AN IMPROVED OR NEW COMBINATION OF MATERIALS AND PROCESSES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FUEL
Year: 1841

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DOMINIC
FRICK ALBERT, of Cadishead, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Doctor of Laws, Manufacturing Chemist, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the First day of
February, in the fourth year of Her reign, did give and grant unto me, the
said Dominic Frick Albert, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, especial license,
full power, sole sole privilege and authority that I, the said Dominic Frick
Albert, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, and every of them, by mysell and
themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, and such
others as I, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, and from time to time and at all times hereafter during the term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England and Wales, the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in all the British Colonies and Plantations
abroad, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED OR NEW COMBINATION OF MATERIALS AND
PROCESSES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FUEL;" in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso, amongst other things, for determining the said Letters Patent
in case I, the said Dominic Frick Albert, should not particularly describo and

page_text: ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and
cause the same to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said 5
Dominic Frick Albert, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to
consist in a combination of the following substances for the purpose of making
a fuel (that is to say) :—
Bituminous schiste, which is a slate or black color cleaving stone of the
nature of both coal and charcoal, containing gas and oil, found in large crusts 10
above most of the coal beds. It is vulgarly called by the colliers a fine bass,
and is not much unlike cannel.
Aluminous clay, being a refuse or the bottoms from the acetate of alumine
in red liquor works.
Ground coal, a sort of refuse at the coal pits, and should be as much 18
as possible free from sulphur.
Vegetable gelatine, refuse of the pyrolignous acid works or wood distilleries,
and is without any general or proper use.
It is an acidulated tar, and mostly
burnt under the distilling cylinders of such works.
Mineral gelatine, refuse from the coal tar distillation, and a pitch of little 2
use on account of its brittleness.
Mineral oil, refuse from naptha distillation, almost without use on account
of its color and smell.
And in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Dominic Frick
Albert, do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention is to be 2
performed, by the following statement of proportions and processes; that
is to say,
Take 5 parts of schiste in a ground state;
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the clay, perfectly dried;
the ground coal;
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mineral tar.
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vegetable tar, evaporated with
The acid in the first neutralizes the alkali of the second, forming acetate of
ammoniac; ammoniac being an alkali which contains no oxigen is an im-
pediment in combustion.
One tenth of a part of mineral oil is mixed up with the aluminous clay.
When the two combined pitches have acquired a proper consistency by heat,
the other ingredients, first mixed together, are thrown into the liquid gelatine,
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page_text: with which they are so worked as to form an homogenous paste, and then: taken
out into a hole cut in the ground near the pan, to form a cake or flag without
the necessity of either a press or a mould.
Mineral gelatine can also be used without the vegetable; but in that case
its ammoniac, together with. the alkali contained in the coal, are combined with
the alumine of the schiste and produce: a sulphate of ammoniac. Boiling. the
mineral. tar with an acidulated water is also a means of freeing it from alkali.
The aluminous clay contains a small quantity of vegetable tar, is rendered
porous by the expulsion of all its water, which places it in a good condition
for the absorbtion of the oil, and being in a state of great division binds the
schiste and coal grains better together. For this clay may be substituted,
according to locality, a fat marl or a common. clay, but free from stones
and sand, and treated in the same way as the aluminous clay.
The aluminous clay may be left out, but then the oil must be mixed with
the finest part of the schiste, first separated by a riddle. In places not in the
proximity of wood distilleries the vegetable pitch may be left out; but in that
case the mineral pitch must be used in the proportion of five instead of two and
a half parts.
Now, whereas I claim as my Invention the new combination of materials
and processes herein-before described for the manufacture of fuel, and such
my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, entirely new, and
never before used in that part of her said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland called England, Her Dominion of Wales, nor Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my Specification of my
said Invention, and that I do verily believe this my said Specification doth
comply, in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise, with the proviso
in the said in part recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore I hereby
claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Dominic Frick Albert, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
DOMINIC FRICK (L.B.) ALBERT, L.L.D.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-
named Dominic Frick Albert, in the

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1841, the aforesaid Dominic Frick Albert came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord One