Specification of Samuel Bayliss : consuming or preventing smoke and heating liquids.

  • Bayliss, Samuel.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Specification of Samuel Bayliss : consuming or preventing smoke and heating liquids. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1/ >uaJ Aaxi JBayliss Impts. in Consuming or Preventing Smoke Q Pleating Liquids. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date tbe Sixteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the six¬ teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, 5 give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Bayliss, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Bayliss, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Bayliss, 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 10 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 Consuming- os Preventing Smoee and Heating Liquids,” upon the con¬ dition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Bayliss, by an instru- 15 ment in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and 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 Patent. 20 HOW EHOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Bayliss, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement: The objects sought to be attained by this Invention are, first, perfect 25 combustion of the gases arising from the heated fuel in steam-engine and other furnaces, for the purpose of preventing smoke and econo¬ mizing coal; secondly, to retain within such furnaces much of the heat which now passes away to the chimney without producing any useful effect; and, thirdly, to facilitate evaporation by causing a rapid circu- 30 lation in the liquids to be heated. My improvements are illustrated by the accompanying sheet of drawings, which are to a scale of one twelfth the real size; the same letters of reference indicating the same parts throughout. Touching the first part of these improvements, the principal gases 35 we have to deal with in a furnace are carburetted hydrogen, bi-carbu-