IMPROVEMENTS IN AND APPLICATION OF THE USE OF HYDRO-CARBONACIOUS FLUIDS IN COMBINATION WITH HIGHLY ATTENUATED OR SUPERHEATED STEAM FOR THE PURPOSES OF SMELTING, MELTING, REHEATING, AND WORKING OF METALS, GLASS PORCELAIN, OR CALCARIOUS MATERIALS
Year: 1868

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Paul Rapsey Hodge at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th June.
1868:
I, PAUL RAPSEY HODGE, Civil Engineer, of No. 10, Adam Street,
Adelphi, in the Parish of St. Martin's in the Fields, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN AND APPLICATION OF THE USE OF HYDRO-CARBONACIOUS FLUIDS
IN COMBINATION WITH HIGHLY ATTENUATED OR SUPERHEATED STEAM FOR THE
PURPOSES OF SMELTING, MELTING, REHEATING, AND WORKING OF METALS, GLASS,
PORCELAIN, OR CALCARIOUS MATERIALS," to be-as follows:-
These improvements relate,-
Firstly. To the application and use of hydrocarbons, such as gas tar,
petroleum, or parafin, or any of their combinations, or products arising
from them in their manufacture, to be used separately or in combination,
and rendered fluid by heat or otherwise, and used in combination with
attenuated or superheated steam through and by means of compound
jets, annular or any other shape, wherein the steam and hydrocarbons are

page_text: brought together at the same time in their proper equivalents to produce
proper combustion. If for smelting or melting purposes for any of the
metals I insert a compound jet (as above described) in combination
with or in close proximity to the tuyre" holes or blast, or separate
apertures may be made especially for these jets, so that the flame and
heat arising from the combination and combustion of these two elements
may unite and comingle with the other combustibles of the furnace
or cupola and reduce the "charge."
Secondly. In the use of these compound jets in the smelting, melting,
refining, or annealing of iron, brass, copper, lead, tin, silver, gold, or
any other metal either in the cupola, reverberatory, or annealing
furnace, or in furnaces wherein the metals are reduced or melted in
pots.
Thirdly. In using the above described compound jets of hydrocarbon
and steam in the heating and reheating of metals for forging, weld-
ing, or brazing, as in the manufacture of iron or brass tubes, and by
distributing these jets at such distances as will emit their flame to
produce a uniform heat throughout the whole length of the furnace,
such jets to be used either in combination with or without any other
fuel.
Fourthly. In the application and use of the compound jets, as herein
described for the calcination of metaliferous ores.
Fifthly. In the application and use of these compound jets in the
melting or annealing of glass, or any of the vitrious compounds used
in the arts, by bringing the flame from these compound jets into contact
with the glass melting pots to accelerate the, heat, in combination
with the ordinary fuel, or may be separately used without any other
fuel but that which is the result. of combustion of these elements used
through such compound jets.
Sixthly. In the application and use of these, compound jets in the
vitrification of all potters' ware, such as china, porcelain, delf, and all
wares made of potters' "clay," or wares made. of clay, and graphite;
or in furnaces used for the reburning of wares, either, for glazing or
colouring. Such compound jets to be used, separately or in combination
for the purposes set forth.

page_text: Seventhly. In the application and use of these compound jets in the
calcination of calcarious matters, such as lime and cement, either
separately or in combination with other fuel.