IMPROVEMENTS IN FORGING IRON
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, of the
English and Foreign Patent Office, 4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand le Comte
de Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 27th September 1855.
I, PETER ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of the English and
Foreign Patent Office, 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de
l'Echiquier, Paris, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FORGING IRON " to be as follows, that is to say:-
The Invention communicated to me consists in performing the forging
operation in the interior of the furnace, employing for heavy articles a steam
hammer, which strikes in the interior of the furnace, and for small articles a
lever, hammer, or other suitable mechanism.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 26th March 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of the English and Foreign Patent
Office, 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Morean, Her special license,
that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter Armand le
Comte de Fontaine Moreau, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN FORGING IRON," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, 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 Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing hereto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:
This Invention consists in hammering and welding iron in the interior of
the furnace, to prevent the cooling effect which takes place in the ordinary
mode.
Figure 1 is an elevation of the apparatus, part being in section; Figure 2,
a plan of the same. The furnace may be of granite or other material capablo

page_text: of resisting the effect of the blows of the vertical hammer D. The anvil A is
independent of the furnace, and is fixed to a wooden block G, as in the ordinary
method. The anvil may be changed during the heating by allowing the pieces
of iron C to rest on the trestles B, which are made to move in the direction of
the width of the iron, and raising it afterwards by means of a pulley. E is the
upper part of the vertical hammer, similar to that of the ordinary hammers;
F, frame for supporting the hammer; H, chimney composed of sheet iron.
The hammer may be worked by steam or other motive power.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I claim as
the Invention communicated to me is, the method of welding and hammering
iron in the interior of the furnace, as before described, and shewn in the
accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second
day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-six.
L' DE FONTAINE MOREAU. (L.S.)