Specification of James Fraser : boilers of steam engines.

  • Fraser, James.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of James Fraser : boilers of steam engines. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1827 .N° 5447. Boilers of Steam Engines. FRASER’S SPECIFICATION. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, James Fraser, of Hounsditch, in the City of London, Engineer, send greeting. WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Fourth, in and by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West- 5 minster, the Eleventh day of January last, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said James Fraser, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said James Fraser, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such 10 others as I, the said James Fraser, my executors, administrators, 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 lav - fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my * Invention of “ An Improved Method of 15 Constructing Boilers for Steam Engines ; in which said Letters Patent theie is contained a proviso obliging me, the said James Fraser, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to desciibe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per¬ formed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty s High Couit ot 20 Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately aftei the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, refeience being theie- unto had, will more fully appear.