Specification of William Brunton : steam engines and furnaces.

  • Brunton, William.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of William Brunton : steam engines and furnaces. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1819.N° 4387. Steam Engines and Furnaces. BRUNTON’S SPECIFICATION. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, William Brunton, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Engineer, send greeting. WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by 5 His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth day of June, in the fifty-ninth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said William Brunton, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William Brunton, my 10 exors, admors, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention of “ Certain Improvements in Steam Engines and Furnaces of Steam Engines, by which a Saving in the Consumption of Fuel is effected, and the Combustion of the 15 Smoke is more compleatly attained in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said William Brunton, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty’s High Court of 20 Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and be¬ come void, as in and by the same, relation being, thereunto had, will moro fully and at large appear.