Specification of Robert King and Kenneth Robson : consuming smoke.

  • King, Robert
Date:
1861
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Credit: Specification of Robert King and Kenneth Robson : consuming smoke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    King § Hobsons Method of Consuming Smoke. of the smoke at tlie bottom of the water, leaving the rarefied portion to pass upwards into the chimney or shaft perfectly free from soot or other impurity; by which means, when such smoke is emitted into the atmosphere, it assumes more the appearance of steam, or almost a colorless vapour. The same means may also be adopted for carrying off the unpleasant smells arising from soap- 5 boiling, chemical, or other works. When applied to locomotives it will be found that the velocity with which they travel will be sufficient to drive the smoke by means of an inverted funnel or other suitable contrivance through a pipe into a suitable water vessel without the necessity of a fan, pump, or other appliance. 10 SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Robert King and Kenneth Robson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th December 1861. * ' \7 ' * ~ f ; * ^4 • ‘St TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Robert 15 King, of Granville Street, Sheffield, in the County of York, Printer, and Kenneth Robson, of Granville Street, Sheffield, aforesaid, Printer, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord 20 One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said Robert King and Kenneth Robson, Her special licence that we, the said Robert King and Kenneth Robson, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Robert King and Kenneth Robson, 25 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 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 “ Consuming and Destroying Smoke 30 AS EMITTED FROM ENGINE AND OTHER CHIMNIES, AND FROM ALL OTHER FLUES FROM which Smoke is emitted,” upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Robert King and Kenneth Robson, 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 Invention, and 35 in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
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