AN IMPROVEMENT 03 IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE ANNEALING CANS USED IN ANHEALING SHEET IRON
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Matthew Tildesley, of Willenhall, in the County
of Stafford, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT
03 IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE ANNEALING CANS USED
IN ANHEALING SHEET IRON."
Sealed the 20th July 1809, and dated the 22nd January 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Matthew Tildesley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 22nd January 1869.
I, MATTHEW TILDESLEY, of Willenhall, in the County of Stafford,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE ANNEALING
CANS USED IN ANNEALING SHEET IROE," to bo as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in making annealing cans used for the above-
named purpose of cast iron of the description capable of being converted
into malleable iron, and then annealing the cans, by which process of

page_text: annealing the cans they are rendered much more durable, and are pre-
vented from cracking or flying when subsequently submitted to the
action of the fire for annealing purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Matthew Tildesley in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st July 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MATTHEW
TILDESLEY, of Willenhall, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Matthew Tildesley, Her special
license that I, the said Matthew Tildesley, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Matthew Tildesley, 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 "AN IMPROVE-
MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ANNEALING CANS USED IN
ANNEALING SHEET IRON, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Matthew Tildesley, by an instrument 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.
1
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Matthew Tildesley, 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, that is to say :-

page_text: This Invention consists in making annealing cans used for the above-
named purpose of cast iron of the description capable of being converted
into malleable iron, and then annealing the cans, by which process of
annealing the cans they are rendered much more durable, and are pre-
vented from cracking or flying when subsequently submitted to tho
action of the fire for annealing purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Matthew Tildesley have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.