Specification of Richard Hornbuckle : domestic oven and stove.

  • Hornbuckle, Richard.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Richard Hornbuckle : domestic oven and stove. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1769 N° 944. Domestic Oven and Stove. HORNBUCKLE’S SPECIFICATION. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Richard IIornbuckle, of East Greenwich, in the County of Kent, Mealman, send greeting. WHEREAS I, the said Richard Hornbuckle, did, by my petition, humbly 5 represent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I had, after much study, labour, and expense, invented “ An Iron Oven that was Moveable at all Times, and which Baked Bread or Pyes or Tarts in the utmost Perfection, and the Bread was as good as or exceeded French Rolls, and which Oven might be sett in any Room without Danger of Fire, and the Expenses 10 of the Firing to be used in Baking would not exceed One Penny an Hour ; and also a Stove the exact same Form of the Oven, and which was Moveable INSTANTLY WHILE IN USE, AND WOULD HEAT OR AlR ROOMS AND OTHER PLACES, AND WOULD GIVE MORE HEAT WITH FOUR TIMES LESS FlRE THAN ANY OTHER THING AT ANY TIME THERETOFORE USED FOR SUCH PURPOSE, AND WAS SO SAFE FROM ANY DANGER OF 15 Suffocating that a Person may be shutt in the Room at the same time it is heated without the least Inconvenience that I was the true inventor of such oven and stove, and that the same or either of them had never been made by any other person or persons to the best of my knowledge and belief, and in regard I apprehended the said Invention would be of great use and benefit to 20 His Majesty’s subjects, I, the said Richard Hornbuckle, most humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant me, the said Richard Hornbuckle, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His Majesty’s Royal Letters Patent, for the sole making and vending my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty s Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town 25 of Berwick upon Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case made and provided, His said Majesty being willing to