presence of
ALEXANDER (L.S.) WILKINS.
WILLIAM (L.S.) STACEY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1849, the aforesaid William Stacey came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.