A NEW MACHINE, CALLED AN ALEMBICAL LAMP OR LANTRAN
Year: 1782

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BESNARD'S SPECIFICATION...
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PHILIP
BESNARD, of Brewer Street, in the Parish of Saint James, Westminster,
the County of Middlesex, Chymist, 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 Twentieth day of July, in the twenty-second year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said Philip Besnard His especial licence; full power,.
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Philip Besnard, during the
term of years therein expressed; should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW MACHINE, CALLED AN ALEMBICAL LAMP OR
LANTRAN," in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging,
the, the said Philip Besnard, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, to particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months next immediately after the date of the said Letters, Patent, as in and
by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and
at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Philip Besnard, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention of a
New Machine called: an Alembical Lamp_or. Lantern, and the manner_in-
which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained in the manner
following, that is to say
The composition of the said machine consists of its alembical capital or

page_text: head, which receives all the constituent parts of the smoak of the lamp or
lantern when lighted for the purpose of bringing or conveying them back by a
tube, canal, or pipe of communication to the receptacle or fountain where the
oil is deposited, and which is at the same time the recipient of all the
extremely volatile and highly inflammable parts or particles of the oil which
fly off or arise from it when lighted, under the form or appearance of smoak.
This Invention then is composed of two distinct parts and principles, viz',
the lamp or lantern with its alembic capital or head, and the receptacle or
fountain where the light actually burns, and which is joined to the lamp or
lantern by means of the tube, canal, or pipe of communication. This tube,
canal, or pipe descends from the alembic capital or head of the lamp or
lantern in the interior or inner part of it, and conveys or brings into the afore-
said receptacle or fountain the constituent parts or particles of the smoak,
which serves as a new aliment or fond to the flame. This lamp or lantern
may be made of all sizes, and in all forms, and of all such materials as lamps
and lanterns are usually made of.
In witness whereof, I, the said Philip Besnard, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Tenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-two.
PHILIP BESNARD. (L.B.)
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stampt, in the presence of
JA MAINSTONE.
DAVID COSTINE.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Tenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord 1782, the aforesaid Philip Besnard came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen W.
and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth year of the reign
of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-two.