IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FUEL
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FERDINAND
CHARLES WARLICH, of Deptford,. in the County of Kent, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventh day of April,
in the ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Ferdinand Charles Warlich, my exors, admors,
and assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
I, the said Ferdinand Charles Warlich, my exors, adñors, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Ferdinand Charles Warlich, my exors, adññors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others; from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, and in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Man,
and in all Her Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FUEL;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Ferdinand Charles Warlich,
shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said

page_text: Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Ferdinand Charles Warlich, do hereby declare that the nature of Inven-
my
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is
to say:-
My Invention conststs of subjecting manufactured fuel to the process of
coking, by which I am enabled to obtain coke in regular shapes and more con-
venient for stowage. And in order that my Invention may be most fully
understood and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means
pursued by me.
The description of manufactured fuel which I prefer to use in carrying
out my Invention is that which is composed of the small of anthracite coal,
of free burning coal, and of bituminous coal, mixed together with pitch or
bituminous matter, and moulded into bricks or rectangular forms; but such
composition of manufactured fuel in itself is not new, nor do I claim the
same, nor confine myself thereto, as other manufactured and moulded fuel
consisting of coal may be treated according to my Invention. And in carrying
out my Invention I subject the moulded fuel composed of the small anthracite
coal, of free burning coal, and of bituminous coal, mixed together with pitch or
bituminous matter, to heat in oven or retorts in such manner as to drive off
the volatile products therefrom, as described in the Specification of my former
'Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifth day of October, One thousand
eight hundred and forty-three, and I then cause the bricks or moulded blocks
of fuel to be coked in the same way as coke has heretofore been coked. For
this purpose I prefer to use coke ovens of a square form with flat roofs, as the
moulded fuel will pack better therein, and with less loss of space than in an
ordinary coking oven. And in packing the moulded bricks or blocks of ma-
nufactured fuel into the coking oven, I place the moulded bricks or blocks one
on the other, leaving only a small space between the sides of the bricks or
blocks. The fuel is then lighted, and the coking is conducted in the ordinary
With care, the workman will be enable to obtain blocks or bricks of
coke of the manufactured fuel, and the same will be found a valuable fuel
offering great advantage in stowage.
manner.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the best manner of
performing the same, I would wish it to be understood that I make no claim

page_text: to moulding bricks or blocks of manufactured fuel, nor do I claim the coking
of coal, whether one or more descriptions of coal is or are used at the same time
when that process is being performed; but what I claim is, the subjecting of
moulded manufactured fuel to the process of coking.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ferdinand Charles Warlich, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of October, in the year
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-six.