Specification of Henry Seymour Conway : applying heat of coke ovens to generation of steam, baking bread, &c.

  • Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Henry Seymour Conway : applying heat of coke ovens to generation of steam, baking bread, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Applying Heat of Coke Ovens to Generation of Steam, Baking Bread, &c. • CONWAY’S SPECIFICATION. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Henry Seymour Conway, send greeting. WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West- 5 minster, the Twenty-third day of June, in the twenty-ninth year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Henry Seymour Conway, His especial licence that I, the said Henry Seymour Conway, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention 10 of “An entire New Method op Adapting or Conveying the Heat arising prom the Fire op Coal employed in Coke Ovens (by a particular Construction of such Ovens and Flues adjoining thereto or connected therewith) for the 'Working of Steam Engines, Baking of Bread, Meat, or other Food, Calcining and Fusing of Ores and Metals, Making of Brass or Steel, as also for the Purpose of 15 Warming of Rooms, Staircases, or Large Buildings, Heating Water for Baths, AND WHICH IS APPLICABLE TO MANY OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES, AND MANUFACTORIES 1 REQUIRING THE ASSISTANCE OF FlRE OR HEAT, BY WHICH MEANS THE EXPENCE OF THE Coal or other Fuel which hath hitherto been necessary for the above Opera¬ tions is entirely or in the greatest part Saved in which said Letters Patent 20 there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Henry Seymour Conway, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the date of