Specification of James Fraser : flues, cooking apparatus, &c.

  • Fraser, James.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Specification of James Fraser : flues, cooking apparatus, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5 10 15 20 A.D. 1829 .N° 5762. Flues, Cooking Apparatus, &c. FRASER’S SPECIFICATION. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, James Fraser, of Limehouse, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, send greeting. WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West¬ minster, the Twenty-seventh day of January, in the ninth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said James Fraser, His especial licence that I, the said James Fraser, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Fraser, my exe¬ cutors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of “ A New and Improved Arrangement op a Flue or Flues to communicate with the various Parts op Culinary Apparatus, such as Steam, Soup, or Water Boilers, Oven or Ovens, Hot Plate op* Plates, Hot Closet or Closets, and Stewing Stove or Stoves, to render them more compact, and to appropriate Part of the said Apparatus to effect other useful Purposes ; ” in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said James Fraser, by an instru¬ ment in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe 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 Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being there¬ unto had, will more fully and at large appear.