invented CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON
Year: 1833

page_text: TO, ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
SAMUEL DAWES, of Bromford Works, West Bromwich, in the County of
Stafford, Iron Master, send greeting.
WHEREAS I did, by Petition, represent unto His most Excellent Majesty
King William the Fourth, that 'I had 'invented CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON," and "His said Majesty, being willing to give
encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for the public good,
did issue Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth day of January, in the third year of His
reign, whereby His said Majesty did, for, Himself, His heirs and, successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Samuel Dawes, my exors, adñiors,
and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
I, the said John Samuel Dawes, my exors, admors, and assigns, by myself
or themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as I, the said John Samuel Dawes, my exors, adñiors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within
that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Samuel Dawes, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Samuel Dawes, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained by the following description thereof (that is to say):-
My improvements consist in producing malleable iron from iron slag or
cinders, or other oxides of iron, by mixing with such oxides coal, charcoal, or
other matters or substances having greater affinity for oxygen than iron has,
and submitting the same to heat in a reverberatory or other furnace, and con-
tinuing such process until decomposition be effected.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-
he mos of our Land One thousand nicht
be performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Samuel Dawes, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained by the following description thereof (that is to say):―
My improvements consist in producing malleable iron from iron slag or
cinders, or other oxides of iron, by mixing with such oxides coal, charcoal, or
other matters or substances having greater affinity for oxygen than iron has,
and submitting the same to heat in a reverberatory or other furnace, and con-
tinuing such process until decomposition be effected.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-
of our Lord One thousand night
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hundred and thirty-three.
JOHN SAMUEL (L.s.) DAWES.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of July,
in the year of our Lord 1833, the aforesaid John Samuel Dawes came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
hundred and thirty-three.
JOHN SAMUEL (L.s:) DAWES.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of July,
in the year of our Lord 1833, the aforesaid John Samuel Dawes came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.