An Improved Composition for Preventing Incrustation in Steam Boilers.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 11th May, 1898
Complete Specification Left. 2nd Feb.. 1899 Accepted. 29th Apr.. 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition for Preventing Incrustation in Steam
Boilers.
I, LEWIS LEWIS, of Pontywain, near Newport, Monmouthshire, ex-Post Master,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved composition for preventing incrustation.
in steam boilers which is manufactured from vegetable matter and contains no
soda or injurious chemicals of any kind.
By its use corrosion in boilers is prevented, and a regular application of the
composition will in time remove incrustation of old standing. It is passed into
the boiler by means of the usual feed pump or injector and will cleanse all pipes
and valves through which it may pass. It will prevent priming and will pre-
cipitate all sediment to the bottom of the boiler from whence it is easily dis-
charged from time to time through the blow off cock. By preventing incrustation
the use of this composition dispenses with the necessity, previously existing, of
using chipping hammers in the process of cleaning out the boiler; as after with-
drawing any dirt found therein all that is required is a hose to wash the boiler
out.
The composition, in accordance with this invention, is made from the following
ingredients, viz.: cider muss, oak bark, and mountain block peat burnt to
ashes. Their proportions & the manner of mixing or blending will hereinafter
be described.
Cider muss is the refuse obtained after the cider is pressed out in the cider
mill. The muss is then dry and may be stored conveniently in large tubs
damped with water and pressed. hard in. Covered over with water it will keep
any length of time, and be stronger and will not ferment so much as the fresh
muss. For use I take the muss, slightly moistened with water, and grind it
in a mortar mill to a very fine pulp.
The muss forms the acid portion of my improved composition.
The oakbark I employ is such as is used in tanneries, and this I cut into
small pieces, and to, say, 1 cwt. of oak bark pieces I add 1 cwt. of the peat
ashes and mix together in a tank or other suitable receptacle. To this mixture
I put 60 gallons of pure spring water and a strong lye is made which forms the
tanning portion of my improved composition.
The lye and the moss pulp are then mixed in equal parts and stirred well
together and left to ferment and blend for a few days.
The composition so produced may be mixed with water and kept in a tank
and be injected into the boiler as required, when it will dissolve the crusted
particles in the water, and thus prevent them adhering to the heated surface of
the boiler.
Dated this 11th day of May 1898.
GEO. COXHEAD,
For the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition for Preventing Incrustation in Steam
Boilers.
I, LEWIS LEWIS, of Pontywain, near Newport, Monmouthshire, ex-Post Master,
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:-
This invention relates to an improved composition for preventing incrustation
in steam boilers which is manufactured from vegetable matter and contains no
soda or injurious chemicals of any kind.
By its use corrosion in boilers is prevented, and a regular application of the
composition will in time remove incrustation of old standing. It is passed into
the boiler by means of the usual feed pump or injector and will cleanse all pipes
and valves through which it may pass. It will prevent priming and will pre-
cipitate all sediment to the bottom of the boiler from whence it is easily dis-
charged from time to time through the blow off cock. By, preventing incrustation
the use of this composition dispenses with the necessity, previously existing, of
using chipping hammers in the process of cleaning out the boiler as after with-
drawing any dirt found therein all that is required is a hose to wash the boiler
out.
The composition, in accordance with this invention, is made from the following
ingredients, viz.; cider muss, oak bark, and mountain block peat burnt to
ashes. Their proportions and the manner of mixing or blending will hereinafter
be described.
Cider muss is the refuse obtained after the cider is pressed out in the cider
mill. The muss is then dry and may be stored conveniently in large tubs
damped with water and pressed hard in. Covered over with water it will keep
any length of time, and be stronger and will not ferment so much as the fresh
muss. For use I take the muss, slightly moistened with water, and grind it
in a mortar mill to a very fine pulp.
The muss forms the acid portion of my improved composition.
The oak bark I employ is such as is used in tanneries, and this I cut into
small pieces, and to, say, 1 cwt. of oak bark pieces I add 1 cwt. of peat
ashes and mix together in a tank or other suitable receptacle. To this mixture
I put 60 gallons of pure spring water and a strong lye is made which forms the
tanning portion of my improved composition.
The lye and the muss pulp are then mixed in equal parts and stirred well
together and left to ferment and blend for a few days.
The composition so produced may be mixed with water and kept in a tank
and be injected into the boiler as required, when it will dissolve the crusted
particles in the water, and thus prevent them adhering to the heated surface of
the boiler.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1-A boiler composition consisting cider apple muss oak bark, and mountain
block peat ash, ground or pulped and added together, the ingredients used in
the above proportions herein stated.

page_text: 2-A boiler composition consisting cider apple muss, and a lye of oak-bark, and
block peat ash mixed substantially as and for the purpose herein stated.
3-The improved boiler composition herein before described.
Dated this 2nd day of February 1899