An Improved Method of Preparing Peat and Peat Briquettes for Fire Lighting, Heating, and analogous purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Preparing Peat and Peat Briquettes for Fire
Lighting, Heating, and analogous purposes.
I, WILLIAM SMITH Juor., of Goole Grange, Goole, Moss Litter Manufacturer,
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 :-
In carrying out my invention I proceed in or in about the following manner.
For fire-lighters which can also be used for heating purposes I take dry or partly
dry peat and cut or form it into suitably sized pieces, which I impregnate by
dipping for a short time in a bath containing (a) mineral, vegetable, or animal oils,
fats, resinous substances, pine or gas tar, naphtha, creosote, spirit or other like
substances either separatoly or combined in any convenient proportions.
I afterwards coat them by dipping them in a bath containing (b) resin, bitumen,
pitch, wax, fats, or other like substances, separately or combined in any convenient
proportions, and rendered liquid by the application of heat. The last mentioned.
dipping will form a suitable coating and prevent the evaporation of the spirit or
the like, and thus enable the fire-lighters to be kept for any length of time without
deterioration. As an example of one method of carrying into effect this part of my
invention which relates to fire-lighters or the like I may mention that I allow: the
pieces of peat to remain two or three seconds in a mixture of two parts creosote
oil, and one part of petroleum, afterwards coating them by dipping for about five
to ten seconds in a bath of melted resin.
For briquettes, I disintegrate the dry or partly dry peat and then mix it with
mineral, vegetable, or animal oils, fats, resinous substances, naphtha, spirit,
creosote, pine or gas tar, bitumen, lime, pitch, wax, coal, coke, ashes, sawdust, or
fireclay, used separately or combined in any convenient proportions, and after
having pressed it into briquettes, I dip them in a bath consisting of, or containing
resin, bitumen, pitch, wax, fats, or other like substances, separately or combined in
any convenient proportions. As an example of one method of carrying into effect
this part of my invention which relates to briquettes, I may mention that I mix
with every seven pounds of peat 10 (ten) ounces of a mixture of 4 (four) parts
creosote, and one part of petroleum, and after forming and pressing the peat into
the required briquettes, they are afterwards dipped for about ten seconds, in a bath
of pitch.
I do not confine myself to the precise number or proportion of ingredients
employed in carrying out my invention, as any or all of them may be varied
without departing from the spirit of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I

page_text: 2. In the preparation of peat for the purposes set forth in the title coating the
blocks or pieces of peat with a protective, so as to prevent the evaporation of any
inflammable substance mixed with the peat in the earlier part of the
manufacture, substantially as described in the above Specification.
Dated this 13th day of November 1895.
process of
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23-Coleman Street, London, E:C., Agents for the Applicant.