GLOBE REFLECTING STOVE FOR LIGHT AND HEAT
Year: 1816

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ENOCH
TONKIN, of the City Road, in the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, Stove
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Enoch Tonkin, did, by my petition, humbly repre-
sented to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that
I had, by much study, application, and expence, found out and invented
"A GLOBE REFLECTING STOVE FOR LIGHT AND HEAT," and which invention I
believed would be of much benefit and utility; that I, the said Enoch
Tonkin, was the first and true inventor thereof, and that the same had never
been made or used by any other person or persons to my knowledge or belief;
I therefore most humbly prayed that His said Majesty would be graciously
pleased to grant unto me, the said Enoch Tonkin, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
for the sole constructing, working, using, exercising, and selling of the said
Invention, and for all other benefit and advantage thereof, within England and
Wales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and also in all His said Majesty's
Colonies and Plantations abroad, for the term of fourteen years, according to
the Statute in that case made and provided; and whereas His said Majesty,
being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions that might be
for the public good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and
therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the

page_text: Twentieth day of March, in the fifty-sixth year of His reign, of His especial
grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, did grant unto me, the said
Enoch Tonkin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Enoch Tonkin,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, by myself and themselves, or by
my and their deputies, servants, and agents, or such others as I, the said
Enoch Tonkin, my executors, administrators, and 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 said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Domonion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and also in all His said
Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to me, the said
Enoch Tonkin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them,
should in my or their discretion seem meet; and that I, the said Enoch
Tonkin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, 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, privileges, and advantages therein-before
granted or mentioned to, be thereby granted unto me, the said Enoch Tonkin,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full
and term of fourteen years from. the date of the said Letters Patent then
next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended acccording to
the Statute in such case made and provided, and to the end that I, the said Enoch
Tonkin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, 'might
have and enjoy the full benefit and sole use and exercise of the said Invention,
according to His said Majesty's gracious intention therein-before déclared:
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said Enoch
Tonkin, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing, under the hand and seal of me, the said Enoch Tonkin, and cause
the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
two calendar months then next and immediately after the date of His said
Majesty's said Letters Patent, that then those His said Majesty's said Letters
Patent, and all liberties and advantages therein-before granted, should utterly
cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before contained to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Enoch Tonkin, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and declare that the Drawings or plans in the margin of these Presents num-
bered 1, 2, and 3, represent the general figure, construction, and appearance of
my Invention, called the Globe Reflecting Stove for Light and Heat, and
that its construction, uses, and advantages are as follow, that is to say :-
use.
The grate is contained within a circular inclosure, but which may be of any
other form, with sliding iron skreens or shades so constructed as to be capable
of being partly or entirely drawn out, and which being received into a half
sphre at the back of the grate, form, when drawn completely out in the front
of the grate, an entire sphre or globe, and being capable of being ornamented
according to any fanciful pattern, may be made to exhibit an elegant and pleasing
appearance, particularly in the summer season, and when the grate is not in
When completely pushed back these sliding shades appear, as in
number 2 of the said Drawings or plans in the margin of these Presents.
When drawn forwards and closed together in front, they appear as in number 1
of the said Drawings. Number 3 is a section of the stove with its appen-
dages. The said sliding skreens or shades may be thus partially drawn out,
so as by the increased or diminished draught to regulate the action of the
fire, which is in the centre of the spherical inclosure, and will also act as
refloctors, in addition to which they have the advantage of extinguishing the
fire at once by being entirely closed in front. The back of the grate, except
a small perpendicular grating to admit the escape of the smoke (or rather gas,
for the smoke by reason of its passage downward is resubmitted to the action
of the fire, and thus decomposed and consumed), is entirely closed, so as to
hide all view of the chimney; the bottom or basement of the stove supplies
a cavity under the grate, inclosed by a circular projection, within which is an
inclined hopper, and at the lowest part of which is a drawer for the reception
of the ashes and dust of the consumed fuel, which are thus capable of being
removed at once, and with little trouble or inconvenience, and until removed
are kept entirely out of sight.
In witness whereof, I, the said Enoch Tonkin, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the fifty-sixth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of
the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixteen.
ENOCH TONKIN. (L.S.)

page_text: J. D. HARVEY.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fifteenth day of May, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Enoch Tonkin came before our Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all
and everything 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.
Irrolled the same Fifteenth day of May, in the year above written.