Specification of Henry Huntley Mohun : manufacture of fuel.

  • Mohun, Henry Huntley.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of Henry Huntley Mohun : manufacture of fuel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mohuns Improvements in Manufacturing Fuel. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Henry Huntley Mohun, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:— My Invention consists in combining certain materials into fuel, as will be 5 hereafter described, whereby I am enabled to produce a cheap and highly useful fuel. The materials employed by me are,—first, peat earth, peat turf, peat moss, slimy or other mud or marl, or any other earth which is composed largely of vegetable matter ; secondly, nitre ; thirdly, alum ; fourthly, linseed or other seeds or shelled fruit; fifthly, rosin; sixthly, coke; seventhly, any 10 green vegetable matter; and, eighthly, animal excrement or other animal matter. And in order to give the best information in my power for carrying out the Invention, I will describe a process of combining these materials into a fuel. 15 Description of the Process of Combining and Pressing the Materials into Lumps of Fuel. Take one ton of peat in its raw or charred state; thirty pounds of nitre (the crude nitre does best); fourteen pounds of alum, which has the effect, when properly dissolved and thoroughly amalgamated with the rest, to prevent smoke; 20 fourteen pounds of linseed ; fourteen pounds of rosin or asphaltum or naptha ; one hundred and fifty pounds of coke; one hundred and sixty-eight pounds of green vegetable matter; one hundred and fifty-six pounds of animal excre¬ ments or other animal matter. Note, the quantity of the various materials will depend on the quality of the peat earth, peat turf, peat moss, slimy or 25 other mud, marl, or any other earth which is composed largely of vegetable matter, and the above quantities are given for peat of the best quality. And in order to determine the relative quantities for any particular earth, it will be necessary to weigh out varying quantities, and having mixed, pressed, and dried them, to burn the same, in order to ascertain which mixture 30 produces the description of fire desired. Having thus tested the quantities required by any particular peat earth, peat turf, peat moss, slimy mud, marl, or any other earth composed largely of vegetable matter, the process of mixing may be proceeded with for large quantities. The peat is first to be passed through the mixing mill in a dry state, and the mill employed is an 35 ordinary pug mill, such as is used in brick making. About one third or half ->f the linseed is to be boiled in water, in order to produce a liquid about the consistency of thin glue ; in this the alum is to be dissolved, the remainder of the