ROASTING CocoA NUTS
Year: 1795

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
STORRS FRY, of the City of Bristol, Chocolate Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Seventh day of May, in the thirty-fifth year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Storrs Fry, His especial licence,
that I, the said Joseph Storrs Fry, during the term of years therein men-
tioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "ROASTING
CocoA NUTS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said Joseph Storrs Fry, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being
thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Storrs Fry, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
manner following (that is to say):—
My fireplace is so constructed of brickwork or other materials as that the
fire bars are elevated about fifteen inches from the ground to admit a free
access of air. The bars are seven inches long and three quarters of an inch
square, lying apart three quarters of an inch, and sixteen in number, forming
a floor or bed of bars two feet long by seven inches wide. The fireplace is
then built up on all four sides sixteen inches, spreading each way, so as to
measure at the top two feet two inches the longest way, and twenty inches the

page_text: narrowest way, leaving at the top of the back side two apertures or horizontal
flues three inches square, equally distant from each end of the fireplace and
from each other. Three flues are covered with the iron frame hereafter described
and conducted to a proper chimney. On the top of the brickwork, brought
up as above, I have fixed a flat cast-iron frame six inches wide, with a rim
standing up one inch and an half all round the inner side against the fire. I
have then a semicylindrical cover of rolled iron plate (with proper handles for
lifting on and off') to fit round this rim, so as to admit no air to the fire except-
ing through the bars. I have then a cylindrical roaster of rolled iron plate,
twenty-three inches long and seventeen in diameter, fixed on an iron bar
through the center, which has rounded bearings about two inches from each
end of the cylinder, and a winch at one end, when this cylinder is placed over
the fire, the said bearings resting on two semicircular notches at the middle of
ench end of the rim before described; there are notches also at each end of
the cover to go over or clipp the center spit or bar of the roaster, yet very
close, that as little air as possible may find admission to the fire that way. I
use in this fireplace only that sort of coal which is known by the name of
Tenby coal, or stone coal, and coke or cinders made from common pit coal,
which I find much cheaper than the accustomed method, and to communicate
no flavour to the cocoa nuts. My cylinder holds about fifty pounds of cocoa
nuts, and is gently turned by the winch till the contents are roasted, which is
usually in about three quarters of an hour.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Storrs Fry, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand covon hundred and ninate fiv
MORGAN, Extra.
JOSEPH STORRS FRY. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of May, in
the year of our Lord 1795, the aforesaid Joseph Storrs Fry came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the First day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
sovon hundred and ninety-five