IMPROVEMENTS IN PUDDLING AND BALLING FURNACES FOR HEATING AND MELTING IRON OR STEEL."
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Caddick, of the Garndyn's Iron Works, Thomas
Hemmings, also of the Garndyn's Iron Works, and David Caddick, of the
Ebbw Vale Iron Works, near Newport, Monmouth, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PUDDLING AND BALLING FURNACES FOR HEATING AND
MELTING IRON OR STEEL."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Caddick, Thomas
Hemmings, and David Caddick at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 24th April 1857.
WC, JAMES CADDICK, of the Garndyn's Iron Works, THOMAS HEMMINGS,
also of the Garndyn's Iron Works, and DAVID CADDICK, of the Ebbw Vale
Iron Works, near Newport, Monmouth, do hereby declare the nature of the
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PUDDLING AND BALLING FURNACES FOR HEATING
AND MELTING IRON OR STEEL," to be as follows:-
:
For these purposes puddling furnaces are each constructed with a door and
feed hole on one side near the bridge to work one heat, and also a door on the
contrary side near the stack to work one heat. There is what we call a sham
door on hinges over each working door, so as to prevent the heat interfering
-with the man while at work, likewise to provent the wind and air interfering

page_text: with the working of the furnace. This construction of furnace is peculiar,
owing to its admitting of the heating of two heats of iron at one and the same
time. The flame passes over one heat of iron after the other. The furnace is
also constructed with a preparing chamber underneath the stack to charge the
heat for the furnace next to the stack, so as the one heat can be charged when
the puddler finishes balling his heat, so as to get that heat sufficiently heated
so as to be ready to melt with the heat that is charged next to the bridge.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Caddick, Thomas Hemmings, and David Caddick in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd October 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
CADDICK, of the Garndyn's Iron Works, THOMAS HEMMINGS, also of the
Garndyn's Iron Works, and DAVID CADDICK, of the Ebbw Vale Iron Works,
near Newport, Monmouth, send greeting.
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 fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said James Caddick, Thomas Hemmings, and David Caddick, Her special
licence that we, the said James Caddick, Thomas Hemmings, and David
Caddick, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said James Caddick, Thomas Hemmings, and David Caddick, our 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, usc, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PUDDLING AND BALLING
FURNACES FOR HEATING AND MELTING IRON OR STEEL," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said James Caddick, Thomas Hemmings, and
David Caddick, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or
them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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.

page_text: way as the puddling furnaces above described, but they are made somewhat
wider.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Caddick, Thomas Hemmings, and
David Caddick, have hereunto set our hands and scals, this Twentieth
day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
mark
The × JAMES CADDICK. (L.S.)
of
THOMAS HEMMINGS.
DAVID CADDICK.
(L.S.).
(L.S.).
Witness,
THOMAS THOMAS,
of Blaenavon Iron Works.