AN IMPROVED PROCESS FOR GENERATING HEAT, APPLICABLE TO THE HEATING OF BOILERS AND RETORTS, AND TO OTHER PURPOSES FOR WHICH HEAT IS REQUIRED
Year: 1833

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
OBADIAH NEWELL RUTTER, of Lymington, in the County of Southampton, Wine
Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth, by
His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirtieth day
of March, in the third year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the
said John Obadiah Newell Rutter, my exors, admors, and assigns, his especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Obadiah
Newell Rutter, my exors, adññors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself
and themselves, or by my and their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as I, my exors, adiñors, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend my Invention of "AN IMPROVED PROCESS FOR GENERATING HEAT, APPLICABLE
TO THE HEATING OF BOILERS AND RETORTS, AND TO OTHER PURPOSES FOR WHICH HEAT
IS REQUIRED" within that part of His Majesty's United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland called England, his Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said John Obadiah Newell
Rutter, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, or any of them, should, in my or their
discretions, seem meet, and that I, the said John Obadiah Newell Rutter, my
exors, admors, and assigns, should have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and
arising by reason of the said Invention for and during the term of fourteen

page_text: years thereby granted; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
to the effect that I, the, said John Obadiah Newell Rutter, should, within the
space of six calendar months from the date thereof, cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and of the manner in which the same is to
be performed, in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.
my
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso; I, the said John
Obadiah Newell Rutter, do hereby declare that Invention of an improved
process for generating heat, applicable to the heating of boilers and retorts,
and to other purposes for which heat is required, consists in the beneficial
employment of bituminous, oleaginous, resinous, waxy, or fatty substances in a
liquid state, and in conjunction with water, as fuel in manner herein-after
described. I carry my said improved process into effect in manner following, that
is to say, by allowing or, causing one or more bituminous, oleaginous, resinous,
waxy, or fatty substances, as coal tar, for instance, to flow from a cistern or other
vessel suitably placed through a pipe or other convenient channel into a spout
or funnel communicating with the interior, of an inclosed fire-place or furnace,
and at the same time allowing or causing water to flow from a cistern or vessel
placed in a suitable or convenient situation through another pipe or other con-
venient channel into the before-mentioned spout or funnel, in which sprout or
funnel the coal tar or other of the before-mentioned substances comes in contact
with the water, and from which spout or funnel they are allowed or caused to flow
or drop simultaneously upon a fire previously kindled, and burning within the
before-mentioned enclosed fire-place or furnace, subject to the regulations herein-
after mentioned or described. It is not essential that the coal tar or other of
the before-mentioned substances should first come into contact with the water
in the spout. which communicates with the interior of the enclosed fire-
place or furnace. Indeed I rather prefer that they should first come in.
contact with each other in a funnel at some little distance from the furnace;
and from thence be allowed to flow together through a convenient channel to
the spout by which they are admitted into the interior of the fire-place or
furnace; but the tar or other substance and the water should be in contact
prior to or at their entrance into the fire-place or furnace, and being so in
contact should fall simultaneously upon the fire so burning within the fire-
place or furnace, and if the fire-place or furnace be large two or more of the
spouts or channels for introducing the coal tar or other substance and water
together may be adapted to such fire-place or furnace'in such manner and at
sucli distances from each other as may be found most convenient. The

page_text: stream of coal tar, or other of the herein-before, mentioned substances, and of
water respectively, is or,may be regulated by means of stopcocks, or valves
either in or, attached to the cistern.or other vessel, or in any of the pipes or
channels before mentioned. The spout or other channel through which the
coal tar, or.. other of the before-mentioned.. substances, and the water are:
introduced into,the interior of the inclosed fire-place or furnace should be left,
open so that a supply, of, atmospheric air may thereby be admitted to the said
inclosed fire-place or furnace, care being taken that, too large a supply: of
atmospheric air be not admitted. Although I prefer the heating, inflaming,
and decomposing surface of a fire burning within an enclosed fire-place or
furnace, as aforesaid in carrying my said improved process into effect as most
favourable to: the complete and effectual combustion of the coal tar, or other
of the herein-before mentioned substances, in conjunction with water as afore-
said, yet the same is not absolutely essential to the, said process, for th
combustion of the coal tar, or other of the herein-before mentioned substances,
in conjunction with water as aforesaid, may be effected in a furnace, oven, or
other close vessel, previously heated, and afterwards kept at a proper degree
and
of heat, either by heat disengaged within the said furnace, oven, or close
vessel, or by heat being applied externally or in any other way that shall be
found most convenient. It is not essential that the water employed in my said
improved process should be fresh or pure water, but sea water and impure
water, such as the bilge water in ships, and the ammoniacal liquor in gas works,
will answer the purpose. The respective quantities and proportions of coal
tar, or other of the herein-before mentioned substances; and of water, proper to
be admitted or introduced into the inclosed fire-place or furnace, oven, or other
close. vessel will be found to vary according to circumstances and the materials
used. The proportions of coal tar and water which I have found productive
of a good result are, one gallon of coal tar to be used simultaneously with one
gallon and a half of water, and these quantities should be so regulated as not
to fall upon the fire or other heated surface, as before mentioned, in much less
than from two to three hours, but the proper proportions to be used may
be ascertained by observing the interior appearance of the said inclosed fire-
place or furnace, oven, or other close vessel, (which may be done at or through
one or more of the spouts or other convenient channels provided for the intro-
duction of the coal tar or other material and the water, or at or through one
or more convenient apertures made for the purpose,) for if water be in excess
the flame will be weakened or extinguished, or if tar or other of the herein-before
mentioned substances be in excess then the flame will be obscured by smoke.
The apparatus or machinery employed in the process herein-before described

page_text: does not constitute any part of my said Invention, but the same may be
of such form, dimensions, and materials as in practice may be found most
convenient. I therefore declare my Invention and discovery to consist in a
mode or process of generating heat by subjecting bituminous, oleaginous,
resinous, waxy, and fatty substances, or a mixture of two or more of such
substances in a liquid state, in conjunction with water, to ignition, combustion,
and decomposition in the manner above described, and which heat may be
advantageously used for the heating of boilers and retorts, and for every other
purpose for which furnace fires are or may be employed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Obadiah Newell Rutter, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the within-named John Obadiah
JOHN O. (L.S.) N. RUTTER.
Solicitors, Lymington.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of September, in
the year of our Lord 1833, the aforesaid John Obadiah Newell Rutter
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
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.