Specification of Joseph Wass : construction of smelting furnaces.

  • Wass, Joseph.
Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Joseph Wass : construction of smelting furnaces. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1822 .N° 4682. Construction of Smelting Furnaces, WASS’S SPECIFICATION. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Joseph Wass, of Lea Wharf, in the Parish of Ashover, in the County of Derby, Millwright and Lead Smelter, send greeting. WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by 5 His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, in the third year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Wass, my exors, ad mors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and 10 authority, that I, the said Joseph Wass, my exors, admors, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention of “ An Improvement which Prevents the III Effects to Vegetation and Animal Life that has hitherto been occasioned by the Noxious 15 Fumes and Particles that arise from Smelting or Calcining Lead Ore and other Pernicious Minerals in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said Joseph Wass, shall not particularly describe andas certain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per¬ formed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the 20 same to be inrolled in His Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the same*, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.