Improvements in the Manufacture of Peat Moss Litter.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Peat Moss Litter.
I, WILLIAM SMITH, of 73, Wellington Road, Dublin, Civil Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows;
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I mix with the peat moss litter sulphuric acid or a sulphate, preferably sulphate
of lime. I do not confine myself to any one method of preparing the peat moss
litter or any particular proportions of sulphuric acid or sulphate, but the method
I prefer is as follows viz. 1 commence by draining the bog and then paring the
surface; I then harrow or rake the surface, and when the material so harrowed
or raked is sufficiently dry, collect it and intimately mix it with the sulphuric
acid or sulphate, and then subject the mixed material to pressure. In thus manu-
facturing peat moss litter it is not necessary that the rakings or harrowings should
be as dry as in the manufacture of peat fuel under "Exters system" neither is is it
desirable to use as great pressure as is necessary for the manufacture of blocks
under that system. The method of pressing I adopt is that of pressing between
rollers and two endless webbs of unequal length passing round pressing and
stretching rolls, the corb passing round the lower roll being the longer, thus
admitting the materials to be fed on the under web, the quantity being regulated
so that the pressed material may be of the desired density. I do not confine myself
to this method of pressing, but it is the most convenient.
After passing through the roller press, the cakes are dried either by the air or
artificial heat, and then made into bales or packed in any other way. Peat moss
litter thus prepared fixes the ammonia as a sulphate, thus effectively purifying
stables, and affording a valuable manure.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Peat Moss Litter.
I, WILLIAM SMITH, of 73, Wellington Road, Dublin, Civil Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
I mix with the peat moss about five per cent. of sulphuric acid or about ten
per cent. of a sulphate preferably sulphate of lime. I do not confine myself to
any one method of preparing the peat moss litter or any particular proportions
of sulphuric acid or sulphate, but the method. I prefer is as follows, viz. I com-
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page_text: mence by draining the bog, and then paring the surface, I then harrow or rake
the surface, and when the materials so harrowed or raked is sufficiently dry, collect
it, and intimately mix it with the sulphuric acid or sulphate, and then subject the
mixed material to pressure. In thus manufacturing peat moss litter it is not neces-
sary that the rakings or harrowings should be as dry, as in the manufacture of peat
fuel under Exters system." The method of pressing I adopt is that of pressing
between rollers and two endless webs of unequal length passing round pressing
and stretching rolls, the corb passing round the lower roll being the longer,
thus admitting the materials to be fed on the under corb, the quantity being regu-
lated by the thickness and density desired.
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I do not confine myself to this method of pressing, but it is the most convenient.
After passing through the rolls, the cakes are dried either by the air or artificial
heat, and then made into bales or packed in any other way.
Peat moss litter thus prepared fixes ammonia as a sulphate, thus affording a
valuable manure and at the same time purifying stables.
Having now particularly described, and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. The mixture of sulphuric acid with peat moss.
2. The mixture of a sulphate with peat moss, substantially as described.
Dated this Fourteenth day of November 1898.