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US724214A
US724214A US13896203A US1903138962A US724214A US 724214 A US724214 A US 724214A US 13896203 A US13896203 A US 13896203A US 1903138962 A US1903138962 A US 1903138962A US 724214 A US724214 A US 724214A
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C10—PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
    • C10L—FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C10G, C10K; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE OR UNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; FIRELIGHTERS
    • C10L5/00—Solid fuels
    • C10L5/40—Solid fuels essentially based on materials of non-mineral origin
    • C10L5/44—Solid fuels essentially based on materials of non-mineral origin on vegetable substances
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E50/00—Technologies for the production of fuel of non-fossil origin
    • Y02E50/10—Biofuels, e.g. bio-diesel
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E50/00—Technologies for the production of fuel of non-fossil origin
    • Y02E50/30—Fuel from waste, e.g. synthetic alcohol or diesel

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  • My invention relates to an artificial fuel
  • my invention consists in an artificial fuel composed of the residuum from the manufacture of acetylene I5 gas and carbonaceous materialsuch, for example, as ashes and cinders from the burning of wood and coal.
  • the fuel may be practically manufactured as follows:
  • the ashes and cinders may be spread on a floor and a sufficient amount of the slush or Watery residuum from an acetylene-gas machine maybe poured onto the ashes and cinders in quantities sufficient to make the mixture the consistency of ordinary mortar for laying up brick and stone.
  • the ashes and cinders may be spread on a floor and a sufficient amount of the slush or Watery residuum from an acetylene-gas machine maybe poured onto the ashes and cinders in quantities sufficient to make the mixture the consistency of ordinary mortar for laying up brick and stone.
  • ashes and cinders and residuum from the gasmachine may then be thoroughly mixed, using for the purpose a hoe or shovel, so that as far as may be every particle of cinder and ash 0 shall be covered with the residuum.
  • This mixture is allowed to remain on the floor for one or two hours, but not long enough for it y to become dry and hard, as I find it to be much better to use it in the furnace while it- 5 is still in a wet plastic condition.
  • the mixture may then be spread onto a fire already started in a furnace and will efficiently serve as a fuel, maintaining the fire in the furnace without the use of any coal or any other fuel 0 than itself.
  • the cinder which results from the burning of this artificial fuel may be itself broken up again and mixed with a fresh quantity of the residuum from the acetylene-gas machine, to be again used in the furnace
  • the mixture may be materially improved by using sulfate of iron with the ash and cinderfor example, a pound of the sulfate of iron to one hundred pounds of the mixture, although this proportion is not of material importance and may be varied as convenience or experience may prove desirable.
  • An artificial fuel consisting of a mixture of the residuum from the manufacture of acetylene gas, ash and cinderand sulfate of 1ron.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM B. SMITH, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO HAROLD P. BROWN, OF MONTOLAIR, NEW JERSEY.
ARTIFICIAL FUEL.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent-No. 724,214, dated March 31, 1903. Application filed January 14, 1903. Serial No. 138,962. (No specimens.)
Io aZZ whom it may concern.-
Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Artificial Fuel, of which the following is a specification.
My invention relates to an artificial fuel,
with the object in view of utilizing materials which are at the present time considered nuisances and waste products.
With this end in View my invention consists in an artificial fuel composed of the residuum from the manufacture of acetylene I5 gas and carbonaceous materialsuch, for example, as ashes and cinders from the burning of wood and coal.
The fuel may be practically manufactured as follows: The ashes and cinders may be spread on a floor and a sufficient amount of the slush or Watery residuum from an acetylene-gas machine maybe poured onto the ashes and cinders in quantities sufficient to make the mixture the consistency of ordinary mortar for laying up brick and stone. The
ashes and cinders and residuum from the gasmachine may then be thoroughly mixed, using for the purpose a hoe or shovel, so that as far as may be every particle of cinder and ash 0 shall be covered with the residuum. This mixture is allowed to remain on the floor for one or two hours, but not long enough for it y to become dry and hard, as I find it to be much better to use it in the furnace while it- 5 is still in a wet plastic condition. The mixture may then be spread onto a fire already started in a furnace and will efficiently serve as a fuel, maintaining the fire in the furnace without the use of any coal or any other fuel 0 than itself.
While I do not wish to be understood as having solved beyond all question the chemical action which takes place in the burning of this mixture, my theory, as far as I have at present 5 formed one, is as follows: The residuum (containing hydrate of lime, hydrocarbon in solution, hydrochloric acid, and carbonic acid) when distributed over the ash and cinder has a great affinity for the poisonous gases of the atmosphere, which it quicklyabsorbs, and it is for the purpose of absorbing these that I allow the mixture to remain for one or two hours in order that it may take from the atmosphere the carbonic acid and such nitrogenous. gases as may be floating in the vicinity.
When this mixture is finally placed on hot burning coals, it gathers an atom of carbon from the ash and cinder, thereby breaking down the carbonic acid and forming carbonmonoxid gas, which immediately ignites. This gas continues to form as long as there is any carbonic acid in the mixture or surrounding air. The heat is very intense, and portions of the mixture can be added from time to time and the fire continued indefi- I nitely.
One of the economic features of this fuel is that the cinder which results from the burning of this artificial fuel may be itself broken up again and mixed with a fresh quantity of the residuum from the acetylene-gas machine, to be again used in the furnace When the ash and cinder have. been used in this manner several times over, the mixture may be materially improved by using sulfate of iron with the ash and cinderfor example, a pound of the sulfate of iron to one hundred pounds of the mixture, although this proportion is not of material importance and may be varied as convenience or experience may prove desirable.
What I claim is 1. An artificialfuol consisting of the residuum from the manufacture of acetylene gas and ash and cinder. 85
2. An artificial fuel consisting of a mixture of the residuum from the manufacture of acetylene gas, ash and cinderand sulfate of 1ron.
In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 13th day of January, 1903.
WILLIAM B. SMITH.
WVitnesses:
FREDK. HAYNES, GEORGE BARRY, Jr.
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