IMPROVEMENTS IN REFRACTORY OR FIRE- BRICKS, TILES, BLOCKS PIPES TUYERES AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES AND IN FIRE CEMENT FOR THE SAME
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Williams of Liverpool in the county of
Lancaster for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN REFRACTORY OR FIRE-
BRICKS, TILES, BLOCKS PIPES TUYERES AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES AND IN
FIRE CEMENT FOR THE SAME
"2
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Williams at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd January 1883.
JOSEPH WILLIAMS of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster
"
IMPROVEMENTS
IN REFRACTORY OR FIRE BRICKS, TILES, BLOCKS, PIPES, TUYERES AND OTHER
LIKE ARTICLES AND IN FIRE CEMENT FOR THE SAME."
My materials preferably consist of carbon and silica only to enable these to
combine and form a solid mass. I take ground quartz ganister or other rock con-
sisting almost exclusively of anhydrous silica (Sil O₁) without basic materials
and mix therewith any thick liquid hydrocarbon or mixture of hydrocarbons from
which most of the lighter hydrocarbons have been distilled or I otherwise remove
the lighter hydrocarbons the proportion of hydrocarbon being only sufficient to
bind the silica, any greater quantity being deleterious. The resulting mixture I
form or press with heavy pressure into brick or other moulds and dry in a stove.
As a cement to bind these together I take the bricks thus formed grind or crush
them to powder and mix with a little fresh hydrocarbon or else take the fresh
material prepared for making bricks and use it as a cement. When used for
chemical pipes I calcine the pipe first just as earthenware pipes are calcined I also
do this some times in the case of bricks crucibles and other articles.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joseph Williams in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd July
1883.
JOSEPH WILLIAMS of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS
IN REFRACTORY OR FIRE BRICKS, TILES, BLOCKS PIPES, TUYERES, AND OTHER
LIKE ARTICLES, AND IN FIRE CEMENT FOR THE SAME
"
My materials preferably consist of carbon and silica only, to enable these to
combine and form a solid mass I take ground quartz, ganister or other rock, con-
sisting almost exclusively of anhydrous silica (Si O.) without basic materials, and
mix therewith any thick liquid hydro-carbon, or mixture of hydrocarbons, from
which most of the lighter hydrocarbons have been distilled, or I otherwise removo
the lighter hydrocarbons, the proportion of hydrocarbon being only sufficient to
bind the Silica, any greater quantity being deleterious. The resulting mixture I
form or press with heavy pressure into brick or other moulds, and dry in a Stove.
As a cement to bind these together I take the bricks thus formed, grind or crush
them to powder, and mix with a little fresh hydrocarbon, or else take the.fresh
material prepared for making bricks and use it as a cement.
I find however that though I can make crucibles in this manner they are of
little value, being too porous or brittle for most purposes, therefore I propose not
to make any claim for these.
Having described my invention and the best manner of carrying it into effect,
I claim as my invention to be protected under the letters patent. The manufacture
of bricks, tiles, blocks, tuyeres, pipes and the like, of granular or pulverulent silica,
and carbonaceous matter substantially as described.
In witness whereof I the said Joseph Williams have hereunto set my hand
and seal this twenty sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
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