AN IMPROVEMENT IN SEPARATING OR PRE- CIPITATING COPPER FROM WATER HAVING IT IN SOLUTION
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Higgs, junior, of Penzance, in the County of
Cornwall, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN SEPARATING OR PRE-
CIPITATING COPPER FROM WATER HAVING IT IN SOLUTION."
Sealed the 9th August 1858, and dated the 17th May 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Higgs at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
May 1858.
I, SAMUEL IIIGGS, junior, of Penzance, in the County of Cornwall, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN SEPARATING OR
PRECIPITATING COPPER FROM WATER, HAVING IT IN SOLUTION," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in separating or pre-
cipitating copper from water having it in solution. For this purpose the
water is placed in tanks of wood or other suitable material, together with scrap
iron, and the water is heated by steam or otherwise, it being preferred to
employ for this purpose jets of free steam.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Higgs, junior, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th November 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
HIGGS, junior, of Penzance, in the County of Cornwall, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Samuel Higgs, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Higgs, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel
Higgs, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
SEPARATING OR PRECIPITATING COPPER FROM WATER HAVING IT IN SOLUTION," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Higgs, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, 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 I, the said Samuel Higgs, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the samo is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in separating or pre-
cipitating copper from water having it in solution. For this purpose tho
water is placed in tanks of wood or other suitable material, together with scrap
iron, and the water is heated by steam or otherwise, it being preferred to
employ for this purpose jets of free steam.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed more fully
to describe the manner of performing the same.
Tho water having in it a solution of copper, is placed in a tank of wood or
other suitable material, which is to have suitable means or apparatus applied
thereto for heating the water therein. This heating of the water and scrap

page_text: iron in the tank may be accomplished in various ways; I, however, prefer to
use jets of free steam for the purpose, and such jets of free steam are intro-
duced at or near the bottom of the tank. Scrap iron is introduced into the
tank with the water, as heretofore practised. By thus heating the water
containing copper in solution, the copper is more advantageously separated by
the scrap iron.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel IIiggs, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
SAM. HIGGS, JR. (L.S.)