IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING AND MOULDING SMALL COAL AND OTHER MATTER OR MATERIAL FOR WHICH GREAT PRESSURE IS REQUIRED
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Victor Adolphe Deaubeuf, of Maindy, near
Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING AND
MOULDING SMALL COAL AND OTHER MATTER OR MATERIAL FOR WHICH
GREAT PRESSURE IS REQUIRED."
Sealed the 1st January 1870, and dated the 7th July 1869.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Victor Adolphe Deaubeuf
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 7th July 1869, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, VICTOR
ADOLPHE DEAUBEUP, of Maindy, near Cardiff, in the County of
Glamorgan, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING AND MOULDING SMALL COAL AND
OTHER MATTER OR MATERIAL FOR WHICH GREAT PRESSURE IS REQUIRED," and

page_text: have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have
made solemn Declaration that I am the true and first Inventor
thercof.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Victor Adolphe Deaubeuf, do
hereby declare that the following Complete Specification, under my
hand and seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, in and
by the following statement, that is to say:-
This Invention relates to improved arrangements of mechanism for
compressing small coal into blocks or lumps so as to utilize it for fuel,
and consists in the combination of a steam cylinder with two or more
compressing moulds, the plungers of which moulds are operated by the
action of the steam cylinder (either directly or by the intervention of
gearing, but directly by preference on a lever mounted on a centre, and
alternately working the said plungers and moulds. This compressing
arrangement is applicable also for moulding clay, and for compressing
oil cake, and for similar purposes when great pressure is required.
In order that the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, may be particularly described and
ascertained, I to this Specification append two Sheets of Drawings,
having figures and letters of reference marked thereupon, the like letter
being used to denote a similar or corresponding part in each Figure.
In these Drawings Figure 1 (Sheet I.) is a longitudinal elevation of
the whole apparatus, the moulds herein-tofore alluded to being in
section; Figure 2 (Sheet I.) is a plan of the compressing arrangement;
Figure 8 (Sheet II.) is an end elevation of the steam cylinder and its
gearing and Figure 4 (Sheet II.) is a transverse section of the
compressing arrangement.
The small coal or other matter to be compressed having been placed
in the mould M, steam is admitted at the top of the cylinder C by means
of the cock E and gearing G. In its downward stroke the piston
through the piston rod actuates the lever L, which thereupon forces the
plunger P into the mould M, thereby compressing the matter contained
therein. As the lever L is mounted at its centre on bearings, it will be
obvious, that as the plunger P descends the plunger P' will rise from
the mould M. The plungers P and P' carried on the lever L having

page_text: each a small pinion W whose teeth take into racks on the lever L, so
that the plungers can be moved on the said levers to a distance corre-
sponding with the length of the racks, and can thus be run clear of the
tops of the moulds. Whilst the coal or other matter is being compressed
in the mould M the plunger P¹ is moved along the rack so that the
mould M' can be filled, and the plunger P¹ is next moved back again to
its position for compressing over the mould M¹. The piston of the steam
cylinder having by this time completed its downward stroke, and the
steam admitted to the other end of the cylinder, the end of the lever
carrying the plunger P¹ is depressed, operating the said plunger and
compressing the coal or other matter in the mould M'; whilst this is
being effected the opposite end of lever L is being raised with the
plunger P, which is then run along the rack. The moulded matter in M
is forced up by means of the lever L' raising the moveable mould bottom
picce or scat B'; the moulded block is then removed, the piece or
seat B' lowered again by the lever L', the mould M again filled, the
plunger P brought again to its acting position, and the lever L again
operates it. This compressing action will take place alternately at each
end of the lever L by means of the said lever actuating each in its turn
the plungers P and P¹. The plungers are run along as required to their
proper position, the moulds filled, the compressed block raised by the
levers and removed, all by the hand power of the attendant or attendants
of the apparatus, and the gearing G regulating the admission of the
steam is also operated by hand power. It will be obvious, therefore,
that as the quantity to be compressed and the pressure exerted may be
varied in accordance with the nature of the matter to be operated upon,
that a better result will be arrived at than could be effected by machinery
in which the whole of the operations are performed by automatic action,
when, as a rule, the compressing is effected by a sudden blow.
The compressing arrangement may be driven by means of two
eccentrics, one placed above and one beneath the compressing lever,
the eccentrics being actuated by means of cog wheels and pinions; but
I prefer to use the arrangement herein-before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
I wish it to be distinctly understood that what I claim as of my Inven-
tion is, the peculiar means of compressing slowly or quickly, as may be
desired, by means of the combination of parts and their action, as herein

page_text: in this Specification described and in the accompanying Drawings.
illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Victor Adolphe Deaubeuf, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Second day of July, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.
VICTOR ADOLPHE DEAUBEUF. (L.S.)