A MACHINE FOR WASHING AND BLEACHING OF LINEN AND OTHER ARTICLES, AND FOR COOKING, BY MEANS OF STEAM, WITH A ROASTER OR HOT OVEN AND WARM CLOSET ATTACHED, ALL HEATED BY THE SAME FIRE
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
SAVAGE, of Oxford Street, in the Parish of Saint Mary-le-bone, in the
County of Middlesex, Tinplate Worker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third
did, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the
Fourth day of March, in the fifty-first year of His reign, give and grant unto
me, the said Edward Savage, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Edward
Savage, my executors, administrators, and assigns, during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
my Invention of "A MACHINE FOR WASHING AND BLEACHING OF LINEN AND
OTHER ARTICLES, AND FOR COOKING, BY MEANS OF STEAM, WITH A ROASTER OR HOT
OVEN AND WARM CLOSET ATTACHED, ALL HEATED BY THE SAME FIRE," within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as
to me, the said Edward Savage, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should in our discretion seem meet; in which said Letters Patent is contained
a proviso that if I, the said Edward Savage, 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 two calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties

page_text: and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent, relation being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edward Savage, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, is particularly described and
ascertained in the Drawings hereunto annexed and the following description
thereof and references thereto (that is to say):
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The Drawings marked A represent the machine fixed complete, as at work,
upon a small and large scale, which may be made of various shapes and sizes;
B, the boiler, which may be made of tin, copper, or iron, or any other metal
or metals or compound of metals. The water, not communicating with any
other part of the machine, is always perfectly clean, and may be drawn off'
at the cock C for any purpose that hot water may be wanted. Inside the
boiler I place a hollow ball or float, with the wire D to come through the
top to shew the depth of water in the boiler. To each or either side of the
boiler I attach the oven or ovens E, which may be made of copper, tin, or iron,
or any other metal or metals or compound of metals, the bottom of which
must stand the fire. I then place the pipe F (see Sections 1 and 2) through
the boiler, as near the bottom as possible, to convey fresh air, heated by means
of the water in the boiler, into the oven or ovens to carry off at the pipe G
(Sections 1 and 2) on the opposite side or top any foul smell that may
arise from the burning of fat or grease or anything else that may be cooking
in the said oven or ovens. Over the said boiler and oven or ovens I fix my
steamer or steamers H, which may be made of copper, tin, or iron, or any
other metal or metals or compound of metals, or the sides thereof may be
made of wood. The steamer or steamers may be made to cover the whole of
the boiler and oven or ovens or otherwise, except a small part of the boiler,
where I put in the water, as at the cover I (Section 3). In the bottom of
the said steamer or steamers I fix two or more valves, one to let off the
steam, when it is not wanted in the steamer or steamers, at the pipe K
(Section 3), which may be conveyed through a condenser and produce distilled
water, as at L, in Drawings marked A, or carried off any way most con-
venient; the other valve or valves to let the steam directly into the steamer
or steamers for the purpose of washing or cooking; part of the steamer or
steamers I cover in, as at M (Section 3), into which I fix any number of
saucepans or stewpans, which may be made of silver, tin, copper, or iron, or
any other metal or metals or compound of metals, or of china, delft, or earthen-
ware, or other material applicable to that purpose. To the other part of the

page_text: said steamer or steamers I make one, two, or more covers, as most convenient,
according to the size. On the opposite to where the steam enters I fix a
pipe or pipes near the top to carry off the steam, as at N (Section 3). The.
cock or cocks O is to draw off the water or suds from the steamier when
washing. To fix the said machine I have an iron plate at P (Section 3),
on which the machine stands, the boiler directly over the fire, leaving a suffi-
cient space for the flue between the bottom of the machine and the said iron
plate. On one side of the fire I make my roaster, which may be made of
iron, tin, or copper, or any other metal or metals or compound of metals, or
it may be built in stone or artificial stone or brickwork; and on the opposite
side, in like manner, I make my hot closet, and each shut in with a door, as
at Q, into which I make a passage for fresh air by the side or back of the
fire, as at R (Section 4), to convey off on the opposite side, as at S (Section
4), any foul smell that may arise from the burning of fat, grease, &c., by
which means the meat, fowls, &c. are roasted perfectly sweet, as when done
before the fire. The fire that boils the water for tea or other domestic
purposes (the steam of which is acting in the steamer) at the same time heats
the oven, roaster, and hot closet, and at a much less expence than any other
method. The said iron plate and fireplace should be fixed in stone or arti-
ficial stone or brickwork for domestic purposes; but to make them portable
for camps or suitable for the navy, or where brick and stone are inconvenient,
an iron frame may be made for the whole to stand upon.
To use the said machine for washing or cleansing of linen, cotton, muslin,
&c., first soap your cloaths into hot water or lye, and give one rubbing in
the usual way of washing; wring them out of those dirty suds, and lay them
on a rack in the steamer (which rack may be made of wood or any other
material that will not injure the linen); put on the cover, and let on the
steam; then make some strong suds, and pour over them while in the
steamer; let them steam an hour or more, according to the thickness of the
articles or the dirt that is in them, in the course of which time draw off the
suds that run through the cloaths, and pour over them three or four times;
then take them out of the suds, rinse them in cold water, and they will be
perfectly clean.
For cooking by steam, when the water boils, place a dish or shallow pan in
the steamer; put your meat, fish, fowls, or vegetables on a rack or stand in
the dish or pan; put on the cover; let on the steam; keep the water
boiling, and the meat, fish, fowls, vegetables, &c. will be cooked in a much
better manner and in the same length of time as by boiling in water, and in
the discharge pan under the meat, fowls, &c. you will have a quantity of very

page_text: rich gravy. For roasting or baking, place your meat, fowls, pies, &c. in the
roaster or oven, and it will be cooked in the sweetest, cleanest, and best
possible manner, and with considerably less fuel than by any other means.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Savage, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eleven.