Improvements in Setting Inclined Carbonising or Gas Retorts.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification "Left, 28th July, 1891-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Setting Inclined Carbonising or Gas Retorts.
I, LUDOVIC VAN VESTRAUT, of The Green, Southall, in the County of
Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in setting inclined carbonising or gas
retorts.
In setting inclined carbonising or gas retorts where the material is supplied to
the upper end due provision has to be made to guide the material into the retort
from the supply above same.
To do this in a more inexpensive and simpler manner than hitherto proposed, I
take a core or mould of the required section or sections and affix same to upper end
of retort so that it is continuous with the inside of retort, and as the back wall of
setting is being constructed I enclose same with ordinary fire brick work, or fire
clay lumps, or any other suitable material, and build it in, and when the brickwork
or the like is set I remove the said core leaving the connecting channel in site from
the retort to the top of setting.
The mouthpiece and bolts, and if required a metal plate shaped to the retort and
core can be built in the brickwork where the coal or other material falls.
The core can be made of any shape required and of any suitable material, as of
loam for instance or in wedge shape blocks dowelled together so as to be easily
removable after construction.
The object of my invention is to build the inlet as applied to inclined retorts
round a core which can be removed afterwards.
It will be understood that the foregoing instance is given by way of illustration
only and the shapes, materials and proportions of the various parts may be varied
in many ways within the scope of my invention.
Dated this 28th day of October 1890.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Setting Inclined Carbonising or Gas Retorts.
I, LUDOVIC VAN VESTRAUT, of The Green, Southall, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in setting inclined carbonising or gas
retorts.
In setting inclined carbonising or gas retorts where the material is supplied to
the upper end due provision has to be made to guide the material into the retort
from the supply above same.
I attain these objects, by the mechanism, illustrated in the accompanying drawing,
in which
Figure 1 is a plan of the lid or cover;
Fig. 2, a plan of the top of the mould;
Fig. 3, a vertical section of the entire apparatus, the dotted lines denotes the
various parts or portions of the mould or core ;
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Fig. 4, is the top of the sand or loam baked mould or core.

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To do this in a more inexpensive and simpler manner than hitherto proposed,
take a core as shown in Fig. 4, or a mould as shown in Fig. 2, of the required
section or sections and aflix same to upper end of retort c so that it is continuous
with the inside of retort; and as the back wall h h of setting is being constructed
I enclose same with ordinary fire brick work or fire clay lumps, or any other
suitable material and build it in, and when the brickwork or the like is set I remove
the said core d' lm, or mould de, leaving the connecting channel b in site from the
retorte to the top of setting.
The mouthpiece a¹ with a cover or lid a, and bolts g g, and if required a metal
platej shaped to the retort and core fixed to brickwork by bolts or dowels i i, or a
block of the requisite shape and hardness is built in the brickwork h, where the
coal or other material falls. Rails are laid at any convenient part above the
setting to permit a hopper or truck to travel thereon, in order to charge with
material down the shoot b into any retort.
The core can be made of any shape required and of any suitable material m and d¹
being of loam and dried, or wedge shape blocks e dowelled together, so as to be
easily removable after construction. The dotted lines in Fig. 3, gives the blocks
fitted together and marked d d d d and e e.
The object of my invention is to build the inlet as applied to inclined retorts
round a core which can be removed afterwards.
I am aware that such openings have been formed in brickwork in a similar
manner for drains or flues, by means of with or without centering, and I therefore
do not claim such as any part of my invention; but I am not aware that openings
have been formed for charging inclined carbonising or gas retorts in the manner
herein before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The continuous opening with the inside of retort constructed in the brickwork,
by means of a removable mould or core, leaving the connecting channel in site from
the retort to the top of setting, for charging inclined carbonising or gas retorts with
material, substantially as shown, for the purpose specified.
2. The combination of the channel and the metal plate shaped to the retort or
the block k shaped to the retort and setting, substantially as described.
3. The combination, in setting inclined carbonising or gas retorts, of the channel,
between the mouth of retort and the mouthpiece a', and the lid or cover, all
substantially as set forth.
Dated this 28th day of July 1891.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.