AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE SEPARATION OF SILEX AND SILICIOUS MATTER. FROM IRON
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Jepson Oddy Taylor, of Mark Lane,
in the City of London,. Naval Engineer, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN THE SEPARATION OF SILEX AND SILICIOUS MATTER. FROM
IRON."
Sealed the 17th February 1860, and dated the 22nd August 1859:
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Jepson Oddy
Taylor at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 22nd August 1859.
I, JOSEPH JEPSON ODDY TAYLOR, of Mark Lane, in the City of London,
Naval Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE SEPARATION OF SILEX AND SILICIOUS MATTER FROM
IRON," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the employment in the cupola or other furnace or
apparatus employed, whether for obtaining the iron from the ore or for
subsequently melting iron containing silicious matter of fluoric acid in any
form in which it may be present or be evolved.
The form in which I prefer to employ the fluoric acid is that of fluor spar
or fluate of lime, as the lime in the spar at the same time becomes a flux.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Jepson Oddy Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 22nd February 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
JEPSON ODDY TAYLOR, of Mark Lane, in the City of London, Naval Engineer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Joseph Jepson Oddy Taylor, Her special licence that I, the
said Joseph Jepson Oddy Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Joseph Jepson Oddy Taylor, my execu-
tors, 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 IMPROVEMENT IN THE
SEPARATION OF SILEX AND SILICIOUS MATTER FROM IRON," upon the condition.
(amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Jepson Oddy Taylor, 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 Joseph Jepson Oddy Taylor, 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 thereof, that is to say :-
"My Invention consists in the employment in the cupola or other furnace or
apparatus employed, whether for obtaining the iron from the ore or for
subsequently melting iron containing silicious matter of fluoric acid in any
form in which it may be present or be evolved.
The form in which I prefer to employ the fluoric acid is that of fluor spar
or fluate of lime, as the lime in the spar acts at the same time as a flux.
I think it well to observe that where cupolas or other furnaces or appa-
ratuses are lined with Stourbridge fire-bricks or other bricks, or any other.

page_text: materials which contain a large proportion of silicon, the effect of the flux is
to destroy such linings. To counteract this effect, I employ a mixture of two
kinds of clays, the bases of which are principally magnesia and oxide of iron,
with only a small amount of silicon in their component parts; this mixture,
being used as a facing to the present linings and applied from four to six
inches thick will resist the action of the flux.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my improve-
ment in the separation of silex and silicious matter from iron, the employment
in the cupola or other furnace or apparatus employed, whether for obtaining
the iron from the ore, or for subsequently melting iron containing silicious
matter of fluoric acid, in any form in which it may be present or be evolved.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Jepson Oddy Taylor, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twentieth day of February, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty.
J. J. O. TAYLOR, N.E. (L.s.)