IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BOTTOM PLATES AND BEARERS FOR PUDDLING AND BALLING FURNACES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to. William Scott, of Bilston, in the County of
Stafford, Furnace Builder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE BOTTOM PLATES AND BEARERS FOR PUDDLING AND BALLING FURNACES."
Sealed the 22nd October 1872, and dated the 24th April 1872.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Scott at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th April 1872.
I, WILLIAM SCOTT, of Bilston, in the County of Stafford, Furnace
Builder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE BOTTOM PLATES AND BEARERS FOR PUDDLING AND BALLING
FURNACES," to be as follows:-
I fix at the back of the furnace and in the interior a plate running
the length of the said furnace and rebated on the inside to receive other
plates, having also a raised flange on its outside to receive the air
plates.

page_text: I fix at the front of the furnace another plate running the length of
the furnace, and rebated on its inside in a similar manner to the plate
before described, and having a raised flange on its outside at each of
the jambs to receive the air plate. I use three plates to form the
bottom of the furnace between the two longitudinal plates already
described, and I construct the said plates to lie crosswise in the furnace
and to fit in and be carried by the rebates in the longitudinal plates.
The centre plate I make of such dimensions that it may be passed
through the opening left in the breast of the furnace when the fore
plate is removed. The longitudinal plates are carried on four bearors
which are hollowed to receive the bottom of the rebates before men-
tioned, thus preventing the longitudinal plates from moving outwards.
The two outside cross plates which are carried in the rebates, aro
dowelled to the longitudinal plates to prevent them, the said cross plates,
from slipping outwards. The centre cross plate lics in the rebates formed
in the longitudinal plates, and also in rebates formed on the insides of
the other cross plates.
By this arrangement the centre cross plate may be removed and
replaced with but little delay, and without disturbance of the "fettling
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so said contro plata
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Scott in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd October 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
SCOTT, of Bilston, in the County of Stafford, Furnace Builder, send 2
grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc- 3
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Scott, Her special
licence that I, the said William Scott, my exccutors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Scott, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no

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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 "IMPROVEMENTS
3'IN THE BOTTOM PLATES AND BEARERS FOR PUDDLING AND BALLING FURNACES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Scott,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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 William Scott, do hereby declaro
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, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing,
(that is to say) :-
My Invention has for its object the easy and speedy removal and
replacement of the centre bottom plate without injury to the "fettling"
of the furnace, and consists as follows :-
I fix at the back of the furnace and in the interior a.plate running
the length of and shaped to suit the said furnace, and rebated on the
inside to receive other plates, having also a raised flange on its outsido
to receive the air plates.
I fix also at the front of the furnace another plate running the length
of and shaped to suit the furnace, and having a raised flange on its
outsido at each of the jambs to receive the air plates. I use three plates
to form the bottom of the furnace between the two longitudinal plates
already described, and I construct the said plates to lie crosswise in the
furnace, and to fit in and be carried by the rebates in the longitudinal
plate at the back and to lic on the plate at the front. The centre
cross plate and preferably the other cross plates I make of such dimen-
sions that they may be passed through the opening left in the breast
of the furnace when the fore plate is removed. The longitudinal plates
are carried on four bearers which are hollowed to receive the bottom of
the rebate before-mentioned, and also to receive the front longitudinal.
plate, thus preventing the longitudinal plates from moving outwards.
.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same may be performed, I
declare that I claim the longitudinal plates A. and B; the cross plates C, C,
and D and the bearers E, E, E, E, in combination with each other, for
the purpose herein described, and as the exact form is not necessary
to the success of the Invention I do not confine myself to the exact
form as illustrated, but claim such modifications. also as follow obviously
from and are in harmony with the general description of this, my
Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Scott, have hereunto set my.
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
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Witness,
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Patent Office,
Wolverhampton.
WILLIAM SCOTT. (L.S.),