AN IMPROVED METHOD OF OBTAINING THE METALLIC PARTICLES CONTAINED IN FUMES OR VAPOURS FROM LEAD AND OTHER SMELTING WORKS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Courage, of Bagillt, in the County of Flint,
Smelter, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF OBTAINING THE
METALLIC PARTICLES CONTAINED IN FUMES OR VAPOURS FROM LEAD AND OTHER
SMELTING WORKS."
Sealed the 13th October 1859, and dated the 16th April 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Courage at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 16th
April 1859.
I, ALFRED COURAGE, of Bagillt, in the County of Flint, Smelter, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF OBTAINING.
THE METALLIC PARTICLES CONTAINED IN FUMES OR VAPOURS FROM LEAD AND OTHER
SMELTING WORKS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the introduction of steam into the flue or flues
communicating with the various furnaces, which, mixing with the fumes,
causes the deposit therefrom of the metallic particles contained therein or
therewith. I prefer to use for the generation of the steam, boilers or tanks
placed in convenient positions in the flue or flues, and utilize the waste heat
therein to generate the steam.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Courage in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th October 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
COURAGE, of Bagillt, in the County of Flint, Smelter, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Alfred Courage, Her special licence that I, the said Alfred
Courage, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Alfred Courage, 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
IMPROVED METHOD OF OBTAINING THE METALLIC PARTICLES CONTAINED IN FUMES OR
VAPOURS FROM LEAD AND OTHER SMELTING WORKS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Alfred Courage, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Courage, 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 introduction of steam into the flue or flues
communicating with the various furnaces, which, mixing with the fumes,
causes the deposit therefrom of the metallic particles contained therein or
therewith. I prefer, to use for the generation of the steam, boilers or tanks
placed in convenient positions in the flue or flues, and utilize the waste heat
therein to generate the steam; but steam generated in a boiler placed in any
other convenient position may be introduced into the flues.
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,-

page_text: First, the introduction of steam into the flue or flues communicating with
lead and other smelting furnaces, for the purpose herein-before described.
And second, the employment of tanks or boilers placed in such flues in order
that the waste heat passing through the flues may be utilized to generate steam
therein, such steam to be applied for the purpose herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Courage, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine.
0 Witness,
FRANK COURAGE.
ALFRED (L.S.) COURAGE.