AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROCESS USED FOR REDUCING IRON ORE, AND OTHER MATERIALS CONTAINING IRON, TO WHAT IS CALLED IN THE IRON TRADE, FINERS METAL
Year: 1833

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSIAH
JOHN GUEST, of Dowlais Iron Works, Merthyr Tydvil, in the County of
Glamorgan, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirty-first day of January, in the third year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Josiah John Guest, His especial licence, that I, the said Josiah John
Guest, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Josiah
John Guest, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROCESS USED FOR REDUCING IRON ORE, AND
OTHER MATERIALS CONTAINING IRON, TO WHAT IS CALLED IN THE IRON TRADE,
FINERS METAL;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Josiah John Guest, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be
enrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large annear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Josiah John Guest, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to
consist in causing melted iron, which has been produced in the ordinary
manner from ore or other materials containing iron (by which other materials
I mean the cinders, slags, or other the like refuse, produced from the various
processes now adopted for making malleable iron from crude iron) in a blast
furnace, to flow, or be otherwise conveyed from the blast furnace in a melted
state into what is called the refinery, there to be made into what is called
finers' metal, instead of first casting the melted iron from the blast furnace
into pigs of iron, allowing it to cool or harden, and then putting the said pig
iron into the refinery to be melted over again. And in further compliance
with the said proviso, I, the said Josiah John Guest, do hereby describe the
manner in which my said Invention is to be performed, by the following
statement thereof; that is to say :-
I place my refinery, or fire for converting crude iron into finers' metal, as
near to the blast furnace as I conveniently can, and at a level below that of
the tap hole of the blast furnace. I then place an iron shoot or channel from
the said tap hole to the said refinery in such manner that, on tapping
the blast furnace, the fluid metal will flow thence into the refinery in whatever
quantity may be required, there to be acted upon by a blast in the usual
manner, to produce what is called "finers' metal." And whereas I claim as
niy Invention the reducing of iron ore, or other materials containing iron, to
finers' metal, by causing the melted iron obtained in the blast furnace to flow
or be otherwise conveyed from the same in a liquid state directly into the
refinery, instead of being first cast into pig iron, and suffered to cool, by which
improvement in the said processes a great saving of time and labor is effected,
and much waste avoided. And such my Invention being, to the best of my
knowledge and belief, entirely new, and never before used within that part of
His Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
His said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby
declare this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe
that this my said Specification doth comply in all respects, fully and without
reserve or disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent contained. Wherefore I do hereby claim to maintain exclusive
right and privilege to my said 'Invention.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-
second day of May, in the year of our Lord One 'thousand eight
hundred and thirty-three.
J. J. GUEST. (L.B.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of May, in
the year of our Lord 1833, the aforesaid Josiah John Guest came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.