IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF COKE AND PEAT
Year: 1884

page_text: I RICHARD SMITH CASSON of Brierley Hill in the County of Stafford Iron
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE TREATMENT OF COKE AND PEAT to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the treatment of the ordinary coke such as obtained
from Gasworks or to peat or similar combustible substances which burn, but do
not give off any considerable amount of flame and hence in their ordinary state are
not suitable for use for the rapid generation of steam or for puddling or other
furnaces or heaters. The object of my invention is to remedy the disadvantages
above set forth and this I do by soaking or otherwise thoroughly impregnating the
coke or peat with petroleum or other oils or fatty or resinous substances By
rough experiment I have found that after about 5 cwt. of coke had been saturated
with about 13 quarts of good petroleum it gave off a clear and good flame, for the
treatment of iron by the ordinary puddling furnace process but for such uses I
should prefer to apply a steam or other blast beneath the grate bars I do not
confine myself to the above mentioned proportions for from my experiments I
judge that it will not be necessary to use the refined petroleum or other oils, or fatty
or resinous substances of an expensive nature, but that on the contrary
"crude
material or " residuums which give a hydro-carbon flame may be used with
almost equal advantage as all that is necessary is to add sufficient of the chosen
substance to promote the rapid combustion of the carbon of the coke or peat, and
thereby produce a comparatively clear flame of a more or less lasting nature
depending upon the amount of oil, fatty or resinous substance that has been
employed.
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page_text: I RICHARD SMITH CASSON of Brierley Hill in the County of Stafford Iron
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF COKE AND PEAT" and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This Invention relates to the treatment of the ordinary coke such as obtained
from Gasworks, or to peat or similar combustible substances which burn, but do
not give off any considerable amount of flame, and hence in their ordinary state
are not suitable for use for the rapid generation of steam, or for puddling or other
furnaces or heaters.
The object of my invention is to remedy the disadvantages above set forth, and
this I do by soaking or otherwise thoroughly impregnating the coke or peat with
petroleum or other oils or fatty or resinous substances. By rough experiment
I have found that after about 5 cwt of coke had been saturated with about
13 quarts of good petroleum, it gave off a clear and good flame, for the treatment
of iron by the ordinary puddling furnace process, but for such uses I should prefer
to apply a steam or other blast beneath the grate bars I do not confine myself to
the above mentioned proportions for from my experiments I judge that it will not
be necessary to use the refined petroleum or other oils or fatty or resinous
"material or
substances of an expensive nature, but that on the contrary "crude
"residuums" which give a hydro carbon flame may be used with almost equal
advantage as all that is necessary is to add sufficient of the chosen substance to
promote the rapid combustion of the carbon of the coke or peat, and thereby
produce a comparatively clear flame of a more or less lasting nature depending
upon the amount of oil, fatty or resinous substance that has been employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained, the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
The improvement in the treatment of coke or peat which consists in saturating
or impregnating the same, with hydro-carbon oils or fatty or resinous substances
substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this Sirth day of October 1884
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
Applicant's Agent.