A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROCESS NOW IN USE FOR PRODUCING OR MAKING MALLEABLE IRON
Year: 1832

page_text: G. JONES, J. FOSTER, J. BARKER, & J. JONES'S
SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
JONES, of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, Iron Master, JAMES
FOSTER, of Stourbridge, in the County of Worcester, Iron Master, and JOHN
BARKER and JOHN JONES, both of Wolverhampton aforesaid, Iron Masters,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,.
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Eighth day of September, in the third year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
George Jones, James Foster, John Barker, and John Jones, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said George
Jones, James Foster, John Barker, and John Jones, our exors, admors, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said George Jones, James Foster, John
Barker, and John Jones, our exors, adiñors, 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, our Invention of "A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROCESS
NOW IN USE FOR PRODUCING OR MAKING MALLEABLE IRON;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that we, the said George Jones, James
Foster, John Barker, and John Jones, or one of us, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His said 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
George Jones, James Foster, John Barker, and John Jones, do hereby

page_text: declare the nature of our Invention, and the manner in which the same is to
be performed, are particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
description thereof, that is to say :-
Our Invention consists in taking. the iron whilst.in.the.melted or fluid state
direct from the blast furnace, in which the iron ore, or iron stone, or slag or
scoria containing iron, has been smelted, and conveying, charging, or putting
such iron whilst in such melted or fluid state into the puddling furnace to be
there puddled, and brought to a malleable state. But in order that our
Invention may be more clearly understood and carried into effect we will
proceed to describe the manner. we have pursued in working our improve-
ment. We run the smelted iron from the blast furnace into iron ladles, and
convey it immediately into the puddling furnace, and when sufficient charge is
placed therein it will be evident that the metal-is-in-like condition as if pig
iron had been reheated or remelted in the puddling furnace. The process of
puddling is then carried on and completed in like manner as if pig iron had
been reheated or remelted. It will be evident that were the situation and levels
of the puddling furnaces such as to admit the liquid or fluid iron flowing
directly from the blast furnace into the puddling furnace; 'much labour will be
saved in rendering the conveyance of the liquid iron by ladles or other suitable
vessels unnecessary, and we particularly recommend this last arrangement
where practicable.
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Having now described the nature of our Invention; and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, we would have it understood that what we claim
as our Invention is, the taking or conveying, whilst in a liquid or melted state,
the iron direct from the blast furnace into the puddling furnace, and puddling
or converting the same into malleable iron, by which improvement we' save
the labour and fuel requisite for remelting pig iron, and the loss of iron
consequent upon such remelting in the puddling furnace.
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In witness whereof, we, the said George Jones, James Foster, John
Barker, and John Jones, have hereunto set hand and seal, this
Fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and thirty-three.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifth day of March, in the
year of our Lord 1833, the aforesaid John Barker, on behalf of himself
and George Jones, James Foster, and John Jones, came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-three.