CONVERTING SMALL COAL OR COAL DUST, OR SMALL COAL AND COKE, INTO SOLID BLOCKS OF FUEL
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Dawson, of No. 14, Barries Place, Mile End
Road, in the Parish of Stepney, in the County of Middlesex, for the
Invention of "CONVERTING SMALL COAL OR COAL DUST, OR SMALL COAL AND
COKE, INTO SOLID BLOCKS OF FUEL."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Dawson at the.
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
January 1854.
I, ALFRED DAWSON, of 14, Barnes Place, Mile End, in Parish of Stepney,
in Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CON-
VERTING SMALL COALS, OR COAL AND COKE, OR COAL DUST, INTO SOLID BLOCKS OF
FUEL," to be as follows:-
I take small coal or coal dust, or a mixture of coals and coke, and admix
a portion of water with the coal or coals and coke. The coal and water, or
the admixture of coals, coke, and water, are placed in an iron mould, made
air-tight or nearly so. This mould is placed in a chamber or furnace, heated
to a temperature of from 300° to 700° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, for a
time and temperature varying according to the quality of the fuel under
operation; while submitted to this operation, the desired consistency having

page_text: taken place, the requisite temperature for which the operator will ascertain
and cause to be indicated by a pyrometer or thermometer, when the mould
is then submitted to a pressure, and the block of fuel is removed from the
same fit for usc.
Therefor what I claim as my Invention is, the admixture of coal and water,
or coal, coke, and water, and confining the same in iron moulds that are air-
tight or nearly so, and exposing the same to heat and pressure, whereby the
water unites with the coal, or coals and coke, which compound, when in a
softened state, is submitted to pressure, and becomes a compact mass of fuel.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and
of the aforesaid Order, filed by the said Alfred Dawson in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 29th December 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
DAWSON, of 14, Barnes Place, Mile End Road, in the Parish of Stepney, in
the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Alfred Dawson, Her special licence that I, the said Alfred Dawson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred
Dawson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
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 "CONVERTING SMALL COAL OR COAL
DUST, OR SMALL COAL AND COKE, INTO SOLID BLOCKS OF FUEL," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Dawson, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, 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 Alfred Dawson, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,

page_text: to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment, that is to say:
I take small coal or coal dust, or a mixture of coals and coke, and admix a
portion of water with the coal or coals and coke. The coal and water, or
admixture of coals, coke, and water, are placed in an iron mould, made air-
tight or nearly so. This mould is placed in a chamber or furnace, heated to a
temperature of from 300° to 700° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, for a time, the
time and temperature varying according to the quality of the fuel under opera-
tion; while submitted to this operation, the desired consistency having taken
place, the requisite temperature for which the operator will ascertain and cause
to be indicated by a pyrometer or thermometer, when the mould is then sub-
mitted to a pressure, and the block of fuel is removed from the same fit for use.
Therefore what I claim as my Invention is, the admixture of coal and
water, or coals, coke, and water, and confining the same in iron moulds that
are air-tight or nearly so, and exposing the same to heat and pressure, whereby
the water unites with the coal, or coal and coke, which compound, when in a
softened state, is submitted to a pressure, and becomes a compact mass of fucl.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Dawson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
ALFRED DAWSON.
(L.S.)

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Dawson, of No. 14, Barnes Place, Mile End
Road, in the Parish of Stepney, in the County of Middlesex, for the
Invention of "CONVERTING SHALL COAL OR COAL DUST, OR SHALL COAL AND
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Dawson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
January 1854.
I, ALFRED DAWSON, of 14, Barnes Place, Mile End, in Parish of Stepney,
in Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Con-
VERTING SMALL COALS, OR COAL AND COKE, OR COAL DUST, INTO SOLID BLOCKS OF
FUEL," to be as follows:-
I take small coal or coal dust, or a mixture of coals and coke, and admix
a portion of water with the coal or coals and coke. The coal and water, or
the admixture of coals, coke, and water, are placed in an iron mould, made
air-tight or nearly so. This mould is placed in a chamber or furnace, heated
to a temperature of from 300° to 700° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, for a
time and temperature varying according to the quality of the fuel under
operation; while submitted to this operation, the desired consistency having

page_text: taken place, the requisite temperature for which the operator will ascertain
and cause to be indicated by a pyrometer or thermometer, when the mould
is then submitted to a pressure, and the block of fuel is removed from the
same fit for usc.
Therefor what I claim as my Invention is, the admixture of coal and water,
or coal, coke, and water, and confining the same in iron moulds that are air-
tight or nearly so, and exposing the same to heat and pressure, whereby the
water unites with the coal, or coals and coke, which compound, when in a
softened state, is submitted to pressure, and becomes a compact mass of fuel.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and
of the aforesaid Order, filed by the said Alfred Dawson in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 29th December 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
DAWSON, of 14, Barnes Place, Mile End Road, in the Parish of Stepney, in
the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Alfred Dawson, Her special licence that I, the said Alfred Dawson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred
Dawson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
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 "CONVERTING SMALL COAL OR COAL
DUST, OR SMALL COAL AND COKE, INTO SOLID BLOCKS OF FUEL," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Dawson, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to bo
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 Alfred Dawson, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,

page_text: to ho particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment, that is to say :-
I take small coal or coal dust, or a mixture of coals and coke, and admix a
portion of water with the coal or coals and coke. The coal and water, or
admixture of coals, coke, and water, are placed in an iron mould, mado air-
tight or nearly so. This mould is placed in a chamber or furnace, heated to a
temperature of from 300° to 700° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, for a time, the
time and temperature varying according to the quality of the fuel under opera-
tion; while submitted to this operation, the desired consistency having taken
place, the requisite temperature for which the operator will ascertain and cause
to be indicated by a pyrometer or thermometer, when the mould is then sub-
mitted to a pressure, and the block of fuel is removed from the same fit for use.
Therefore what I claim as my Invention is, the admixture of coal and
water, or coals, coke, and water, and confining the same in iron moulds that
are air-tight or nearly so, and exposing the same to heat and pressure, whereby
the water unites with the coal, or coal and coke, which compound, when in a
softened state, is submitted to a pressure, and becomes a compact mass of fuel.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Dawson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, tbis Twenty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
ALFRED DAWSON. (L.S.)