CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURING OF IRON
Year: 1822

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
JONES, of the Parish of Bedwellty, in the County of Monmouth, Engineer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of
October, in the third year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
William Jones, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial license, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William Jones, my exors, admors,
and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of fourteen years
therein mentioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention in "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURING OF IRON;" in which said Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso that if I, the said William Jones, shall not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within two calender months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease,
determine, and become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Jones, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in the following description thereof (that is to say):-
My said Invention consists of an improvement in the manufacturing of iron
in that process of it called puddling, by reheating refined metal, pig, or other
crude iron in a stove or furnace either attached to or detached from the
puddling furnace in which the same is intended to be worked; but I prefer
the stove or furnace being attached to the puddling furnace, and heated with
the same fire as the one by which the puddling furnace is worked; and when
so reheated, then by charging the puddling furnace with the hot refined metal,
pig, or other crude iron, or by charging the puddling furnace with refined
metal, pig, or other crude iron in a heated state, whereby a charge of iron in the
puddling furnace is worked and brought into balls fit for rolling or hammering
in much less time than by the usual mode of charging the puddling furnace
with cold refined metal, pig, or other crude iron, and a considerable saving is
produced in the consumption of coal in the operation of puddling.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Jones, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Ninth day of December, in the third year of the
reign of His said most Excellent Majesty George the Fourth, by the
grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and twenty-two.