Specification of Bondy Azulay and Abraham Solomons : manufacture of charcoal and other fuel.

  • Azulay, Bondy.
Date:
1857
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    Azulay Solomons Improved Manufacture of Charcoal and other Fuel. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said Bondy Azulay and Abraham Solomons, do hereby declare that the nature of our Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, are par¬ ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following description thereof (that is to say):— 5 The first part of our Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of charcoal. It may be premised, that in the manufacture of charcoal as at present carried on, there is always a considerable amount of waste in the state of dust or powder caused by the crumbling and breaking of the charcoal; this waste is not used at present for fuel. By our Invention this waste is 10 converted into fuel, and a fuel more valuable than large charcoal. We take this waste or small charcoal, and if necessary reduce it to a finer powder by any of the ordinary means for pulverization; we then compress this powder by the use of a hydraulic press or other suitable power, in manner well known, such compressing power being now used for the manufacture of mosaic pave- 15 ment. We compress the above powder in moulds until it is reduced from one- fifth to one-eighth of its original bulk. When removed from the mould, the block of fuel will be found to be hard and solid, and which in a given size will contain much more fuel than can be found in the ordinary specimens of charcoal, and for this reason it will be a very useful fuel for steam vessels and 20 locomotive engines, saving room in the bunkers and tenders. The second part of our Invention relates, first, to the manufacture of fuel made of other substances than charcoal, or in combination with charcoal. For this purpose we take small coal (known as slack), breeze, coke, cinders, and pulverize them if necessary in the same manner as before stated; we after- 25 wards compress the powder as before stated, and make blocks of a suitable size. And, secondly, this part of our Invention relates to the manufacture of a fuel adapted for lighting fires, combining a fire-lighter and fuel. For this purpose we take charcoal powder, small coal, coke, cinders, breeze, or all or any of them, and mix them with tar, pitch, resin, or other similar inflammable 30 substance; we then compress the mixture thus formed into moulds, and when taken from the mould the block is dipped in pitch, tar, resin, or other suitable inflammable substance. The block may be covered with sawdust and wrapped in waste paper, by which means each block will readily ignite by applying a lighted match to it, and will burn for any length of time according to the 35 weight of the block. Various sorts of this fuel may be made, of which, how¬ ever, no further description need be given as this fact will be apparent. Having now described our Invention, we wish it to be understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details herein-before named, but on the