A NEW OR AN IMPROVED METHOD OF ANd ▲ Furnace FOR MELTING BRASS OR CAST IRON AND OTHER METALS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Russell, of Lydbrook, in the County of
Gloucester, Ironmaster, for the Invention of "A NEW OR AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF ANd ▲ Furnace FOR MELTING BRASS OR CAST IRON AND OTHER
METALS."
Scaled the 29th June 1875, and dated the 21st April 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Russell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st April 1875.
I, WILLIAM RUSSELL, of Lydbrook, in the County of Gloucester,
Ironmaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A
NEW OR AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND A FURNACE FOR MELTING BRASS OR CAST
IRON AND OTHER METALS," to be as follows:-
A furnace to be constructed on a given scale and of the material of
brick and iron to consist of a grating for fire within brick walls, with
blast hole underneath one side thereof, and opening for removal of
cinders, which is closed except for that purpose. At a height according
to scale above the fire a slanting sandy surface to be constructed on an

page_text: iron floor whereon will be placed the brass or cast iron required to be
melted, the brass being inserted through an entrance by the side of the
furnace. At the extremity of the slant will be placed an iron ladle to
catch the moulten brass or iron. On the top of furnace will be placed
a brick covering within iron bonds for the purpose of preventing escape
of heat, the extremity of which and over the ladle is an escape for tho
wasted flame. Flames from the fire pass over, or under, or through the
brass, iron, or other metal required to be melted, and which is placed on
the sandy surface, the metal running down into the ladle, and the flamo
escaping as last above stated.
The plan and Drawings accompanying this are drawn from a model of
the furnace, prepared on a scale of three inches to the foot, and the
particular parts thereof are indicated by numbers.
The furnace may be worked from the fan blast, the fuel used for the
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Russell in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st August 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
RUSSELL, of Lydbrook, in the County of Gloucester, Ironmaster, send
greeting.
2
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of April, in the 1
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Russell, Her
special licence, that I, the said William Russell, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Russell,
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,

page_text: exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"A NEW OR AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND A FURNACE FOR MELTING BRASS OR
CAST IRON AND OTHER METALS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Russell, 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 he, the said William Russell, do hereby declare
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:-
A new or an improved method of and a furnace for melting brass or
cast iron and other metals, to be as follows :—
A furnace to be constructed on a given scale of the material of brick
and iron to consist of a grating for fire within brick walls with blast hole
underneath on one side thereof, and opening for removal of cinders,
which is closed except for that purpose. At a height according to scale
above the fire a slanting sandy surface to be constructed on an iron floor
whercon will be placed the brass or cast iron required to be melted, the
brass being inserted through an entrance by the side of the furnace.
At the extremity of the slant will be placed an iron ladle to catch the
molten brass or iron. On the top of furnace will be placed a brick
covering within iron bands for the purpose of preventing escape of heat,
the extremity of which and over the ladle is an escape for the wasted
flame. Flames from the fire pass over, or under, or through the brass,
iron, or other metal required to bo melted, and which is placed on the
sandy surface, the metal running down into the ladle and the flame
escaping as last above stated.
The plan and Drawings accompanying this are drawn from a model of
the furnace, prepared on a scale of one inch to the foot, and the par-
ticular parts thereof are indicated by numbers.
The furnace may be worked from the fan blast, the fuel used for the
purpose of this furnace being coke.

page_text: A furnace constructed on the scale of the accompanying plans will
melt from one to one hundred and twelve pounds.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Russell, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
JNO. LEO. PIDDOCKE,
Sol.,
Ross.
WILLIAM RUSSELL. (L.s.)