An Improvement in Apparatus for Smelting Ores and Melting Metals.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Oct., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 18th Aug., 1900-Accepted, 22nd Sept., 1900
PROTIVNAL DI LULEICATION
An Improvement in Apparatus for Smelting Ores and Melting
Metals.
I, ALLEYNE REYNOLDS, of Riverdale, Sheffield, in the County of York,
Metallurgical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to apparatus for smelting ores and smelting metals by
heating them without any contact with fuel or furnace gases
For this purpose, I place on the bed of a furnace a number of vertical tubes
of refractory material which have openings through the roof provided with covers
At the base of each tube a channel is formed, or a notch is made in the lower
edge of the tube, not sufficiently large to allow solid material to pass along or
through it, but allowing flow of liquid The tubes being charged either with
ore along with suitable fluxes, reducing and other agents, if necessary, or being
charged with metal to be melted, the furnace is put in operation and the fused
matter but that alone issues from the tubes, flowing towards a suitable part of the
bed whence it may be tapped
Dated this 31st day of October 1899
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
An Improvement in Apparatus for Smelting Ores and Melting
Metals.
I, ALLEYNE REYNOLDS, of Riverdale, Sheffield, in the County of York,
Metallurgical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:
My invention relates to apparatus for smelting ores and melting metals by
heating them without any contact with fuel or furnace gases
For this purpose I arrange the furnace as shewn in the accompanying draw-
ings, Fig 1 being a transverse and Fig 2 a longitudinal section of a regenerative
furnace arranged according to my invention
On the furnace bed I place a number of vertical tubes a of refractory material
which have openings through the roof piovided with covers, or preferable have
covers c which are accessible by removing portions of the roof which consists of
separate arches 6 carried on girders as shewn At the base of each tube a sloping

page_text: channel d is formed, or a notch is made in the lower edge of the tube, not suffi-
ciently large to allow solid material to pass along or through it, but allowing
flow of liquid. The tubes being charged either with ore along with suitable
fluxes, reducing and other agents, if necessary, or being charged with metal
to be melted, the furnace is put in operation and the fused matter, but that alone,
18sues from the tubes a flowing towards a suitable part of the bed whence it may
be tapped this part being preferably formed as a sloping channel leading to a
tap hole and spout f.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
Apparatus for smelting ores or melting metals without contact of fuel or furnace
gases, this apparatus comprising a furnace having placed on its bed covered
vertical tube crucibles with lateral openings at their bottoms for outflow of molten
material into a channel formed in the furnace bed and leading to a tap hole, sub- 1
stantially as described
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