PREPARING A MATERIAL CAPABLE OF RESISTING FIRE, AND ESPECIALLY SUITABLE INTER
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Hill, of Ocker Hill, Tipton, in the County of
Stafford, Forge Manager, for the Invention of "PREPARING A MATERIAL
CAPABLE OF RESISTING FIRE, AND ESPECIALLY SUITABLE FOR THE INTERIOR OF
Stafford, Forge Manager, for the Invention of "PREPARING A MATERIAL
CAPABLE OF RESISTING FIRE, AND ESPECIALLY SUITABLE FOR THE INTERIOR OF
PUDDLING AND OTHER FURNACES.
Sealed the 29th February 1856, and dated the 15th September 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Hill at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th September
1855.
I, DAVID HILL, of Ocker Hill, Tipton, in the County of Stafford, Forge
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "PREPARING
A MATERIAL CAPABLE OF RESISTING FIRE, AND ESPECIALLY SUITABLE FOR THE
INTERIOR OF PUDDLING AND OTHER FURNACES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of combining and melting limestone with ironstone,
or with the cinder from puddling furnaces, or from ball or mill furnaces, and
of running or casting the same into moulds or otherwise, and thus making
a material capable of resisting fire, especially suitable for the interior of
puddling and other furnaces.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said David Hill in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th
March 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
HILL, of Ocker Hill, Tipton, in the County of Stafford, Forge Manager, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said David Hill, Her special licence that I, the said David Hill, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said David
Hill, 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 "PREPARING A MATERIAL
CAPABLE OF RESISTING FIRE, AND ESPECIALLY SUITABLE FOR THE INTERIOR OF
PUDDLING AND OTHER FURNACES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said David Hill, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should parti-
cularly 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 David Hill, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention consists of combining and melting limestone with ironstone,
or with the cinder from puddling furnaces, or from ball or mill furnaces, and
of running or casting the same into moulds or otherwise, and thus making a
material capable of resisting fire, especially suitable for the interior of puddling
and other furnaces.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.

page_text: The proportions of the materials above mentioned may be greatly varied; I,
however, prefer to employ them in the following proportions:-One-sixth part
of limestone; two-thirds parts of ironstone or of cinder from a puddling, ball,
or mill furnace. These being commixed and fused, are run into moulds
according to the form and size of shaped or moulded lump desired.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Hill, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
E. NAYLER.
DAVID HILL. (L.S.)