IMPROVEMENTS IN UTILIZING BORINGS, TURNINGS, FILINGS, PLANINGS, AND OTHER PARTICLES OF IBON
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joshua Thornton, of Cleckheaton, in the County'
of York, Machine Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
UTILIZING BORINGS, TURNINGS, FILINGS, PLANINGS, AND OTHER PARTICLES OF
IBON."
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Sealed the 18th February 1873, and dated the 22nd August 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joshua Thornton at
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the Office of the Commissioners of, Patents, with his Petition, on
the 22nd August 1872.
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I, JOSHUA THORNTON, of Cleckheaton, in the County of York,
Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN UTILIZING BORINGS, TURNINGS, FILINGS, PLANINGS, AND
OTHER PARTICLES OF IRON," to be as follows:-
Borings, turnings, filings, planings, and other particles of iron have
heretofore been utilized by being thrown into furnaces in a loss state
for making wrought metal, but not with advantage for mixing with pig
metal for iron castings, and when so used in a loose state they are liable.
to fly away, and their value is greatly lost.

page_text: According to my Invention I mix the borings, turnings, filings,
planings, or other particles of iron with water or other fluid, and then I
compress the mass in moulds, as when making bricks. The bricks or
moulded forms obtained are allowed to oxidize and dry, when they may
be melted in a cupola or other furnace for cast or wrought metal.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joshua Thornton in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 20th February 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSHUA
THORNTON, of Cleckheaton, in the County of York, Machine Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Joshua Thornton, Her special license
that I, the said Joshua Thornton, my exccutors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Joshua Thornton, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
UTILIZING BORINGS, TURNINGS, FILINGS, PLANINGS, AND OTHER PARTICLES OF
IRON," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joshua
Thornton, 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 he filed in
the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joshua Thornton, 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 thereof, that is to say :—

page_text: Borings, turnings, filings, planings, and other particles of iron (cast
or wrought) have heretofore been utilized by being thrown into furnaces
in a loose state for making wrought metal, but not with advantage for
mixing with pig metal for iron castings, and when so used in a loose
state they are liable to fly away, and their value is consequently greatly
lost.
According to my Invention I mix the. borings, turnings, filings,
planings, or other particles of iron by wetting for damping them with
water or other liquid so as to produce oxidation, and then whilst damp
or wet I compress the mass in moulds of any suitable form, as when
moulding clay or other plastic substances. The forms obtained are then
exposed to the action of the atmosphere to oxidize and dry, and then
they may be melted in a cupola or other furnace for cast or wrought
metal, and the metal obtained used as other cast iron.
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Having thus described my Invention and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I
claim is, the utilizing of borings, turnings, filings, planings, and other
particles of iron by damping or wetting with water or other liquid, and
then compressing them into forms, oxidizing and drying such forms
before subjecting them to a melting process, substantially as described.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Joshua Thornton, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Fifteenth day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
TOSHTY A
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