IMPROVEMENTS IN FUEL PRESSES
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Newall Moore, of Neath, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FUEL PRESSES." A communication from abroad by
Simeon Oustalet, of Paris,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Newall Moore at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd June 1880.
JOHN NEWALL MOORE, of Neath. "IMPROVEMENTS IN FUEL PRESSES"
[A communication from abroad by Simeon Oustalet, of Paris.]
The machine is composed of a cast iron standard, cast hollow, having plummer
blocks cast in one. These latter carry the brasses for an horizontal shaft, one end
of which shaft is threaded and fitted with locking nuts, and a bush which works in
one end of the rod for throwing the press in and out of gear.
On this same shaft are fixed two flat discs with faces turned up true; on the other
end of the shaft the driving pulley is fixed between the discs above mentioned.
There is another wheel or disc fixed to a vertical screw, this being leathered on the
periphery so as to cause a greater friction on the two discs on the horizontal shaft,
these being fixed about half an inch further apart than the diameter of the screw
disc over the leather. Motion is then given to the screw by the discs on the
horizontal shaft being forced by a hand lever against the periphery of the one on
the screw; one of course turning the screw in one direction, and when the lever is
reversed the other disc turns it in the contrary direction, and thus the blocks are
pressed on the downward stroke, and are lifted out of the dies on the upward
movement.
On the lower end of the screw above mentioned (which works in a brass nut in
the standard) is secured the hammer or head, the point of the screw running in a
hollow bored for it, with a collar working in a groove. The head is guided in the
standard by planed ways. On the head is fixed the pressers, made of hammered
iron and lined with steel plates; these pressers have holes bored in them
corresponding with the perforations in the pressed cake or brick of fuel. The dies
are also made of hammered iron with loose plates (perforated) fitted in them.
These dies, and also the head, are made in three sections, each section making three
bricks, there being thereby nine bricks made at each stroke of the head.
The bricks are brought up from the mould with the dies, which have about nine
studs in each for piercing the bricks, and when brought up, by the vertical shaft
being reversed, the plates which fasten the piercing studs come in contact with a
top plate which presses on the dies and causes the brick to be released from them,
when they are received on trays and carried away.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Newall Moore in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th December 1880.
JOHN NEWALL MOORE, of Neath.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FUEL PRESSES."
A communication from abroad by Simeon Oustalet, of Paris.
The machine is composed of a cast iron standard A, cast solid, having plummor
blocks cast in one. These latter carry the brasses A¹ for an horizontal shaft, one
end of which shaft is threaded and fitted with locking nuts, and a bush which
works in one end of the rod for throwing the press in and out of gear.
On this same shaft are fixed two flat discs B with faces turned up true; on the
other end of the shaft the driving pulley is fixed outside the discs above mentioned.
Thero is another wheel or disc B fixed to a vertical scrow, this being leathered on
the periphery so as to cause a greater friction on the two discs on the horizontal
shaft, these being fixed about half an inch further apart than the diameter of the
screw disc over the leather. Motion is then given to the screw O by the discs on the
horizontal shaft being forced by a hand lever against the periphery of the one on
the screw; one of course turning the screw in one direction, and when the lever is
reversed the other disc turns it in the contrary direction, and thus the blocks are
pressed on the downward stroke and are lifted out of the dies on the upward
movement.
On the lower end of the screw above mentioned (which works in a brass nut in
the standard) is secured the hammer or hend C', the point of the screw running
in a hollow bored for it, with a collar working in a groove. The head is guided
in the standard by planed ways. On the head is fixed the dies or pressers D, made
of hammered iron and lined with steel plates; these dies or-pressers have steel
studs which make the perforations in the pressed cake or brick D¹ of fuel. The
bottom dies are also made of hammered iron with loose plates (perforated) fitted in
them. These bottom dies, and also the head, are made in three sections, each section'
making three bricks, there being thereby nine bricks made at each stroke of the head.
The bricks are brought up from the mould with the dies or pressers, and when
brought up, by the vertical sliaft being reversed, the plates which fasten the piercing
studs.come in contact with a top plato which presses on the dies and causes the
brick to be released from them, when they are received on trays and carried away.
Having thus described and particularly ascertained the nature of the Invention,
and the manner in which the same is or may be executed and applied, I wish to
add that I do not intend to restrict or restrain myself to the precise details of the
Invention here above described, as many variations may be made therefrom
without departing from the principle or main features of the Invention, but what I
consider to be new and original are the parts lettered A, B, C, D, and D', and
therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein before in part recited
Letters Patent, substantially as herein described and illustrated, or any mere
variations or modification thereof.
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In witness whereof, I, the said John Newall Moore, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and oighty.
Signed, scaled, and delivered by the
said John Newall Moore, in the
presence of
ERNEST GRANT,
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Shorthand Writer,
Neath.
JOHN. NEWALL MOORE. (LS)