IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF PUDDLING FUR- NACES, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER FURNACES USED IN THE GENERATION OF STEAM
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Beasley junior, of Smethwick, in the
County of Stafford, Iron Master, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF PUDDLING FUR-
NACES, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER FURNACES
USED IN THE GENERATION OF STEAM."
Sealed the 11th April 1854, and dated the 25th October 1853...
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Beasley at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 25th October 1853.
I, JOSEPH BEASLEY jun', of Smethwick, in the County of Stafford,
Iron Master, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF PUDDLING
FURNACES, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER FURNACES
USED IN THE GENERATION OF STEAM," to be as follows, that is to say:-
My improvements consist in so constructing and arranging furnaces
with respect to the boilers used in generating steam as to present a
greater amount of heating surface and obtain increased economy. To
effect this I place the furnace inside the boiler, which is of the ordinary

page_text: domed form, by which means a puddling furnace may be partially or
even entirely surrounded with the water employed for the generation of
the steam. The same method is equally applicable to air furnaces,
other than those used for puddling.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Beasley in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th April 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOSEPH BEASLEY junior, of Smethwick, in the County of Stafford, Iron
Master, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Beasley junior, Her
special licence that I, the said Joseph Beasley junior, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Beasley
junior, 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 THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF PUDDLING
FURNACES, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER FURNACES
USED IN THE GENERATION OF STEAM," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I; the said Joseph Beasley junior, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, 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 Joseph Beasley junior, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawings here-
unto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is
to say:
.
My improvements consist in so constructing and arranging puddling
and other furnaces with respect to the boilers used for generating steam
as to present a greater amount of heating surface, and, in the case of
puddling furnaces, to obtain increased economy of the mineral or pottery
mine:
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, is a ground plan of a puddling furnace; Fig. 2, a cross
section of same through the puddling.chamber.
.I. will now proceed to describe its construction. At intervals, along
the sides of the furnace, I place lengths of wrought iron tubes (/, h.)
fixed vertically in the brickwork, their lower ends fixed, and opening
into larger tubes (A, A,) running longitudinally the entire length of
the furnace sides. The upper ends of the tubes (h) are fixed, and open
into still larger tubes (B, B,) running parallel to the sides of the
furnace, and communicating by the connecting pipes (m, m,) with the
steam cylinder (C); (F) is the fire-grate, lined with fire-brick as at
(E, E), and separated by the bridge from the puddling chamber (P),
which has the usual lining of puddling mineral, as seen at (d, d); (g, g.)
are pipes connecting the horizontal tubes (A, .A). The whole of the
tubes A, B, and G, are kept filled with water, which being converted
into steam passes through the pipes (m) into the steam cylinder (C),
by which means much furnace heat now lost may be made available for
the generation of steam. It is evident that by this arrangement, of
having the sides of the puddling chamber surrounded with water tubes,
the mineral used for lining the chamber is considerably preserved from
the action of the fire, and consequently a great saving is effected in the
making up the furnace. The same system of tubing will be equally
applicable to other furnaces besides those employed for puddling, and
in some cases I might prefer to make my boiler of what is known as
the Butterley or any other suitable form, and fix it on the crown of my

page_text: furnace. The details would be so nearly identical with those mentioned
that further description becomes unnecessary.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is practically to be carried into effect, I wish
it to be clearly understood that I do not confine myself to the precise
details herein specified, nor to the form of furnace shewn; but what
I claim as my Invention is, the arrangement and application of a
system of tubing, as herein set forth and described, for the purpose of
rendering available the waste heat from puddling and other furnaces,
and employing it in the generation of steam, and for preserving and
economising the mineral or pottery mine used in lining puddling
chambers.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Beasley junior, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of April, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
four.
JOSEPH (L.S.) BEASLEY JUN³.