US1615463A - Artificial fuel and method of making same - Google Patents

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US1615463A
US1615463A US137815A US13781526A US1615463A US 1615463 A US1615463 A US 1615463A US 137815 A US137815 A US 137815A US 13781526 A US13781526 A US 13781526A US 1615463 A US1615463 A US 1615463A
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    • C10—PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
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  • MICHAEL F MAGINNIS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.
  • My invention relates to an artificial fuel and method of making the same.
  • the object of the invention is to provide an improved method of forming fuel, such as briquettes or ribbon form, and a further object is to provide a fuel of a composition which will quickly harden Without baking; which will not absorb moisture or be in any Way affected by climatic or atmospheric conditions, and which will be practically smokeless ⁇ vhile burning and Which will be literally entirely consumed and leave but a small percentage of ash or residue.
  • the invention consists of the combination of the various ingredients hereinafter set forth and claimed and in the methodof combining the same.
  • coal dust or culm and coke breeze are first heated to about 280 to 300 and thoroughly mixed in a suitable mixer and then I add thereto the mixture of starch, glue and. Water and the Whole is heated and mixed for about one and one-half minutes. After this the alum is dissolved in about 6 or 7 gallons of hot Water and this hot alum solution is added to the mixture of coal dust, coke breeze, starch and glue, with which it cht-nnically unites. The resultant compound will be practically Waterproof after it has been mixed for about one and a half minutes.
  • the mass After being thus .i'nixed and heated the mass is ready for use and may be molded in the form of briquettes. and in ribbon form, if desired. A run on a conveyor about two hundred feet in length will render the product hard enough to be put in coal pool:- ets, cars or carts for immediate use, if desired.
  • the product requires no baking, for the reason that the in redients employed with the carbonaceous mixture form a perfect binder, thus obviating the time, labor and cost of baking; this being due to the small percentage of moisture remaining in the finished product.
  • a briquette formed from the above described mass will burn readily Without disintegrating orclinkering and emits little or no smoke and may be handled roughly Without breaking.
  • the coke breeze being cellular, and mixed with bituminous coal dust, Will, when being consumed, act as a filter for the volatile gases, and acts to divide the gases produced by combustion and so prevent disintegration oi the briquette or the like.
  • porous nature of the coke renders the action of the binder more certain so that the briquette will burn as Well as lump anthracite.
  • This product is intended to take the place of anthracite coal, since it burns equally as well.
  • a composition for artificial fuel formed of bituminous coal cuhn or dust, coke breeze, starch, glue and alum mixed and treated in substantially the manner and proportions set forth.

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Patented Jan. 25, 1927.
MICHAEL F. MAGINNIS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.
ARTIFICIAL FUEL AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME. v
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My invention relates to an artificial fuel and method of making the same.
The object of the invention is to provide an improved method of forming fuel, such as briquettes or ribbon form, and a further object is to provide a fuel of a composition which will quickly harden Without baking; which will not absorb moisture or be in any Way affected by climatic or atmospheric conditions, and which will be practically smokeless \vhile burning and Which will be literally entirely consumed and leave but a small percentage of ash or residue.
The invention consists of the combination of the various ingredients hereinafter set forth and claimed and in the methodof combining the same.
In producing a fuel briquette I take 1 thousand pounds of bituminous coal culm or dust and from 600 to 1,000 pounds of coxe breeze in fine granular form (or these may be part powdered to give a smooth appearance to the outer surface of the formed briquette) starch, about pounds; glue, about 6 or 7 pounds, and water about 15 or 16 gallons, and alum (aluminum sulphate), about (3 or 7 pounds in solution.
The coal dust or culm and coke breeze are first heated to about 280 to 300 and thoroughly mixed in a suitable mixer and then I add thereto the mixture of starch, glue and. Water and the Whole is heated and mixed for about one and one-half minutes. After this the alum is dissolved in about 6 or 7 gallons of hot Water and this hot alum solution is added to the mixture of coal dust, coke breeze, starch and glue, with which it cht-nnically unites. The resultant compound will be practically Waterproof after it has been mixed for about one and a half minutes.
After being thus .i'nixed and heated the mass is ready for use and may be molded in the form of briquettes. and in ribbon form, if desired. A run on a conveyor about two hundred feet in length will render the product hard enough to be put in coal pool:- ets, cars or carts for immediate use, if desired.
The product requires no baking, for the reason that the in redients employed with the carbonaceous mixture form a perfect binder, thus obviating the time, labor and cost of baking; this being due to the small percentage of moisture remaining in the finished product.
Application filed. September 25, 1926. Serial No. 137,815. W
A briquette formed from the above described mass will burn readily Without disintegrating orclinkering and emits little or no smoke and may be handled roughly Without breaking.
An important result of the process I find to be the Waterproofing of the starch used, which would not be the case were all of the ingredients heated and mixed at one time instead of in the manner stated.
The coke breeze being cellular, and mixed with bituminous coal dust, Will, when being consumed, act as a filter for the volatile gases, and acts to divide the gases produced by combustion and so prevent disintegration oi the briquette or the like.
Moreover, the porous nature of the coke renders the action of the binder more certain so that the briquette will burn as Well as lump anthracite.
The proportion above stated will, of course, vary some according to the character of the coal dust and coke dust employed.
This product is intended to take the place of anthracite coal, since it burns equally as well.
What I claim is:
l. The herein described process of forming artificial fuel which consists in heating and mixing a mass of powdered or granular bituminous coal, and finely divided coke. then mixing therewith a hot solution of starch and glue and then adding a hot alum solution.
2. The herein described process of form ing artificial fuel which consists in heating and mixing together about one thousand pounds of bituminous coal dust or culm with from six hundred to one thousand pounds of coke breeze, then mixing therewith a solution formed of about fifteen pounds of starch, six or seven pounds of glue, and about fifteen or sixteen gallons of Water, and finally adding to the mass six or seven pounds of alum (aluminum sulphate) in solution and thoroughly mixing the Whole.
3. A composition for artificial fuel formed of bituminous coal cuhn or dust, coke breeze, starch, glue and alum mixed and treated in substantially the manner and proportions set forth.
In testimony whereof I my signature.
MICHAEL F. MAGINNIS.
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