Specification of Charles Barlow : furnaces.

  • Barlow, Charles.
Date:
1857
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Charles Barlow : furnaces. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Barlow's Smoke and Gas Consuming Hot-air Blast Furnace. ducing a new element, which is also a supporter of combustion, and in producing this combination and mingling before these substances come in contact with the fire, and in feeding all these under the fire, thus rendering their combustion most complete; and also effecting the same in the most economical manner, and securing the greatest amount of heat therefrom, and 5 in regulating the action of my Invention, & consequently the draft of the furnace, by the pressure of steam in the boiler decreasing the draft as the pressure becomes too great, and increasing it as the pressure falls too low, thus rendering the whole automatic and self-adjusting. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed 10 by the said Charles Barlow in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th October 1857. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Charles Barlow, of the Office for Patents, 89, Chancery Lane, London, send greeting. 15 WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Barlow, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Barlow, my 20 executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Barlow, 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 25 Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Consuming the Smoke and Gases of Furnaces, and at the same time Furnishing a Hot-air Blast, being a Smoke and Gas-consuming Hot-air Blast Furnace,” a communication from Thomas Aldridge, of the City of Hudson, Jersey, United States, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Barlow, my executors or adminis- 30 trators, 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. 35