CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WARMING AIR
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Woodcock, of No. 36, Great George
Street, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, for the
Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WARMING AIR."
Sealed the 14th January 1859, and dated the 14th July 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Woodcock at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th July 1858.
I, WILLIAM WOODCOCK, of No. 36, Great George Street, Westminster, in
the County of Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WARMING AIR,"
to be as follows.:-
A pipe or pipes, cast in iron or other metal, with wings radiating trans-
versely from its or their outer surface, so as to cause a current of air when
such pipe or pipes and wings are heated, to pass upwards between the said
wings. Such pipe or pipes and wings may be cast in one or more castings,
provided the conducting power of the metal is not broken. The said pipe or
pipes and wings may be heated by steam, hot water, gas, or other suitable
means.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Woodcock in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th January 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WOODCOCK, of No. 36, Great George Street, Westminster, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said William Woodcock, Her special licence that I, the said
William Woodcock, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said William Woodcock, 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 therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WARMING AIR," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Woodcock, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Woodcock, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following.
statement, that is to say :-
-
A pipe or pipes, cast in iron or other metal, with wings radiating trans-
versely from its or their outer surface, so as to cause a current of air when
such pipe or pipes and wings are heated to pass upwards between the said
wings. Such pipe or pipes and wings may be cast in one or more castings,
provided the conducting power of the metal is not broken. The said pipe or
pipes and wings may be heated by steam, hot water, gas, or other suitable.
means.
The accompanying Drawing is of a pipe constructed according to my said
Invention. It represents a pipe (but there may be two or more pipes) with
wings radiating transversely from its outer surface (but such wings may

page_text: radiate at any suitable angle with its length). It is cast in one entire casting,
but it may be cast in any number of castings, provided the conducting power
of the metal is not broken (that is, that the receiving surface shall be an
entire casting with the transmitting and diffusing or radiating surface).
My said Invention is intended to be heated with steam, hot water, gas, or
any other suitable means. I lay no claim to an apparatus with radiating
wings used as a stove or furnace, with fire bars therein; but what I do claim
as my Invention is a pipe or pipes with wings, as before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Woodcock, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
WILLIAM WOODCOCK. (L.S.)