IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE-BARS, RETORTS, AND OTHER APPLIANCES CONNECTED
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Brown, of No. 2, Ribchester Terrace, Bridge
Road, Stratford, in the County of Essex, Machinist, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE-BARS, RETORTS, AND OTHER APPLIANCES CONNECTED
Sealed' the 23rd November 1860, and dated the 7th June 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Brown at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th June
1860.
I, JAMES BROWN, of No. 2, Ribchester Terrace, Bridge Road, Stratford, in
the County of Essex, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-.
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE-BARS, RETORTS, AND OTHER APPLIANCES CON-
NECTED, WITH FURNACES, &c.," to be as follows:-
That the firé-bars, retorts, &c., are made from a mixture of white clay, black
clay, corrosion, and burnt sand, in certain proportions, and afterwards, when
moulded to a requisite form, burnt in a furnace, or baked, by which means they
become hard and strong, and are not affected by heat.
I claim the privilege of using with the above ingredients any other kind of
clay or sand, that may be found necessary.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Brown in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
6th December 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
BROWN, of No. 2, Ribchester Terrace, Bridge Road, Stratford, in the County
of Essex, Machinist, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters.
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said James Brown, Her special licence that I, the said James Brown,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
James Brown, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN FIRE-BARS, RETORTS, AND OTHER APPLIANCES CONNECTED WITH
FURNACES, &c.," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James
Brown, 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 James Brown, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement—
That the fire-bars, retors, &c., are made from a mixture of white clay, black
clay, corrosion, and 'burnt sand, in certain proportions, and afterwards, when
moulded to a requisite form, burnt in a furnace or baked, by which means they
become hard and strong, and are not affected by heat.
I claim the privilege of using with the above ingredients any other kind of
clay or sand that may be.found necessary.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Brown, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.