IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR POURING IRON OR OTHER METAL INTO MOULDS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Jobson, of Wordsley, in the County of
Stafford, Ironfounder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR POURING IRON OR OTHER METAL INTO MOULDS."
Sealed the 27th January 1857, and dated the 19th August 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Jobson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th August 1856.
I, ROBERT JOBSON, of Wordsley, in the County of Stafford, Ironfounder,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR POURING IRON OR OTHER METAL INTO MOULDS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for pouring iron
or other metal into moulds. For this purpose the ladle is placed in a framing,
which may be a fixture, or be made suitable to move on wheels, or otherwise:
The sides of this framing partly embrace the front part of the ladle, and receive
the ends of a rod or axis which is passed through lugs or projections formed
near the upper part of the ladle. The ladle, when pouring, moves on this rod
or axis, which is near its upper part and below the lip, in place of moving
as heretofore on the necks or axes at its sides. The tilting of the ladle is
accomplished with facility by means of a lever or handle which is fixed on an
axis, near the lower part of the frame, and which passes below the laille. On

page_text: the axis are two arms which have links attached to their ends, and the upper
ends of such links are attached to or come under the necks or axes at the sides
of the ladie, hence, by moving the lever bandle, the ladle is tilted or turns on
an axis just below the pouring lip.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Jobson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th February 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
JOBSON, of Wordsley, in the County of Stafford, Ironfounder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Robert Jobson, Her special licence that I, the said Robert Jobson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert
Jobson, 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 APPARATUS FOR POURING
IRON OR OTHER METAL INTO MOULDS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Robert Jobson, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 imme-
diately after, the date of the said Letters Patent..
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NOW. KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Jobson, 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:-
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This Invention has for; its object improvements in apparatus for pouring
iron or other metal into moulds. For this purpose the ladle is placed in a
framing, which may be a fixture, or be made suitable to move on. wheels, or
otherwise. The sides of this framing partly embrace the front part of the ladle,
and receive the ends of a rod or axis which is passed through lugs or pro-

page_text: jections formed near the upper part of the ladle. The ladle, when pouring,
moves on this rod or axis, which is near its upper part and below the lip, in place
of moving, as heretofore, on the necks or axes. The tilting of the ladle is
accomplished with facility by means of a lever or handle which is fixed on an
axis near the lower part of the frame, and which passes below the ladle; on the
axis are two arms, which have links attached to their ends, and the upper ends
of such links are attached to or come under the necks or axes at the sides of
the ladle, hence, by moving the lever handle, the ladle is tilted or turns on an
axis just below the pouring lip.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a side elevation, Figure 2 is a plan thereof, and Figure 3
is a front clevation thereof. a is the ladle into which the melted iron is
received, and from which it is poured. This ladle or vessel is mounted on an
axis b, which is below it, and the ladle is capable of moving or being tilted on
the front axis c, which passes through the fixed frame d, and through the
lugs e, e, fixed near the lip or spout a' of the ladle, so that the front axis c is
under the lip of the ladle; fis an axis on which are fixed two arms g, g, to
which are attached two links or connecting rods h, h, the other ends of which
are attached to the axis. On the ends of the axis fare fixed two lever handles,
which, when the ladle is not to be tilted, are held down, as shewn in Figure 1,
by weights i, but when it is desired to tilt the ladle a, and to pour the melted
metal from the spout or lip, the lever handles are released from the weights,
and a workman or workmen causes the ladle to be tilted; the weight of the
vessel and its charge is counterbalanced by the chains and weights j,j. When
the ladles and their charges are not too heavy, only one lever handle need be
used on the axis f.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Jobson, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
HENRY M. WAINWRIGHT,
Solicitor, Dudley.
ROBERT JOBSON. (L.B.)