IMPROVEMENTS IN PUDDLING, BALLING, AND RE-HEATING FURNACES
Year: 1862

page_text: - LETTERS PATENT to William Davies, of Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, South
Wales, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PUDDLING, BALLING, AND
RE-HEATING FURNACES."
Sealed the 18th July 1862, and dated the 9th April 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Davies at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th
April 1862.
I, WILLIAM DAVIES, of Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, South Wales, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PUDDLING, BALLING,
AND RE-HEATING FURNACES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in puddling, balling, and
re-heating furnaces. For these. purposes, in place of employing a horizontal
grating of fire-bars; the bars of which are laid in a direction from front to
back of the fire-place, which are those most generally employed in the above
descriptions of furnaces, inclined gratings of fire-bars are used according to this,
Invention; one half of the grating of a furnace inclining from one side to the
middle, and the other half inclining from the other side, so that the lowest
point is in or about the middle of the fire-place, and the fire-bars are as
heretofore laid in a direction from front to back of the fire-place.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Davies in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th October 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
DAVIES, of Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, South Wales, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Davies, Her special licence that I, the said William
Davies, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Davies, 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
PUDDLING, BALLING, AND RE-HEATING FURNACES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Davies, 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 William Davies, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in puddling, balling, and
re-heating furnaces. For these purposes, in place of employing a horizontal
grating of fire-bars, the bars of which are laid in a direction from front to back of
the fire-place, which are those most generally employed in the above descriptions
of furnaces, inclined gratings of fire-bars are used according to this Invention;
one half of the grating of a furnace inclining from one side to the middle, and
the other half inclining from the other side, so that the lowest point is in or
about the middle of the fire-place, and the fire-bars are as heretofore laid in a
direction from front to back of the fire-place.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a furnace having the fire-place with the
grating of fire-bars arranged according to my Invention, Figure 2 is a plan
thereof in section, and Figure 3 is a transverse section thereof.
In carrying out my Invention, puddling and reheating furnaces are to be
of the ordinary forms excepting the fire-places, which are to be constructed
with gratings of fire-bars arranged in each case to incline from each side of the
fire-place towards the middle, so that the lowest part of the grating of fire-
bars will be about the middle. The fire-bars a, a, run in a direction from
front to back, but the frames or bearers b, b, of the fire-bars are arranged to
incline from each side towards the middle, as is shewn in the Drawings, more
particularly in Figures 1 and 3.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is the
constructing of the fire-places of puddling, balling, and re-heating furnaces
with gratings of fire-bars inclining from each side to the middle, as herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Davies, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
WILLIAM DAVIES. (L.s.)