Improvements in Artificial Fuel.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 15th Oct.,
1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Artificial Fuel.
I, CHARLES WINTER, of 1 Newton Villas, Willoughby Park, Tottenham, in
the County of Middlesex, Coal Merchant, 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 :-
My invention for improvements in artificial fuel, consists of the employment of
decayed or useless vegetables, such as potatoes, cabbages, turnips or any other
kind of refuse vegetable matter that would otherwise be valueless except as
manure, which I render semi fluid or pulpy by boiling or soaking the same in water,
and to the mass thus created, I add, lime, cement, cocoa nut fibre waste, the refuse
tan from tan yards, or any combination of these substances, and coal or coke dust
or coal and coke breeze in or about the proportions hereinafter set forth, and these
when intimately mixed together form a plastic compound which I press into blocks
or cubes, and when set or hard these may be used for domestic or other purposes in
place of, and in the same manner as that of ordinary coal, the object of my said
invention being to provide for the public weal and use a cheap and lasting fuel as a
substitute for coal, and at the same time turn into profitable use what would
otherwise be unsanitary and almost valueless matter.
In carrying my invention into effect, I procure from any source, such as
collecting the refuse of vegetable markets, hotels, restaurants or the like, or from
farmers or dealers, any kind of refuse vegetable matter which I soak or boil in
water until the whole is brought to a pulp, and to two parts or thereabouts of
the mass thus formed I add two parts or thereabouts of cement or lime,
or a mixture of equal quantities or thereabouts, of lime and refuse cocoa-nut
fibre, or lime and the refuse tan from tan yards, or lime and cement, or
cement and refuse fibre, or tan, or any other combination of these materials, in or
about the proportions stated, to which I add fourteen parts or thereabouts of small
coal or coke, or both, or coal or coke dust, or both, or coal dust and coke breeze,
and when these are intimately mixed together a plastic mass results, which I place
in suitable size and shaped moulds and subject to pressure, and the blocks thus
formed I place aside to dry in a similar manner to that in which green bricks are
treated previous to being placed in the kilns, or the said cubes or blocks may if
needed be more rapidly dried and hardened by artificial heat, and are then ready
for use in lieu of ordinary coal, in any and every case where coal is used as fuel.
I find in practice that one ton of the blocks made according to my invention
will give off during combustion an equal amount of heat to that of a ton of the best
household coal, and at about one half the cost, and the blocks may be handled
freely without any stain therefrom being imparted to the hands.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manuer the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
For use as artificial fuel, the employment of any kiud of refuse vegetable matter,
in combination with lime, or cement, and refuse cocoa-nut fibre, or refuse tan, and
coal or coke dust or small coal or dust and coke breeze, in or about the proportions
stated, and pressed into suitably shaped blocks or cubes substantially as herein
described.
ted this 13th day of September 1892.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.