A CERTAIN KILN FOR THE PURPOSE OF DRYING MALT OR OTHER GRAIN
Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
PEPPER, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the County of Stafford, Builder and
Architect, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Ninth day of June, in the thirty-
sixth year of His reign, hath given and granted unto me, the said John Pepper,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, special licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, during the term of years therein expressed, to make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A CERTAIN KILN FOR THE PURPOSE OF DRYING
MALT OR OTHER GRAIN;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso, obliging me, the said John Pepper particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next after
the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, ], the said
John Pepper, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained in
the plans hereunto annexed, and the following description, that is to say :-
Number 1 is the ground plan, supposed to be twenty feet square, but if
required larger or smaller, by following the same proportion, may be made

page_text: ngreeable to any size or situation. The dark shaded walls rise four feet high
to put the reflector upon over the fire, and also what the side arches stand
upon. The brick piers that carry the spark stone and bearers that the tiles
lie upon. Letter A, fire grate, lies nine inches below the bottom edge of the
reflector; 13, bottom edge of the reflector; C, C, C, C, brick pillars, nine inches
square, that carry the spark stone; D, D, D, D, D, D brick pillars, nine inches
square, that carry the bearers for the floor tiles to lie upon; E shows the
bottom of the side arches on each side of the kiln; Fshews the space between
the fire-place and the side arches for the man to go round to clean the kiln;
G, the wall on each sido the kiln that the side arches stand upon.
No. 2, section G, shews the section of the wall which the side arches stand
upon; II, door to go to the fire-place; I, the reflector, of cast iron, that covers
the fire; K, small door in the reflector to feed the firo; L, L, the cars of the
reflector that the iron pipes are fitted upon, which convey the smoke and heat
from the reflector round the kiln to the chimney; M, what is commonly called
the sparke stone. It prevents the kiln from being too hot in the middle, and
assists in spreading the heat to the outsides. N, bearers, of cast iron or wood,
that carry the kiln floor; O, O, shews the ends of the ribs that carry the
tiles; P, the kiln tiles that the malt lies upon; Q, the steam pipo that
conveys the steam from the malt; C, C, brick pillars, nine inches square, that
carry the spark stone; D, D, brick pillars nine inches square that carry the
bearers for the flour tiles to lic upon; E, E, shews the arches on cach side the
kiln; U, U, shews the situation of the pipes under the floor.
No. 3, plan of the kiln floor, shews the ribs that the kiln tiles lio upon.
0, 0, the cast-iron or wood ribs that the tiles lie upon; N, the bearers that
carry the ribs; D shews the top of brick pillars that carry the bearers, &c;
B, the reflector that covers the fire, of cast-iron, about an inch thick, hollow,
and on a semicircular plan, as shewed in the Drawings; R, R, the iron pipes
that convey the smoke and heat from the reflector round the kiln to the
chimney, which lies about three feet under the kiln floor, and about the same
distance from the side walls, which are supported by iron stays from the sido
arches; S, S, shews the end of the iron pipes that go into the chimney;
T, T, registers to regulate the draught and heat. N.B.-the pillars, bearers,
&c. that belong to the same thing are marked with the same letters in all the
plans.
In witness whereof, J, the said John Pepper, havo hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and ninety- ix.
JOHN (L.s.) PEPPER.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Sixteenth day of June, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Pepper 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.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of June, in the year above written.