Philada. 18 April 1788
		Having spent much Time and thought, as well as having tried many
		Experiments on Steam Engines I take the Liberty of laying before
		you some of my Ideas on the best Mode of creating Steam, and am
		Gentlemen Your humble Servant
	
 
	
	
|  | A | A hollow Globe with a worm surrounding it—one End whereof | 
	passes in at the Bottom of the Globe—the other End of the Worm
	is connected with a forcing Pump to supply it with Water—on
	the Top of the Globe is a Pipe to convey the Steam to the
	Cylinder (or place of Application) having also a regulating
	valve—The whole Globe and Worm to be placed in a Stove formed
	circular so as to leave a sufficient Room all round it for
	Coal and a Grate at Bottom for the air—The Globe is intended
	as a Receiver for the Steam that it may be rarified to a
	greater Degree—This Mode of creating Steam was conceived by me
	last Summer was a twelve month &a Drawing shewn to several
	Persons.
	
|  | B | Is a Section of a Boiler of a different Construction improved | 
	on the former plan. It consists of an inside circular Box as
	represented at C (steam tight) made of strong sheet Iron
	having at its bottom, 
on the outside, two Tier of spiral Pipe
	as shewn at D & E, and again in their places at F in the
	Section of the whole Boiler B. The inside of the Steam Box as
	represented in this Section B has 3 Shelves, or circular
	Sheets of Iron perforated as at I through all which (as well
	thro’ the Bottom of the Steam Box) one End of the uppermost
	Tier of the spiral pipe passes and admits the Steam to spread
	in the vacancy K when if any Water should be forced up through
	this Pipe, it will, on falling thro’ the several Cullender
	Shelves to the Bottom of the Steam Box, become perfectly
	rarified and created into Steam. L is a Passage for the Steam
	to the Receiver M which is a Copper Globe, on the Top of which
	is a Tube communicating with the Cylinder (or place of
	application) at the Bottom of this Globe is a bent Pipe with a
	Safety valve thro’ which the Water may escape if any should
	fall into the Globe. N is a forcing Pump to inject a Supply of
	warm Water from the Condensers, which are also spiral Pipes,
	and immerged in cold Water and have been very successfully
	used in Mr. Fitch’s Steam Boat. O is the outside Case—Fire
	Place and Chimney Pipe—of Bricks or Sheet Iron. P is thd Ash
	hole. Q is the Iron Legs (if the Case is made of Iron)
	
|  | Fig 3  Is a Boiler of another Form. 4 is an inverted vessel like a | 
	Tumbler bottom up—over which is another inverted vessel, so
	much wider as to leave about 1½ Inch Vacancy all round,
	but this vessel is much deeper than the inside vessel—the two
	bottom Edges of these vessels are flanched together, so that
	Water may be contained between them and cover the Top of the
	inner vessel entirely as shewn by the dotted Lines—they are
	placed over a Fire Place 5 having Fire Place 5 having a Flew
	all round and terminating at 6 for the Passage of the Fire and
	Smoke—the Inside of the innermost vessel will be heated by the
	Fire like an oven which will reverberate and pass under the
	flanched Edges and rise up the Fleu 7. on the outside of the
	second vessel the whole being enclosed at a proper Distance
	all round with brick Work or Sheet Iron as may best suit the
	purpose and place of fixing the Boiler, so that a thin
	circular sheet of Water will be between the outside and inside
	Fire—as seen by the dotted Line. A Forcing Pump is to be
	applied to supply Water as in the other Boiler which may
	either pass through a Worm as described in the inside of the
	inner vessel, or may be a single Pipe conducting to the 
Top
	between the two vessels which Top if made large enough will
	serve for a Receiver without a separate Receiver as in Figure
	B at M — and is the Pipe communicating with the Cylinder and
	the safety valve.