AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN PADDLING EURMAN WORDT MINOR Iron
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Hipkiss, of Dudley Port, in the County
of Stafford, Ironmaster, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN PADDLING EURMAN WORDT MINOR Iron"
Пост
aled the 1st August 1854, and dated the 27th May 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Hipkiss at tho
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th
May 1854.
I, JOSEPH HIPKISS, of Dudley Port, in the County of Stafford, Ironmaster,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OF
IMPROVEMENTS IN PUDDLING FURNACES USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON " to be
as follows:-
My Invention consists in obtaining and applying a material to the making
and repairing of the beds of puddling furnaces, which said material has hitherto
never been applied to that purpose. In carrying my Invention into effect, I
place a cast-iron or other vessel underneath the flue of the mill furnace, and
thereby arrest the cinder which flows from the iron while in the said furnace,
which said cinder has hitherto been allowed to escape as refuse. When the
mill furnace man has drawn his heat of iron from the said furnace, he taps or
draws off the cinder into a cast-iron box or other receptacle; when the said
cinder is cooled, it is fit for use. The essence of my Invention consists in
obtaining and applying the above-described material to the making and
repairing of the beds of puddling furnaces.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Hipkiss in the Great Seal Patent Offico on the
24th November 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
HIPKISS, of Dudley Port, in the County of Stafford, Ironmaster, send
greeting.
.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth
year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto mc,
the said Joseph Hipkiss, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph
Hipkiss, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Joseph Hipkiss, 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 "AN
IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN PUDDLING FURNACES USED IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF IRON," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Hipkiss,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Hipkiss, do hereby declare
the nature of tho 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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My Invention consists in obtaining and applying a material to the making
and repairing of the beds of puddling furnaces used in the manufacture of iron.
In carrying my Invention into effect, I place a cast-iron or other vessel under-
neath the flue of the mill or other furnace, and thereby arrest the cinder which
flows from the iron while in the said furnace, which said cinder. has hitherto
been allowed to escape as refuse. When the mill furnace man has drawn his
heat of iron from the said furnace, he taps or draws off the cinder into a cast-
iron or other receptacle; when the said cinder has cooled, it is fit for use. I
sometimes modify my Invention in the following manner, that is to say, I mix
the said cinder or other refuse cinder produced in the manufacture of iron with

page_text: pottery or any other iron ore, and by fusing the said cinder and ore together
produce a composition or material which may be used for making and repairing
the beds of puddling furnaces.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise method herein described, as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of my said Invention; but I claim as my
Invention, making and repairing the beds of puddling furnaces used. in the
manufacture of iron with the cinder produced in the manufacture of iron,
whether the said cinder be used alone or fused or mixed with pottery or other
iron ore, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the snid Joseph Hipkiss, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand cight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
JOSEPH HIPKISS. (L.S.)