IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF STACKS OR WALLS OF CUPOLA,
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Toussaint of Alum Rock, Upper Saltley near
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Scientific Chemist, for an Invention
of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF STACKS OR WALLS OF CUPOLA,
ALAMY
303
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Toussaint at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th October 1882.
JOSEPH TOUSSAINT, of Alum Rock; Upper Saltley, near Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick Scientific Chemist. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF STACKS OR WALLS OF CUPOLA, BLAST, CASTING POT. AND OTHER LIKE FURNACES
FOR THE PERFECT DISTRIBUTION OF THE HEAT BLAST THEREIN
"
The object of this Invention is to construct the stacks or walls of furnaces above
referred to with an annular or other shaped chamber between the outer wall and
the lining, said lining having openings between each fire brick or between every
two or more of said bricks in regular or other order, to permit the blast from the
tuyeres and from the annular or other chamber to become broken up and enter
the furnace proper in streams or bodies over, into, and among the charge from
above the bason to near the upper part or charging hole, but in all cases about a
foot, more or less, below the top of the coke in the same.
The annular or other shaped chamber between the outer wall and the lining
with the openings in the lining is applicable to those furnaces in which no artificial-
blast is used.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Joseph Toussaint in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th April
1888.
JOSEPH TOUSSAINT of Alum Rock, Upper Saltley, near Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Scientific Chemist IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
STACKS OR WALLS OF CUPOLA,, BLAST, CASTING-POT AND OTHER LIKE FURNACES
FOR THE PERFECT DISTRIBUTION OF THE HEAT BLAST THEREIN
The object of this Invention is to construct the stacks or walls of cupola, blast,
casting-pot and other like furnaces with an annular or other shaped chamber
between the outer wall and the lining, and in making openings between each layer
of fire brick or between every two or more layers of said bricks in. irregular or
other order to permit the blast from the tuyeres and from the annular or other
chamber to become broken up and enter the furnace proper in streams or bodies
over, into, and amongst the charge from above the bason to near the upper part or
charging hole, but in all cases about a foot more or less below the top of the coke
in the same.
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The annular or other shaped chamber between the outer wall and the lining
with the openings in the lining are also applicable to those furnaces in which no
artificial blast is used
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed
I declare that I claim :-
The construction of furnaces with a chamber between the outer and the inner or
lining walls in combination with openings in the lining wall at regular or irregular
distances apart for the distribution or diffusion of air or of heat into and amongst
the material under treatment in the furnace as and for the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof I the said Joseph Toussaint have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Ninth day of April in the year of our Lord, One thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.
JOSEPH TOUSSAINT Gol