Specification of Sutton Thomas Wood : applying steam : applying and using condensed water : constructing boilers : heating the same.

  • Wood, Sutton Thomas.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Sutton Thomas Wood : applying steam : applying and using condensed water : constructing boilers : heating the same. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    :1 / Wood's Impts. in the Application of Steam, Construction of Boilers, $c. proviso, obliging me, the said Sutton Thomas Wood, by an instrument under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performe d to be inrolled in His Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within four calendar months after the date of the said Letters Patent, as by the said recited 5 Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Sutton Thomas Wood, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Inven¬ tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is herein-after 10 particularly described and ascertained, that is to say:— My first application of steam is the application of that steam which arises from the water, liquor, worts, or other solutions which are or may be heated or boiled in all or any of such coppers, pans, kettles, or boilers as are used and employed in breweries, distilleries, the various manufactures of sugar, soap, salt, 15 and allum, and all other trades and manufactures whatever, to these engines commonly called or known by the name of steam or fire engines, so that the same steam which arises either during the process of the trade or manufacture, or from water or liquor heated or boiled for the purposes of the same, may be rendered capable of working the steam engine; and this I do by covering over 20 the top of the copper, pan, or boiler with copper, iron, brass, or any other materials, and by means of pipes, tubes, funnels, or other hollow bodies, or by any other means, forming a communication with the steam engine; to which copper, pan, or boiler I apply safety valves and doors, either upon the same principle as those which are generally applied to the boilers of steam engines 25 or upon any other principle; but I have various ways of adapting and con¬ necting coppers or boilers used in trades and manufactures to the steam or fire engine, in order that the steam arising therefrom may be applied upon the above-mentioned principle, and rendered capable of working the same, many of which methods I have particularly specified and described in a Specification 30 duly inrolled agreeable to and by virtue of certain Letters Patent granted to me, the said Sutton Thomas Wood, by His present Majesty King George the Third, bearing date the Twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, “ for certain new Improvements on the Steam Engine,” and other things therein contained, as in and by the said 35 Specification (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear. But let it be here observed that it is not of any consequence in what shape, form, or method the coppers, pans, or boilers may be constructed or adapted, provided they are constructed or adapted upon the above-mentioned