Specification of Michael Linning : converting peat into fuel, and obtaining tar, gas, &c.

  • Linning, M. (Michael)
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of Michael Linning : converting peat into fuel, and obtaining tar, gas, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pinning & Improved Method of Converting Peat into Fuel, <§rc. referred to of making tar gas for illumination, and ammoniacal gas, are not any of them new in themselves. And whereas the processes of coking peat prepared for fuel in the ordinary way, and the processes of obtaining gas and other substances from it, have been practised, or are or may be known to chemists, I wish it to be clearly understood that I make no claim of 5 Invention to the said apparatus or processes as such, nor do I in particular claim generally to discover how to obtain from peat the substances tar, gas, oil, ammonia, varnish, and spirit obtainable from it; all I claim as my Invention, in so far as regards these particular substances, is their appli¬ cation to useful and practical purposes. But I wish it to be clearly understood 10 that I specially, primarily, and exclusively claim as my Invention the par¬ ticular method of operating which I have described, and of preparing, working, milling, and drying peat moss, peat turf or bog, so as to produce great and total change upon its qualities and properties, whereby I am enabled to convert said peat moss, peat turf or bog, into an highly useful and 15 extremely valuable fuel, assimilating it in some degree to coal, and rendering it subservient to various public and profitable purposes. And I moreover i claim as my discovery or Invention, that the coke, the residuum of said fuel, may, by being ground either in water or oil, be employed as a pigment and used as a substitute either for ivory black or blackening, and for several other 20 purposes, and that the ashes obtained from said fuel may by the simple process of boiling in pure water, and by being freed from all impurities, and by being in like manner ground in water or oil, be employed as a pigment and used as a substitute either for Roman ochre or English umber. The con¬ version, then, of peat moss, peat turf or bog, into a fuel equal to coal 25 % for some, and superior to it for several purposes, by the particular method of operating which I have described, and the extraction of the two several pigments I have specified, are the inventions and discoveries which I espe¬ cially claim, and which constitute the foundation principles and elements of the Patent which I have obtained, conferring upon me the exclusive right, 30 privilege, and benefit of the same, and under and in virtue of which I claim protection accordingly in principle and in practice, whatever may be the modes, devices, or means which others may contrive or resort to in order to effectuate the same purposes and obtain the same or similar results. And such my Invention being to the best of my knowledge and belief entirely new, 35 and never before used within that part of Her Majesty’s United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irelend called England, Her said dominions of Wales, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, nor within any of Her Majesty’s Colonies or