IMPROVEMENTS IN PURIFYING OR REFINING IRON
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Dixon, of Abchurch Yard, in the City of
London, Ironmaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PURIFYING
OR REFINING IRON."
Sealed the 11th May 1866, and dated the 14th November 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Dixon at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th
November 1865.
I, JOHN DIXON, of Abchurch Yard, in the City of London, Ironmaster,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PURIFYING OR REFINING IRON," to be as follows:
This Invention consists in purifying or refining iron when in a melted state
by projecting it or allowing it to fall down a pit shaft, tower, or otherwise
through the air, in order to bring every particle into contact with the air or
with other gases which may exist or be generated in the pit shaft or tower.
By thus coming in contact with the air the metal rapidly increases in heat,
and may be collected at any part of its fall in moulds or otherwise in a purified
or refined state..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Dixon in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th May 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
DIXON, of Abchurch Yard, in the City of London, Ironmaster, send
greeting.
.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Dixon, Her special licence that I, the said John
Dixon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said John Dixon, 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 PURIFYING OR REFINING IRON," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Dixon, 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 John Dixon, do hereby declare the
nature of my 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 in purifying or refining iron when in a melted state.
by projecting it or allowing it to fall down a pit shaft, tower, or otherwise
through the air, in order to bring every particle into contact with the air or with
other. gases which may exist or be generated in the pit shaft or tower. By
thus coming in contact with the air the metal rapidly increases in heat, and
may be collected at any part of its fall in moulds or otherwise in a purified
or refined state, either partially or entirely converted into malleable metal.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim purifying or
refining iron substantially in the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Dixon, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of May, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six.
JOHN DIXON. (L.B.)