IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Francis Morant, of Frenchay, in the
County of Gloucester, Major in the Cape Mounted Regiment of
Riflemen, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL."
Sealed the 23rd March 1869, and dated the 26th September 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Francis Morant
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 26th September 1868.
I, GEORGE FRANCIS MORANT, of Frenchay, in the County of Glou-
cester, Major in the Cape Mounted Regiment of Riflemen, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
artificial fuel.
In the distillation of coal tar after the more volatile matters have
been drawn over a product is obtained known as dead oil or creosote. It
is of small commercial value.

page_text: According to my Invention I produce an artificial fuel by saturating
peat or turf with dead oil or creosote. By preference, after thoroughly
drying the peat I exhaust the air therefrom and then admit to the vessel
containing it the dead oil or creosote.
In place of peat or turf a mixture of earth and vegetable matter may
be employed,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Francis Morant in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 25th March 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
FRANOIS MORANT, of Frenchay, in the County of Gloucester, Major in
the Cape Mounted Regiment of Riflemen, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in
the thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said George Francis Morant,
Her special licence that I, the said George Francis Morant, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
George Francis Morant, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Francis
Morant, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 George Francis Morant, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
artificial fuel.
In the distillation of coal tar after the more volatile matters have
been drawn over a product is obtained known as dead oil or creosote. It
is of small commercial value.
According to my Invention I produce an artificial fuel by saturating
peat or turf with dead oil or creosote. By preference, after thoroughly
drying the peat I exhaust the air therefrom and then admit to the vessel
containing it the dead oil or creosote. When the peat is thoroughly
saturated it may advantageously be pressed into blocks by machinery,
such as is used in the manufacture of artificial fuel, or it may be cut up
into pieces of any required size and shape.
Different proportions of peat and dead oil or creosote may be used, but
I prefer to make the peat absorb about one-tenth of its own weight of
the dead oil or creosote.
Instead of peat or turf a mixture of earth and vegetable matter may
be employed.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the way of
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I
claim is, the combining together of peat, turf, or a mixture of earth
and vegetable matter with dead oil or creosote so as to form an artificial
fuel.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Francis Morant, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of March,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.
CHARLES MACDONALD.
GEO. BLACK,
GEORGE FRANCIS MORANT. (L.S.)