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Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hubert Joseph Warlomont, Manager of the Vieille
Montagne Zinc Works, at Liege, in the Kingdom of Belgium, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANU-
Sealed the 16th March 1860, and dated the 19th September 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hubert Joseph Warlomont
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 19th September 1859.
I, HUBERT JOSEPH WARLOMONT, Manager of the Vieille Montagne Zinc
Works at Liege, in the Kingdom of Belgium, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ZINC," to be as follows (that is to say) :-
My Invention for improvements in the manufacture of zinc has reference to
the ovens or furnaces for containing the zinc under operation, by which
greater economy than hitherto is effected in the working of the process, and
consists in constructing the ovens or furnaces in sets of six, arranged trans-
versely in pairs, in such manner as to admit of the two centre ovens or
furnaces being heated by the flames from the four outer ones, through the
medium of flues or channels for conducting the heat direct from the outer
chambers to the inner ones aforesaid, and thence to the shaft or flue.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Hubert Joseph Warlomont in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 17th March 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HUBERT
JOSEPH WARLOMONT, Manager of the Vieille Montagne Zinc Works, at Liege,
in the Kingdom of Belgium, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Hubert Joseph Warlomont, Her special licence that I, the said
Hubert Joseph Warloment, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Hubert Joseph Warlomont, my executors, admi-
nistrators, 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 APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ZINC," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Hubert Joseph Warlomont, 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 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Hubert Joseph Warlomont, 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, and the Drawings therein referred to (that is to say) :-
My Invention for improvements in apparatus to be employed in the manu-
facture of zinc has reference to the arrangement of ovens or furnaces for
containing the zinc under operation, by which greater economy than hitherto
is effected in the consumption of fuel, the breakage of crucibles, and in the
labour necessary for the working of the process, and consists in constructing
the ovens or furnaces in sets of six, arranged transversely in pairs in such
manner as to admit of the two centre ovens being heated by the flames from
the four outer ones, through the medium of flues or channels for conducting

page_text: the heat direct from the outer furnaces or chambers to the inner ones afore-
said, and thence to the shaft or flue.
But in order that my Invention may be more fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I now proceed to describe it by the aid of the
accompanying Drawings, reference being bad to the letters and figures thereon
marked (that is to say):-
Fig. 1 represents a front elevation of my improved apparatus; Fig. 2 a
sectional plan view thereof; Fig. 3 a longitudinal vertical section, taken
through the dotted line a, a; Fig. 4 a transverse vertical section through the
line b, b; Fig. 5 a corresponding section through the line c, c; and Figs. 6, 7,
and 8, enlarged detailed views of the hot air shaft or chimney, showing a plan
and corresponding sectional elevations, through the dotted lines d, d, and e, e.
In each Figure the saine letters of reference denote similar corresponding
parts.
A, A, walls or body of the apparatus; B, B, furnace ovens; C, C, auxilliary
or supplementary ovens communicating with and receiving the flame and heat
direct from the same through the medium of the leading flues or passages D, D;
E, E, openings for regulating the draught, as also for cleansing the flues;
F, F, furnace bars; G, G, ash-pits; H, H, doors or openings for supplying
the furnaces with fuel; I, I, passages or channels for conducting the smoke,
flame, or otherwise, from the auxilliary ovens to the flues J, J, and thence to
the main shaft or chimney K, K; L, L, bridge for receiving or containing a
bed of coke in an incandescent state when required for assisting the com-
bustion in the auxilliary chambers; M, M, inner shaft, from which hot air is
supplied to the main shaft for the purpose of more effectually consuming the
smoke; N, N, stoke-holes or galleries for working the grates; 0, 0, wall or
partition dividing the ovens into sets of three; P and P¹ outer and inner
ridges or shelves, upon which the ends of the crucibles Q, Q, are caused to
rest; R, R, wells or receptacles for receiving the residue from the crucibles;
S, S, metallic top or crown piece for diffusing the hot air through the main
shaft or chimney; T, T, seat or bearing, secured to the shaft, upon which the
same is mounted.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of this my said Invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I would have it clearly
understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein-before
described, as the same may be varied by the employment of one auxilliary
oven and two outer furnace ovens, or by admitting the concentrated heat of
the four external furnaces into one auxilliary or supplementary oven, when

page_text: found desirable, or the details may be otherwise varied without departing from
the general principle of this my said Invention, but that which I do claim as
new and of my said Invention is, the general construction and employment of
the auxilliary or supplementary ovens in connection with the mode of supplying
heat to the same through the medium of the furnace ovens and flues, in the
manner and for the purposes herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hubert Joseph Warlomont, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
HUBERT JOSEPH WARLOMONT. (L.S.)
Witness,
F. ET. LEDENT,
Professeur au Conservatoire Royal de Musique,
de Liége.