IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR HATCHING EGGS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Theophilus Horrex, of Number 13, South Square,
Gray's Inn, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR HATCHING EGGS."
Sealed the 29th November 1867, and dated the 3rd June 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Theophilus Horrex at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd June 1867.
I, THEOPHILUS HORREX, of Number 13, South Square, Gray's Inn, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said.
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR HATCHING EGGS," to be as.
follows:-
My improvements consist in the following arrangement, method, or mode
of making or constructing machines for hatching eggs, in order to simplify
and cheapen the making of such machines. I adopt a flat case of metal or .
other material to hold water or other fluid fixed in or upon a box or frame;
and under the lower end of the flat case holding the water, which is rounded
for the purpose, I place a small lamp or gas burner; but I prefer a small tray
of tin or other metal partly filled with oil, upon which is floated a wick and
placed under the lower or rounded end of the flat case holding the water, so
as to heat the water or fluid therein. Under the other or higher end of the
flat case holding the water I place a box or tray of a wedge-like form for the
eggs to be placed in; by the box or tray being of this shape or form the eggs.

page_text: can be placed close to or at a distance from the under surface of the flat case
holding the water or fluid by slightly pushing the box or tray forward or with-
drawing it in a wedge-like manner, by which means the heat of the eggs can
be regulated. Around the top of the box or tray I fasten tubing or list, or
other material to prevent the beat escaping, and I partly fill the box or tray
with sand or other material to assimilate it to the ordinary hen's nest.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Theophilus Horrex in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd December 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THEOPHILUS
HORREX, of No. 13, South Square, Gray's Inn, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Theophilus Horrex, Her special licence that I, the said Theophilus Horrex,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Theophilus Horrex, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINES FOR HATCHING EGGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Theophilus Horrex, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Theophilus Horrex, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
My improvements consist in the following arrangement, method, or mode
of making or constructing machines for hatching eggs, in order to simplify

page_text: and cheapen the making of such machines. I adopt a flat case of metal or
other material to hold water or other fluid fixed in or upon a box, frame, or
stand in an inclined position, and at one end of the box or frame and under
the lower end of the flat case holding the water, which is rounded for the
purpose, I place a small lamp or gas burner, but I prefer a small tray of tin
or other metal partly filled with oil, upon which is floated a wick and placed
under the lower or rounded end of the flat case holding the water, so as to
heat the water or fluid therein.
Under the other or higher end of the flat
case holding the water I place a box or tray of a wedge-like form for the eggs
to be placed in; by the box or tray being of this shape or form the eggs can
be placed close to or at a distance from the under surface of the flat case
holding the water or fluid by slightly pushing the box or tray forward or
withdrawing it in a wedge-like manner, by which means the heat of the eggs
can be regulated. Around the top of the box or tray I fasten tubing, or list,
or other material to prevent the heat escaping, and I partly fill the box or
tray with sand or other material to assimilate it to the ordinary hen's nest.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed more fully
to describe the manner of performing the same.
The accompanying Drawings illustrate the manner in which my Invention
is to be or may be made or performed.
Figure 1 is partly an end elevation, and partly a longitudinal or side
elevation and section.
A is the flat case to hold the water; B, the box or frame in which the flat
case is fixed; C is the tin tray for holding oil; D is the box or tray of a
wedge-like form for the eggs to be placed in; E is the tubing or list
round the top of the box or tray B; F represents the thermometer. Figure 2
shews the flat case separated from the box or frame. Figure 3 shews the box
or tray of a wedge-like form for holding the eggs separated from the box or
frame. Figure 4 shews the tin tray for holding the oil, also separated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Theophilus Horrex, have hereunto set
my band and seal, this Second day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
THEOPH. HORREX. (L.S.)