Specification of Ferdinand Jossa : furnaces and ovens.

  • Jossa, Ferdinand.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of Ferdinand Jossa : furnaces and ovens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Jossa s Impts. in Furnaces, $c.,for Preventing Smoke and for Economy of Fuel. distillation. The gases evolved therefrom are conveyed underneath the boiler and serve to heat it, and the coke will fall through apertures on to the lire bars, where it will be consumed without creating visible smoke. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Ferdinand Jossa in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5 28th September 1857. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Ferdinand Jossa, of Saint Helens Colliery, near Bishops Auckland, in the County of Durham, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters 10 Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Ferdinand Jossa, Her special licence that I, the said Ferdinand Jossa, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Ferdinand 1 5 Jossa, my 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 “ Improvements in Furnaces and 20 Ovens, for the Prevention of Smoke and for Economy of Fuel,” upon the con¬ dition, amongst others, that I, the said Ferdinand Jossa, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and 25 cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters t Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Ferdinand Jossa, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be 30 performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:— This Invention consists of a peculiar arrangement of furnaces, whereby the coal or other fuel is subjected to dry distillation before being consumed, and the gases evolved thereby are brought into economical use, without emitting 35 smoke. The principal features in my arrangement are the use of a metal