US833801A - Compound for manufacturing artificial fuel. - Google Patents

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NITED STATES PATENT when;

GEORGE D. PLATT, OF'LITOHFIELD, ILLINOIS, Assieivos' TO FRANK BURNES AND M. BOLEY, orsr. LOUIS, inssooni.

COMPOUND FORNIANUFACTURING ARTI ICIAL FuEL Application filed December 4,1906. Serial No. 290,330.

Be it knownthat 1,.GEORGE D. Fund, a

. citizen of the United States of America, residin'g'in the city of L'itchfield, county of Monting Artificial Fuel, which is fully gomery, State of Illinois, have invented a' new and useful Compound for Manufacturset forth in the following s' ecification. v

This invention relates to a compoundifor producing artificial fuel whereby a very low grade of culm, coal-dust, or. the like may be utilized in the production of fuel of great efficiency either for the production of steam, heating purposes or for the various kinds of domestic use; and the invention consists of certain novel features of combination of elements, which are hereinafter clearly set forth-that is to say, the artificial fuel composition or compound consists of the follow-- 'ing ingredients, combined, substantially in proportion as herein set forth: potato pulp, ve pounds; cornmeal, five pounds; rice,

three ounds; clay, two hundred pounds; alum, ve pounds; borax, fourpounds; sulfate of zinc, eight ounces; rosin, five pounds; Washing-soda, six ounces; gum-shellac, five ounces; laundry soap, two. bars; common salt, ten pounds, glucose, eight ouncesf In carrying out this invention five pounds of potato ulp, five vpounds of cornmeal,

three poun s of rice, five pounds of'alum,

four pounds of bora eight ounces of sulfate of zinc, five pounds of rosin, six ounces of 49 v v 5 com ound is then removed from the heat and washing-soda, five ounces of gum-shellac, two bars of laundry soap, ten pounds of com' mon salt, and eight ounces of glucose are to be thoroughlycommingled by heat and agitation, and when these elements are thoroughly commingled the compound is thickened by adding-two hundred pounds vof clay. The

, let ry. 'When the compound is sufficiently dry, mix it with ten tons of'oulm, coal-slack,"

or the like. All being mixed thoroughly, the

Specification of Letters Patent.

pounds of rice,

Eatented Oct. 23, 1906.

sult of this will be that-ten tons ofculii coal5 '5- 5 slack, or the like mixed as above stated" is converted into ten tons of marketable coaljor fuel, which can be used in any ordinarystove, 'f boiler, or furnace, either for domestic or manufacturing purposes, and which will 6 0 have the same heat-giving, powers as that possessed by'the best grade of anthracite or 3 bituminous coal. The coal or: fuel will be smokeless, cinderless, and odorless, and er- 11 fectly clean to handle, being free from I net 651" and'all 'odors. r v I am aware that a composition of crude 'oil- 0r cake-meal, salt, and aceticacidhasbeen used for-the sanie'purpose; but I am not aware that all the ingredients of my; compo- 7o 'sition as set forth above have been .used together as a compound.

Iclaim as myinvention A co mpound consisting of, five pounds. of potato-pulp, five pounds of borax, eight ounces of sulfate of zinc, five minds of rosin, six ounces of wash-. ing-soda, ve ounces of gum-shellac, two bars of laundry soap, ten'pounds ofjcommon salt, a:

eight ounces of glucose, "and two hundred poundsof. clay, ,all in combination with ten tons of coal-slack, culin, or the like.

GEORGE n. PLATT.

' Witnesses: I I

i E. M.' BOLEY,

Gno. D. TAYLOR.

ounds of cornmeal, three 7 5 .ve' pounds 'of alum, four