Specification of John Payne : machinery for obtaining motive power by ventilation of hot-houses, &c.; furnaces, coppers, boilers, &c.; manufacture of salt and iron.

  • Parsons, John.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of John Payne : machinery for obtaining motive power by ventilation of hot-houses, &c.; furnaces, coppers, boilers, &c.; manufacture of salt and iron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Paynes New Engine, <§c. and Method of Applying the Heat of Fire, <§c. or Distilling, and likewise in Refining of Salt from Salt Rock, or making the SAME FROM BRINE OR SEA WATER, BY A NEW METHOD OF MAKING AND PLACING THE Pans, (which may be of Metall or Wood,) soe that the same Quantity of Salt may BE MADE MUCH CHEAPER THAN CAN BE DONE BY THE COMON METHODS ; AND FURTHER the Fire of Furnaces may be applyed to Vitrifying the Scoria or Dross of 5 DIVERS MeTTALLS AND ORES, SO AS TO SHAPE OR MOULD THE SAME LIKE BRICKS OR Tiles, or into other Forms, fit for Conveniences and Ornaments in Building;” that the said John Payne had likewise discovered “A Method by which Pig or Sow Iron being put into Fusion with divers Ingredients will be brought into a state of Malleability, and so drawn into Barrs by the Comon Vse of the Forge 10 Hammer;” that as the said Inventions are intirely new, and will be of great benefitt and advantage to the publick, the said John Payne did most humbly pray that in consideration of the labour and expence he had been at in making the said discoveries, His Maiesty would be graciously pleased to grant him His Royall Letters Patent for the sole vse and benefitt of his said Inventions, 15 within England, Wales, and Town of Bar wick vpon Tweed for fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case made and provided : His said Maiesty, of His especiall grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, did, for Himselfe, His heires, and successors, give and grant vnto the said John Payne, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall licence, full power, sole 20 priviledge, and authority, that he, the said John Payne, his executors, adminis¬ trators, & assignes, and every of them, by himselfe and themselves, or by his and their deputy & deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said John Payne, his executors, administrators, or assignes, should att any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and att all times here- 25 after, during the terme of years in the said Letters Patent expressed, shall and lawfully may make, exercise? work, use, and enioy, within that part of Great Brittaine called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Bar- wick vpon Tweed, his said severall and respective Inventions therein sett forth and described, in such manner as to him, the said John Payne, his 30 executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of them, should in their discretions seem meet, and that he, the said John Payne, his executors, administrators, and assigns, shall and lawfully may have and enioy the whole proffitt, benefitt, comodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and arising by reason of the said Inventions for and during the term of years 35 therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said licence, powers, priviledges, & advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted to the said John Payne, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of