IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAST STEEL.
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Bennett Howell, of Sheffield, in the County
of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
CAST STEEL.
Sealed the 31st March 1857, and dated the 9th October 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Bennett Howell
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 9th October 1856.
I, JOSEPH BENNETT HOWELL, of Sheffield, in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CAST STEEL," to be as follows:-
The novelty of my Invention consists in using what is commonly known as
the scale which falls off steel or iron during the process of hammering and
rolling, in addition to the ingredients in common use for making cast steel.
I do not confine myself to use any given quantity of the said scale, but am
guided by the particular temper of steel required for any special purpose. The
object of this Invention is to make a superior quality of cast steel from the
commoner kinds of iron.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Bennett Howell in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th April 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
BENNETT HOWELL, of Sheffield, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in, the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Bennett Howell, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph Bennett
Howell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Joseph Bennett Howell, 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF CAST STEEL," upon the condition, amongst
others, that I, the said Joseph Bennett Howell, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Bennett Howell, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The novelty.of my Invention consists in using what is commonly known
as the scale which falls off steel or iron during the, process of hammer:
ing or rolling, in addition to the ingredients in common use for making
cast steel. I do not confine myself to the use of any given quantity of the
said scale, as that must be determined by the particular, temper of steel
required for any special purpose. The object of this Invention is to make
a superior quality of cast steel or a homogeneous metal from the commoner
kinds of iron.
Having now described-the nature of my-said. Invention, and its use, what I

page_text: claim as my Invention is the application of the within-named scale to the
manufacture of cast steel.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Bennett Howell, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of April, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
JOSEPH BENNETT HOWELL. (L.S.)
JOHN AVERY, Patent Agent,
32, Essex Street, Strand,
London.