IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Henry Bateman, of Seething Lane, in
the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL."
Sealed the 1st March 1872, and dated the 2nd September 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Henry Bateman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 2nd September 1871.
I, ARTHUR HENRY BATEMAN, of Seething Lane, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "In-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL," to be as follows, that
is to say :-
The Invention consists in the employment of animal blood or albumen
either alone or in combination with lime or other earths or bases for
cementing or agglomerating together small coal or coke, or coal or
coke dust, or an admixture of them, for the manufacture of artificial
fuel.

page_text: It is well known that a combination takes place when albumen and
lime or other earth or base are intimately mixed together, and that the
resulting albuminate possesses strong binding or cementing properties;
and in my Invention advantage has been taken of this property to
produce a solid compact block of fuel of any required form or size at a
very cheap rate, and free from clinkers, and attended with little smoke
in burning. The blocks may be moulded and compressed by any suitable
known method.
Blood alone may be employed as the agglomerating material, but I
prefer using lime or other earth or base with it, as much more coherent:
blocks can thus be made. The quantity of blood necessary for
cementing small coal varies according as the coals are bituminous or
anthracite, and also according to the degree of cohesion required. The
proportion may vary from five per cent. to twenty per cent. of the
quantity of coal employed. The same condition applies to the quantity
of lime or other earths or bases, the proportion varying from two per
cent. to ten per cent. In collecting the blood at the slaughter houses
if deemed necessary the coagulation may be prevented by any of the
well known methods, such as agitation during the collection, or by
adding a small quantity of liquid ammonia.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Arthur Henry Bateman in the Great Seal Patent,
Office on the 2nd March 1872.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
HENRY BATEMAN, of Seething Lane, in the City of London, send 2
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in tho
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, g
give and grant unto me, the said Arthur Henry Bateman, Her special
licence that I, the said Arthur Henry Bateman, my exccutors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Arthur Henry Bateman,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree

page_text: 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Arthur Henry Bateman,
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 Arthur Henry Bateman, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, that is to say :—
The Invention consists in the employment of animal blood or albumen
either alone or in combination with lime or other analogous earths or
bases for cementing together or agglomerating small coal or coke, or
coal or coke dust, or an admixture of them, for the manufacture of
artificial fuel.
It is well known that a combination takes place when albumen and
lime or other analogous earth or base are intimately mixed together,.
and that the resulting albuminate possesses strong binding or cementing
properties. In my Invention advantage has been taken of this property
to produce a solid compact block of fuel of any suitable form or size at
a very cheap rate free from clinkers, and attended with little smoke in
the burning. The blocks may be moulded and compressed by any
suitable and known method.
Blood alone may be employed. as the agglomerating medium, but I
prefer using lime or other analogous earth or base with it, as much more
cohesive blocks can thus be made. The quantity of blood necessary for
cementing small coal varies according as the coals are bituminous or
anthracite, and also according to the degree of cohesion required, the
proportion of blood varying from five per cent. to twenty per cent. of the
quantity of coal employed. The same condition applies to the quantity
of lime or other analogous earths or bases employed, the proportion

page_text: varying from two per cent. to ten per cent. In collecting the blood
at the slaughter house if deemed necessary the coagulation may be
prevented by any of the well known methods, such as agitation during
the collection, or by adding thereto a small quantity of liquid
ammonia.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner
of carrying the same into effect, what I claim is, the employment of
animal blood or albumen either alone or in combination with lime or
other analogous earths or bases for comenting together or agglomerating
small coal or coke, or coal or coke dust, or an admixture of these ]
two latter substances, for the manufacture of artificial fuel, as
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Henry Bateman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Second day of March
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Witness,
W. A. GILBEE,
r.
4, South St., Finsbury.
ARTHUR H. BATEMAN. (L.S.)