IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF PEAT AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME
Year: 1883

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Kendall at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 26th February 1883.
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JOHN KENDALL of Cornwall Lodge Kingston Hill in the County of Surrey
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF PEAT AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME
The improvements relate to the mode of cutting collecting compressing drying
and treating raw peat from bogs.
I pare off the surface of the bog mechanically by means of a special cutting
implement the knife or knives of which is or are arranged horizontally at any
convenient angle and at a depth from the surface which can be regulated as desired
and is or are fixed to a travelling frame fastened to a Wire or other rope hauled by
horse steam Water Electric or other power in manner somewhat similar to that in
which a steam plough is worked on arable land.
The surface of the bog having been removed I cut the bog vertically in situ by
machinery (several cuts being made longitudinally at the same time) by means of
a special cutting implement having vertical knives fixed to a travelling frame
fastened to a rope hauled as above mentioned, the said cuts being made parallel
to each other and to a width and depth which can be regulated as desired.
I then cut the same bog by the same implement transversely and more or less at
right angles.
Then by the implement first above mentioned I under-cut the bog horizontally.
Sometimes I combine the two operations in the same implement whereby the
vertical cuts in one direction and the under cuts are made simultaneously, and in
this case I sometimes employ Wires in lieu of or in addition to vertical knives.
I make the foregoing implements reversible whereby they can be worked each
way without delay.
The combined effect of the above operations is to mechanically cut the natural
peat bog in situ into any desired shapes and size which shapes can be easily collected
by manual labour and placed in trucks and wheeled to the compressing machinery
or such shapes may be collected and conveyed by means of a scoop collector or
sledge bauled as before mentioned.
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I dry the peat by compression by means of special machinery for that purpose,
the fluids being expressed and the fibrous matter compressed for transport by one

page_text: and the same operation-For this purpose I sometimes pass the Peat between or
under rollers and sometimes I employ hydraulic or other presses.
The final drying process I perform in a covered shed which is sometimes heated
by flues or pipes through over under or by which I convey the compressed peat
from the compressing machinery by means of an endless carrier..
By the means aforesaid I make up the compressed and dried peat i nto bales for
the Consumer almost immediately after cutting the Wet peat from the raw bog.
Peat so treated is well adapted for litter, bedding, packing, fuel, domestic,
horticultural, & other purposes on the same being properly broken up prior to use.
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