Specification of William Edward Gedge : smoke-consuming fire-place.

  • Gedge, William Edward.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Specification of William Edward Gedge : smoke-consuming fire-place. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gedge s Improved Smoke-consuming Fire-place. Wellington Street, Strand, in tlie County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of March, in the year 5 of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eiglit, in the thirty- first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special Jicence, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, adminis¬ trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said 'William Edward 10 Gedge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all tunes 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 15 for “An Improved Smoke-consuming Fire-place or Furnace,” a commu¬ nication to me from abroad by Ernest Henry, of Lisieux (Calvados), France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should 20 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 Letters Patent. 25 NOW ENOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement This smoke-consuming fire-place is based on the well-known principle 30 of passing the products of combustion of the black coal through the layer of red or live coal, The fire-place is fed in the ordinary manner, that is to say, black coal on red, but the direction of the draught is reversed, so that the smoke produced by the black coal drawn from the top towards the bottom may pass through the incandescent layer. This 35 reversal of the draught is obtained naturally by putting the lower part of the fire-place in communication with the chimney. The smoke-consuming fire-place or furnace of this Invention therefore consists essentially of a case intended to be filled with coal and