An Improved Fuel.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Nov., 1893-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fuel.
We DAVID WILLIAM NIGHTINGALE of 76 Peckham Rye, in the County of
Surrey, Musician and SARAH GARTH WICKING of 190 Walworth Road, in the
County of Surrey, Pianoforte Dealer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention for an improved fuel has for its object to utilize waste or refuse
materials such as, the daily dust and rubbish collected by the vestrys, old fibrous
or textile fabrics, and other waste substances and combining them with other
suitable constituents to produce a substitute for coal; and consists in first reducing
it to a pulp after which it is immersed in, or thoroughly incorporated with a
mixture consisting of parafin, pitch, resin, tar, and any other kind of oil, fat, or
hydrocarbon matter and lime and whitening if required.
The resultant substance is then formed into balls or blocks by hand or machinery,
or pressed into moulds by hydraulic or other pressure; or the pulped material is
first made into balls or blocks and afterwards dipped in the aforesaid preparation
or mixture.
Dated this 20th day of April 1893.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fuel.
We, DAVID WILLIAM NIGHTINGALE, of 76 Peckham Rye, in the County of
Surrey, Musician, and SARAH GARTH WICKING, of 190 Walworth Road, in the
County of Surrey, Pianoforte Dealer, 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 for an improved fuel has for its object to utilize all kinds of waste
or refuse materials such for example, as old fibrous or textile fabrics and other
waste substances by combining them with other suitable constituents to produce a
substitute for coal and consists in first reducing the said materials to a pulp and
afterwards immersing it in, or thoroughly incorporating it with a mixture consisting
of paraffin, pitch, resin, tar, and any other kind of oil or hydrocarbon matter.
;
The resultant substance is then formed into balls or blocks by hand or machinery,
or pressed into moulds by hydraulic or other pressure, or the pulped material is
first made into balls or blocks and afterwards dipped in the aforesaid preparation
or mixture.
We append two mixtures with the proportions of the various constituents which
we have found most successful in practice, namely:-

page_text: The precipitated pitch is particularly well adapted for amalgamation with
granular or earthy substances such as cinders, ashes, clay, sand, dust coal and the
like, in the following proportions approximately, viz. :-
Waste material
1 part by weight.
10 parts by weight.
For the tar in formulæ 1 oil or other fat may be substituted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
An improved fuel comprising refuse or waste materials mixed with petroleum
and oil or other fatty matters, gas tar, dust coal or pitch substantially in the
manner and proportions described.
Dated this 2nd day of November 1893.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.