A PORTABLE KITCHEN
Year: 1815

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
DEAKIN, of Ludgate Hill, in the City of London, Furnishing Ironmonger,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Gracious Majesty King George the Third, in and
by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Seventh day of March last past, for Himself, His
heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Deakin,
my executors, administra.ors, and assigns, His Majesty's special licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas Deakin, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and
themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as I, the said Thomas Deakin, my 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, exercise, and vend my Invention of "A PORTABLE KITCHEN" within
that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
the Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner
as to me, the said Thomas Deakin, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or any of them, shall in my or their discretions seem meet; and in which said

page_text: Letters Patent there is contained a proviso for making the same void in
case I, the said Thomas Deakin, should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause
the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as by the said Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso in the said
Letters Patent, I, the said Thomas Deakin, do hereby describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, and I have for that purpose made and prepared the Drawings hereunto
annexed, in which Figure 1 represents a section of the Invention, wherein A
shews a boiler with apertures on the top, to admit steamers or vessels for
boiling, such vessels being immersed in the water of the boiler; B shews a
roaster or oven; C shews a second oven, of a less degree of heat, and which by
introducing air through it, and being made a fixture, may be used to warm
one or more rooms in the house or a cabin of a ship, the heat being conducted
thereto by tubes of metal or earthenware; D and E shew the fire part, wherein
to burn coal; this.part.opens by two doors, the lower one to be open_when.
roasting, and the upper one when it is necessary to feed the fire; F shews
the flue to convey the smoke and heat between the oven and boiler; G. is the
pipe through which to discharge the smoke; II, II, shews a space to be filled
with loam or sand, to prevent the escape of heat at the back and side of
the ovens.
Figure 2 represents the-Invention-compleat for use, in which-B shews tho
door or entrance to the roaster or oven, marked B in the section, Figure 1,
before referred to; and C shews the door or entrance to the second oven;
marked C in the section, Figure 1, before referred to; D, D, shew the doors
for enclosing the fire part.
The whole I make of iron except the boiler, which may be made of that.
metal, or of brass, copper, or tin plates.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Fifth day
of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand- eight hundred

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fifth day of September, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Deakin came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.