A MACHINE UPON AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUC- TION, WHICH I CALL THE BRITISH BOILER, TO BE USED IN ALL HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES WHERE BOILING IS REQUIRED, AND IS PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE AND BENEFICIAL TO ALL TRADES AND MANUFACTURES WHERE BOILING, WASHING, DISTILLING, OR EVAPORA- TING, AND IN ALL MILLS AND WORKS WHERE THE POWER OF STEAM IS MADE USE OF, AND UPON ALL OCCASIONS WHERE ANY LIQUID SAND, OR SUBSTANCE IS REQUIRED TO BE HEATED, AS IT WILL BE A MOST MATERIAL AND CONSIDERABLE SAVING IN THE ARTICLE OF FUEL OF ALL KINDS, AND WILL PERFORM ITS SEVERAL OPERATIONS IN A MORE EXPE- DITIOUS MANNER THAN BY THE MODES HITHERTO PRACTISED
Year: 1787

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
REINECKE, late of Little Bell Alley, Coleman Street, in the City of London,
now of Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, Gentleman, 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
the Third day of February, in the twenty-seventh year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said John Reinecke, His especial licence that I, the said
John Reinecke, during the term of years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Ber-
wick upon Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE UPON AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUC-
TION, WHICH I CALL THE BRITISH BOILER, TO BE USED IN ALL HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES
WHERE BOILING IS REQUIRED, AND IS PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE AND BENEFICIAL TO
ALL TRADES AND MANUFACTURES WHERE BOILING, WASHING, DISTILLING, OR EVAPORA-
TING, AND IN ALL MILLS AND WORKS WHERE THE POWER OF STEAM IS MADE USE OF,
AND UPON ALL OCCASIONS WHERE ANY LIQUID, SAND, OR SUBSTANCE IS REQUIRED TO BE
HEATED, AS IT WILL BE A MOST MATERIAL AND CONSIDERABLE SAVING IN THE ARTICLE
OF FUEL OF ALL KINDS, AND WILL PERFORM ITS SEVERAL OPERATIONS IN A MORE EXPE-
DITIOUS MANNER THAN BY THE MODES HITHERTO PRACTISED;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Reinecke, under
my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said In-
vention, and how the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesties
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the said recited

page_text: 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
John Reinecke, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in the
annexed plan and description thereof.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of March, in the
year of our Lord 1787, the aforesaid John Reinecke came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and everything 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.
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it is natural that the greatest part of it will be lost for the purpose intended. But such is merely the case in all operations and protes
essions employed in young, vaporwany o was
as they are hitherto commonly managed Consequently the intended aim of those operations will be obtained with a considerable quantity of fuels by grounding them upon a principle opposite
in this respect, and of the manner in which Imake the application of that principle, arise at the same time such advantages for the economy of Vessels, Brickwork Chimneys &c, that I flat-
-ter myself they are an object worthy their attention. The general method of giving the heat in all operations of boiling evaporating or distilling, as commonly in use at present, is
as follows. Avessel of any metal is fixed in brick work or stone, the fire being put underneath the copper in such a manner that the heat thereof operates on its bottom and part-
-ly on its sides, but it exercises this action but for an instant, and then it goes out at the Chimney by the hole of the Brick work which contains the Copper The Copper being of metal, which
is the best conducter of the heat communicates it very quick and consequently in a great degree to the surrounding air, and the' by this leading power the heat is communicated to the
fluid contained in the Copper, yet by the very same power it must also be carried out of it again, in respect of so much time, the fluid still remains in the Copper and of the more lea-
-ding nature of the metal. It is much the same case with the Brick or stone frame which encompasses the Copper The great mass of stones attracts the heat eagerly requires a great deal
of it to be saturated with, and being so it communicates to the air, Every one who has opportunity to observe how much heat and time is required to make boil a vessel full of water and con-
-tained in a great frame of Brickwork; and also how long this Brickwork still remains hot even after the fire is gone, and finally how great a degree of warmness reigns round the said
Brickwork will be compleatly convinced thereof. The greatest part of the heat loses itself through the Chimney which is made so clear by ocular witness that it needs no further proof. Instead
of a Boiler of metal which occasions a great loss of heat by its being the best Conducter of it. I make use of a vessel of wood, which in comparison with metal is no conduter at all, and
how great this difference is, and consequently how much heat must be gained by it, we will be convinced of by an experiment very simple in its nature viz. By help of the machine I
going to give an account of water may be boiled in an Iran heaped vessel made of wood, clap your hand on the wood, and you will find it but temperately warm, when on the con
trary you will hardly be able to hear the heat, clapping your hands to the Iron hoops, the they are at a greater distance from the warning power. Instead of the Oven commonly consis-
-ting of a mass of brick work which appropriates to itself so great a part of the heat and deprives the fluid of it, and then communicates it to the air. I make use of a stove which being
put fire into, in that very moment it receives the heat communicates, it not to the atmosphere, but to the body only intended to be acted upon by it (viz) to the fluid itself in which the
stove stands, and by which it is surrounded. Finally instead of losing the greatest part of the heat by the Chimney as it is the case in the common way. Iuse the very same chimney
like a stove, and by these means the artists are enabled to reap more and greater advantages of this part of the heat than by any other hitherto invented. As much of the principle it-
-self, the chief point now will be how to appropriate and employ it. Have a Vessel or Tub made of Wood which by way of a Bathing stove is rendered fit for the purpose, this vessel or
tub is principally distinguished from the common ones in that particular that it is narrower at the bottom than at the top, forming an upside down cone, and more or less so
as the operation does require. See Figure AA, aa, For this Tub must be made a stove (BB) of any kind of metal, answerable however to the nature of the fluid, it may
be made either of a substance subject of melting, or of such that it is not liable to it, as it stands entirely in the fluid, The figure of the stove, its diameter, its height, and
its dimensions answerable to the Tub may be minutely determined, yet each different case requiring different alterations, it is almost impossible to state a general rule.
