AN IMPROVED PERFORATED FIRE-CLAY GAS BURNER ADAPTED FOR HEATING OR COOKING PURPOSES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Verity and Benjamin Verity, both of
127, Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED PERFORATED FIRE-CLAY GAS BURNER ADAPTED FOR
HEATING OR COOKING PURPOSES."
Sealed the 26th March 1872, and dated the 11th December 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Verity and
Benjamin Verity at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 11th December 1871.
WILLIAM VERITY and BENJAMIN VERITY, both of 127, Regent
Street, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED PERFORATED FIRE-CLAY GAS Burner
ADAPTED FOR HEATING OR COOKING PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
The burners to be made in fire-clay or any similar material or
materials, and in shape or shapes either square, circular, or oval, and ·
of any and every size. The aforesaid burners to burn plain gas or air

page_text: and gas combined; & to be used, adapted, or applied to any stove,
grate, or fire-place, or for any heating or cooking purposes what-
soever.
The aforesaid burner or burners are to be fixed either as shewn in
plan No. 1 or as shewn in plan No. 2, or any other suitable position. The
whole of burner or burners, as shewn in either of the aforesaid plans,
are to be enclosed with a preparation of mixed fire-clay and asbestos;
the front and top sides to be enclosed with a layer of black fire-clay or
any suitable material.
They do not claim for the iron tubes or for the several fire-clays as
aforesaid used to conceal the said burner or burners; but they claim for
the burner only, whether made of fire-clay or any other similar material
or materials, and for the arrangement of the said burners as herein-
before mentioned, and whether to be used for plain gas or air and gas
combined, or to be applied, adapted, or used for any heating purposo
whatsoever.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Verity and Benjamin Verity in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th April 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
VERITY and BENJAMIN VERITY, of 127, Regent Street, in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said William Verity and Benjamin Verity,
Her special licence that we, the said William Verity and Benjamin
Verity, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said William Verity and Benjamin Verity, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no

page_text: 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 "AN IMPROVED PER-
FORATED FIRE-CLAY GAS BURNER ADAPTED FOR HEATING OR COOKING PURPOSES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said William Verity
and Benjamin Verity, our executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, 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

page_text: mentioned, and whether to be used for plain gas or air and gas com-
bined, or to be applied, adapted, or used for any heating purpose
whatsoever.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Verity, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of April, in the 5
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.
WILLIAM VERITY.
(L.S.)
For Self & Partner.
WILLIAM VERITY. (L.S.)
For Self & Partner.