CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON FURNACES FOR SMELTING DIFFERENT KINDS OF METAL ORES AND SLAGGS
Year: 1827

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
SOMERS, of Langford, in the Parish of Benington, in the County of Somerset,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of April, One thousand eight hundred
and twenty-seven, in the eighth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Benjamin Somers, His
especial licence that I, the said Benjamin Somers, my exors, adiñors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Benjamin Somers, my exors, adñiors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
ON FURNACES FOR SMELTING DIFFERENT KINDS OF METAL ORES AND SLAGGS;" in
which said Letters Patent. is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
Benjamin Somers, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Benjamin Somers, do hereby declare, the nature of my said Invention and
improvements, and the manner in which the same are to be performed,
are particularly described and ascertained in the following description thereof
(that is to say) :-
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That the furnace is formed of the slag of ore, with an iron pan at the
bottom, and two holes in the same, for tapping the metal. The space round
the furnace is filled up with the slag of ore beat very hard, and a circle is
formed, and the sides of the-pan are filled-up-level with slag in the same way,
beaten very hard. The pan itself is also filled up in a similar manner, and
formed into an inclined plane; from the right-hand corner to the top holes to
facilitate the running of the metal in that direction. A fire is then made of
coke in the centre of the furnace, and the slag is laid round it in a complete
circle, and as it burns away it is supplied with more slag, until, by incrustation,
it forms the furnace, which said furnace is worked by blast, and an aperture
is left in the back of the said furnace for the admission of the tube.
And it is the furnace formed of slag, made in the manner aforesaid, which
I claim to be secured for my exclusive benefit and advantage by my herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent...
In, witness, whereof, I, the said Benjamin Somers, have hereunto set
my, hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.
BENJAMIN, (L.5.) SOMERS..
AND: BE IT. REMEMBERED, that, on the Eighteenth day of October, in
the year of our Lord. 1827,..the aforesaid. Benjamin Somers, came before our
said. Lord the King in His Chancery,, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all; and every thing therein, contained and. specified, in. form
above written. Andialso the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose...