IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ÅRTIFicial Fuel
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Deere, of Briton Ferry, in the County of
Glamorgan, Coal Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ÅRTIFicial Fuel "
Scaled the 5th November 1872, and dated the 5th August 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Deere at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th August 1872.
I, JOHN DEERE, of Briton Ferry, in the County of Glamorgan, Coal
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL," to be as follows :—
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
artificial fuel, and consists in combining with small coal a solution of
silicate of soda or other soluble silicate together with aluminous clay,
or chalk, or lime, and to prevent the formation of clinker a small
quantity, that is to say, from about one quarter per cent. to one per cent.
of any of the following 5 ingredients, viz.,

page_text: The solution of silicate of soda or other soluble silicate with any of the
said 5 ingredients is first mixed with the aluminous clay, chalk, or lime,
or any one of them, in the proportion of about 5 per cent. of silicate to
about 4 per cent., of the clay, chalk, · or lime, until reduced to an even
creamy consistence, then mix them with 'about 90 per cent. of coal, and
when well mixed press into blocks.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Deere in the Great Scal Patent Office on
the 4th February 1873.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
DEERE, of Briton Ferry, in the County of Glamorgan, Coal Agent, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent. Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said John Deere, Her special license that
I, the said John Deere, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said John Deere, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 Ohannel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said John Deere, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within. six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Deere, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
artificial fuel, and consists in combining with small coal or peat, or small
coal and peat, a solution of silicate of soda or other soluble silicate
together with aluminous clay, or chalk, or lime, and to prevent the
formation of clinker a small quantity, that is to say, from about onc
quarter per cent. to one per cent., of any of the following five ingredients,