Specification of Frederick Neville : manufacture of coke.

  • Neville, Frederick.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of Frederick Neville : manufacture of coke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nevilles Improvements in the Manufacture of Coke. in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Frederick Neville, shall cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention communicated to me, and of the manner in which the same is to be per¬ formed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next immediately after the date of the said in part recited 5 Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Frederick Neville, do hereby declare that the Invention communicated to me consists,— 10 First, in an improved method or process of manufacturing coke by the use of coke ovens, constructed, arranged, and wTorked in the manner herein-after described, whereby the heat evolved in the process of combustion, instead of being wrasted as in ordinary coke ovens, is applied to the distillation from coal of sal ammonia, bitumen gases, and other residuous products of coal, and the 15 said products are collected separately from the coke. And secondly, in the improved coke ovens, herein-after also described, in which the heat of the coke ovens is employed for the purpose of melting and solidifying or caking small coal, with a view' of its being formed into a fuel occupying in quality and character a medium station between coal and coke, 20 and which caked small coal will be found of great utility both for domestic and for manufacturing purposes. And firstly, as to the improved coke ovens, whereby the heat evolved in the process of combustion is employed in the distillation of coal, and the products thereof are collected separately from the coke. The construction, 25 arrangement, and mode of working the same are fully shewn in the Sheet of Drawings marked Number I., hereunto annexed, Figure 1 being a plan of said coke ovens ; Figure 2 a front elevation thereof in the line A, B, of the plan ; Figure 3 a cross section through the line C, D, of the plan ; and Figure 4 a longitudinal section through the line E, F, 30 of the plan. The same letters of reference denote similar parts in all these Figures. G is the interior of the oven into which the coal to be coked is thrown; PI, H, H, H, H, H, are six retorts, similar to those ordinarily used in the manufacture of coal gas, placed in the form of a flat arch, over the oven, and occupying the place of the roof in coke ovens as com- 35 monly constructed. These retorts are supported by their ends resting on the back and front walls of the furnace, as at I and K in Figure 4. The retorts communicate by means of the pipes L, M, with the main N, which conveys