Apparatus for Manufacturing Artificial Fuel Blocks.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Loft, 7th Juno, 1980 Accented 24th Aug.. 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by CHARLES ANDONY, of No. 61, Rue de la Victoire,
Paris, in the Republic of France, Merchant.]
Apparatus for Manufacturing Artificial Fuel Blocks.
We, L'AGENCE MARITIME ANGLAISE Limited, of No. 128 Bute Street, Cardiff, in
the County of Glamorgan, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
In many cases, instead of carrying slack or small coal to fixed machinery_for
forming it into fuel blocks, it is of advantage to transfer such machinery to the place
where the slack or coal is furnished.
This invention relates to a compact and portable arrangement of apparatus for this
purpose. On a truck, which may have wheels suited for road or for rails or trams, is
placed a steam engine and in some cases a boiler, which however may be on a separate
truck. The engine by suitable gearing works several machines which are also
Pounted on the truck, first, a measuring apparatus by which suitable proportions of the
small coal or slack and of the pitch or other agglutinant are furnished to, secondly, an
elevator which carries these materials up and delivers them into, thirdly, a pug mill,
whence after thorough mixture, the material is delivered into, fourthly, a moulding
machine. The blocks are delivered from the moulding machine, which may be of any
known kind, either such as moulds the fuel into blocks of brick form, or such as gives
them forms of ovoid shape.
Dated this 25th day of January 1889.
ABEL & IMKAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Apparatus for Manufacturing Artificial Fuel Blocks.
We, L'AGENCE MARITIME ANGLAISE Limited of No. 128 Bute Street, Cardiff, in
the County of Glamorgan, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
In many cases, instead of carrying slack or small coal to fixed machinery for
forming it into fuel blocks, it is of advantage to transfer such machinery to the place
where the slack or coal is furnished.
This invention relates to a compact and portable arrangement of apparatus for this
purpose. On a truck, which may have wheels suited for road or for rails, or trams, is
placed a steam engine and in some cases a boiler, which however may be on a separate
truck. The engine by suitable gearing works several machines which are also
mounted on the truck, first, a measuring apparatus by which suitable portions of the
small coal or slack and of the pitch or other agglutinant are furnished to, secondly,
an elevator, which carries these materials up and delivers them into, thirdly, a pug
mill, whence after thorough mixture, the material is delivered into, fourthly, a
moulding machine. The blocks are delivered from the moulding machine, which may
be of any known kind, either such as moulds the fuel into blocks of brick form, or
such as gives them forius of ovoid shape.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a side elevation, Fig. 2 is an end view and
Fig. 3 is a plan of apparatus according to this invention. On a truck I having two
pairs of wheels J (one pair of which should lock on a perch pin to allow for moving
in curves) is fixed a steam engine A of any convenient form which is supplied with

page_text: steam from a separate boiler. From the crank shaft of the engine A motion is com-
municated by suitable gearing E to the machines which are as follow. B is a pug
mill in which the sinall coal is pugged with agglutinant. (is the moulding machine
consisting of two rollers having semi-ovoid recesses in their peripheries. Eis a chain
elevator, and G is the measuring apparatus by which the proportion of the coal to
agglutinant is determined. Hare beams and struts which support the elevator F and
measuring apparatus G, and which can be detached from the truck when it is moved
from place to place. The small coal or slack and agglutinant are fed to the measuring
apparatus G, are carried up by the elevator F and delivered into the pug mill B in
which they are thoroughly mingled. From B the mixture passes between the rollers C
which mould it into ovoid blocks.
Fig. 4 is a side view and Fig. a plan of the truck arranged to carry a boiler K
and a moulding apparatus L of another kind, delivering at M fuel blocks of brick
form.
The truck shewn in Figs 1, 2 and 3 might be lengthened sufficiently to carry a
boiler as in Figs. 4 and 5, and the measuring apparatus and elevator may be attached
at its end instead of being at the side.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
Apparatus for manufacturing artificial fuel blocks, consisting of an engine with or
without a boiler, a pug mill, a moulding machine and gear for driving these from the
engine shaft all mounted on a wheeled truck, so that the apparatus may be conveniently
transferred from place to place substantially as described.
Dated this 7th day of June 1889
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.