AN IMPROVED NON-CONDUCTING COMPO- SITION OR SUBSTANCE APPLICABLE TO BOILERS. CYLINDERS TUBING AND PROALATION FOR PREVENTING THE RADIATION OF HEAT
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ludwig Masche, of Hamburgh, in the Empire of
Germany, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED NON-CONDUCTING COMPO-
SITION OR SUBSTANCE APPLICABLE TO BOILERS. CYLINDERS TUBING AND
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ludwig Masche at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd November 1881.
LUDWIG MASCHE, of Hamburgh, in the Empire of Germany. "AN IMPROVED
NON-CONDUCTING COMPOSITION OR SUBSTANCE APPLICABLE TO BOILERS, CYLINDERS,
TUBING, AND OTHER SIMILAR USES, FOR PREVENTING THE RADIATION OF HEAT."
The Invention relates to an improved non-conducting composition or substance
applicable to boilers, cylinders, tubing, and other similar uses, for preventing the
radiation of heat and for effecting an economy in the consumption of steam, and it
consists in the application and use of infusorial silica, kicselguhr, guhr, or fossil
meal as an isolating medium or coating for boilers, cylinders, tubing, and other
similar uses, for the purposes of diminishing the radiation of heat and of protecting
the same against the action of frost.
In carrying my Invention into effect the infusorial silica, kieselguhr, guhr, or
fossil meal is mixed with clay and with a little horse or cow hair as a binding
substance, and it is adapted to the boiler, cylinder, or tube by putting it on the
outside thereof as a coating either in the form of pulp or in a dry condition.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Ludwig Masche in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st May
1882.
LUDWIG MASCHE, of Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany. "AN IMPROVED
NON-CONDUCTING COMPOSITION OR SUBSTANCE APPLICABLE TO BOILERS, CYLINDERS,
TUBING, AND OTHER SIMILAR USES, FOR PREVENTING THE RADIATION OF HEAT."
This Invention relates to an improved non-conducting composition or substance
applicable to boilers, cylinders, tubing, and other similar uses, for preventing the
radiation of heat and for effecting an economy in the consumption of steam, and it
consists in the application and use of infusorial silica, infusoria, kieselguhr, guhr, or
fossil meal as an isolating medium or coating for boilers, cylinders, tubing, and other
similar uses, for the purposes of diminishing the radiation of heat and of protecting
the same against the action of frost.
In carrying my Invention into effect the infusorial silica, infusoria, kieselguhr,
guhr, or fossil meal is mixed with clay, calcined magnesia, and chlormagnesium
(chloride of magnesium), and with a little horse or cow hair, straw, flour, linseed oil,
and molasses as a binding substance, and-it-is-adapted-to-the-boiler, cylinder, or
tube by putting it on the outside thereof as a coating either in the form of pulp or
in a dry condition.
I do not limit myself to any precise proportions of the herein before mentioned
ingredients, but a composition possessing every advantage I seek to attain results
when the said ingredients, or some of them, are combined in about the following
proportions:-
Of infusorial silica about 90 lbs., of clay about 45 lbs., of cow hair or horse hair or
straw about 15 lbs., of linseed oil and of flour each about 8 lbs., and of molasses
about 5 lbs; or of silica about 90 lbs., of calcined magnesia about 10 lbs., and of
chloride of magnesium about 45 lbs.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical
effect, I would remark in conclusion that I claim as the Invention secured to me
by the herein before in part recited Letters Patent,-
The composition of a non-conducting substance (applicable to boilers, cylinders,
tubing, and other similar uses, for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned) from the
bereiubefore mentioned ingredients, and preferably in about the herein before
mentioned proportions, the substance thus compounded being adapted to its intended
use, as herein before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ludwig Masche, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this 16th day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
bundred and eighty two.
LUDWIG MASCHE. (L.S.)