The joining figure is of the following dimensions (viz) the tub is 3 feet high, the utmost diameter A. A is 2 feet, and the smallest a, a, one foot. The stove is one foot high, the lar
-gest diameter BB, 14 inches and the smallest seven inches. The stove has got three openings which are led through the Tub by way of pipes and there must be made waterproof
the' any able workman that understands seldering will know without further explaining how this combination is to be done. Yet Idont think it unnecessary to remark that in this
case the common way of making waterproof is not to be depended namely, a piece of greased canvas or leather being tacked round the place; a better method would be to make a notch
round the hole the pipe is to be led through, to be lined with such metal which easily may be soldered & soldering upon that lining the pipe which for such purpose ought to have a pro-
-portionable border. The first opening in the stove is that by which the fire is lighted and be supplied with fuels, this hole may be made any where and in any shape or size, in the joining
figure, it is in C on the uppermost part of the stove, in order that it may almost be filled up with fuels and for that purpose this opening should rather he inclining downward. To this
opening in the stove a pipe is soldered which goes thro the Fub and there is to be combined in such a manner as to be water proof. According to what I have said above respecting the prin-
be made of wood also for that very reason the tab should not have iron hoops or they
-ciples of the leading power, this pipe should not project on the outside of the tub, but there.
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ought to be covered with any thing less subject to the leading power. The figure shews a pipe of 4 inches square; for great operations it ought to have two shutters, the one (d) shutting the
opening (c), in the stove a wooden handle may be fixed to it for the better managing it and without burning one hands, the other (o) on the outside of the Tub is to be of wood according
to the stated principle. The second opening in the stove is where the ashes fall through and at the same time to give draught to the air, for this end an iron grate as large as the open-
-ing in that part of the stove is to be fixed at (b, c) the smaller diamter of the stove, to the opening also a pipe of 6inches diameter must be soldered in such a manner that the brake
is at about 2 inches distance from the bottom of the Tub, that the pipe goes through the Tub's bottom and projects a few inches from a better draught a mouth/f/of a larger diame
-ter may be fixed to that projecting part-Ishall not enter ut large how to fasten the stove in the Tub, it being a point which may be obtained very easily in many different manners, in
the joining figure it stands on a kind of Trivot of Iron. The third opening is that through which the smoke is carried out (should some particular purpose not require an exception,) this
must also be of an inferior diameter, than the receptacle for the ashes, as the air ought to go thro' a pipe being wide at the beginning and growing narrower and narrower. If the arcam
in (h)
-stances de permit this opening should be higher than that which serves for firing, this opening is in, g and is of four inches diameter, this pipe being of the same dimension goes
through the Tub and then is to be combined with the same as also to be made water proof, like the two others There remains to shew, how, according to my principles, the heat pro-
-duced by this smoke pipe muy also be made use of and he brought to advantage. The variety of the rim and araumstances may occasion various changes in this respect. I must
therefore likewise restrain myself to make some general remarks on that head. Again this generality consists that this pipe is to be made of but thin metal and of such as will agree
with the fluids, it may then be conducted through a vessel containing any fluid that is to be evaporated or distilled. This operation chiefly depending from the superficies of the
fluid, it is necessary that the vessel be constructed of a more flat a shallow than a deep form in order that this lesser degree of heat may be able of procuring the in
-tended effect. Not chusing however to have vessels made different to the common form, and yet there may be a large quantity of flind the aim may still be obtained by various ex-
pedients. For example, by means of a small stove being put in such a vessel, Or the smoke pipe being made in a sepentine form, or several of such smoke pipes being brought into one ves-
-sel (as there will be required? more than one of these machines in business of great extent and many more of such Expedients the artist will easily find out by practice. Moreover I
will be more explict upon this subject in a treatise Imean to publish and which I promise to join for the better convenience of the Public. In the same Treatise Imean to
mention all the arts trades and operations where my invented machine may be made use of, together with the alterations which will be required in different cases,