Specification of Thomas Holmes and Thomas Aspinall : diminishing the production and effecting the combustion of smoke.

  • Holmes, Thomas.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of Thomas Holmes and Thomas Aspinall : diminishing the production and effecting the combustion of smoke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1850.—N° 2243. Specification. Holmes <§ Aspinall's Improvements for Preventing the Production of Smoke, d>c. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Thomas Holmes and Thomas Aspinall in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th March 1857. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Thomas Holmes, of Pendleton, in the County of Lancaster, Bleacher, and Thomas 5 Aspinall, of Pendleton aforesaid, Watchman, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Iler reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Holmes and Thomas Aspinall, Her special licence that we, the said Thomas Holmes and Thomas Aspinall, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas Holmes and Thomas Aspinall, © ~ # _ our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term 15 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 for “ Improvements for Preventing or Diminishing the Production op Smoke in Fire-places and Furnaces, and for Effecting its Combustion,” upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the 20 said Thomas Holmes and Thomas Aspinall, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven¬ tion, 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 25 and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Holmes and Thomas Aspinall, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say:— SO Our Invention consists in the application of lime, or of substances containing lime, either alone or with the addition of soda ash or other alkaline substance, to the fuel employed in fire-places or furnaces, whereby the smoke from such fire-places or furnaces is more or less prevented or consumed. Now, although we do not confine ourselves to the use of any of the above- 35 named substances, nor of any mixture of two or more of them, yet we prefer to use either quicklime alone or a mixture of quicklime with one-twentieth