AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR A STILL AND BOILER FOR PREVENTING ACCIDENTS BY FIRE, AND FOR PRESERVING SPIRITS AND OTHER ARTICLES FROM WASTE IN THE OPERATION OF DISTILLING AND. BOILING
Year: 1813

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANK
PARKINSON, of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull, Distiller, send greeting....
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourth day of September, did, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Frank Parkinson, 'His especial
licence that I, the said Frank Parkinson, my exors, adñors, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Frank Parkinson, my exors, admors, or assigns,
should at any tinie agree with, and no others, from time to time and-at-all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, and also within all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad; my Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR A STILL AND BOILER FOR
PREVENTING ACCIDENTS BY FIRE, AND FOR PRESERVING SPIRITS AND OTHER ARTICLES
FROM WASTE IN THE OPERATION OF DISTILLING AND. BOILING;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Frank
Parkinson, by an instrument in writing under my band and seal, particularly
to describe and ascertain the nature of my Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Frank Parkinson, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascer-

page_text: tained in the Plan hereunto annexed, and in the explanation thereof following
(that is to say):-
I construct a dish or conductor with a spout or a pipe or pipes made of a
sheet or sheets of copper, or of any other metal or metals or compound or
mixture of metals (but I prefer copper), which I affix by means of rivets
and solder (both or either) upon the breast or any other more convenient part
of the still, with hard or soft solder as may be required from the degree of
heat the article distilled may boil at, or I construct the dish and spout part
in any other manner, so as to answer the same the same purpose, or I affix
it in any other manner to prevent the spirit and other inflammable manner in
case the still boils over, and breaks the luting, and forces the head up or off
from getting between the still and brickwork into the wheel, flue, or furnace, or
from running over the top of the brickwork into the furnace door. The dish
may extend two or three feet from the still, or it may at pleasure cover
entirely the top of the brickwork, which as well as the dish must be made
zhollow, and have a fall towards the still, and thence to the spout or pipe or
pipes. The receiver may be placed between the still and worm tub, or the
liquid or other matter may be carried through an aperture in the wall into
another room or place. The spirit or inflammable matter so boiling over
where the head fits on is thereby kept entirely free from the fire. The
letters a, a, a, a, a, denote the improvement of my Patent. For boilers
take the still head off, and the same rivetting and dish principle applies to
boilers for oil and all other inflammable matter, whether the boilers are
shaped like a still or open at the top like boilers in the usual way. The
receiver must be attached in the same manner as directed in the still; the dish
and spout part applies, whether made of cast or wrought iron, or any other
metal or metals or compound or mixture of metals, and fastened by
means of rivets, iron, or other cement, or otherwise constructed, made or
fastened.
"In witness whereof, I, the said Frank Parkinson, have hereunto set
-my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being
first lawfully stampt) in the pre-
FRANK PARKINSON. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventeenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1813, the aforesaid Frank Parkinson came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twentieth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirteen.