AN IMPROVED FUEL
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Cesar Chanel, of No. 10, Rue de la Fidélité,
Paris, in the Republic of France, for the Invention of “AN IMPROVED
FUEL."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Cesar Chanel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th February 1873.
I, CESAR CHANEL, of No. 10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the Republic
of France, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED FUEL," to be as follows, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in agglutinating or agglomerating begass (the
ligneous residuum of sugar cane after extraction of its juicy or saccharine
principle) with resin, coal tar, or pitch, or any like agglutinating and
combustible matter for the manufacture of fuel.
I form a mixture consisting of begass, and agglutinate it with dry..
resin, coal tar, pitch extracted from coal, bitumen, or other analogous

page_text: agglutinating combustible matter in the proportion of twenty to forty-
five per cent. of agglutinating matter, according to the richness required
in the fuel. I then compress it, preferably in the hot state, by machinery,
in the manner usually employed, into bricks or lumps of the required form
and dimensions for use as fuel for furnaces, specially for furnaces used
in the manufacture of cane sugar.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Cesar Chanel in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th August 1873.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CÉSAR
CHANEL, of No. 10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the Republic of France,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in
the thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Cesar Chanel, Her special
licence that I, the said Cesar Chanel, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Cesar Chanel, 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
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “AN IMPROVED FUEL," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Cesar Chanel, my
executors or administrators, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Cesar Chanel, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :—
My Invention consists in agglutinating or agglomerating begass (the
ligneous residuum of sugar cane after extraction of its juicy or saccharine
principle) with resin, coal tar, or pitch, or any like agglutinating and
combustible substance for the manufacture of fuel.
I form a mixture consisting of begass, and agglutinate it with dry
resin, coal tar, pitch extracted from coal, bitumen, or other analogous
agglutinating combustible substance, in the proportion of twenty to
forty-five per cent. of agglutinating substance, according to the richness
required in the fuel. I then compress it, preferably in the hot state by
machinery, in the manner usually employed, into bricks or lumps of the
required form and dimensions, for use as fuel for furnaces, specially for
furnaces used in the manufacture of cane sugar.
In witness whereof, I, the said César Chanel, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.