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US959870A
US959870A US48007609A US1909480076A US959870A US 959870 A US959870 A US 959870A US 48007609 A US48007609 A US 48007609A US 1909480076 A US1909480076 A US 1909480076A US 959870 A US959870 A US 959870A
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    • C10PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
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  • This invention relates to briquets made from wood shavings and other loose combustible woody refuse, which is compressed, under high pressure, into compact billets, which retain their form after the pressure is relieved.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a pile of loose material, such as wood shavings, with which is intimately mixed a combustible binding material, such as rosin or pitch; and, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the complete briquets.
  • 1 designates loose wood shavings, etc., with which is preferably mixed a binding agent, such as rosin or pitch, particles of which are indicated by the reference numeral 2.
  • a binding agent such as rosin or pitch
  • rosin, in granular form, or pitch is intimately mixed with the loose waste material and the quantity of binder thus used may be varied according to the character of the waste maquets are used. Briquets containing a considerable quantity of rosin or pitch will yield a greater number of heat units than where lesser quantities are employed and the binder assists in the complete combustion of the other ingredients of thebriquet.
  • the loose waste material such as wood shavings, sawdust,- etc., either with or without the binding agent, is placed in a tubular mold, one end i of which, on its inner .side, is concave and preferably of hemispherical form and the material is compressed in this mold by means of a plunger having an inner face of hemispherical form.
  • a very high pressure is applied to the plunger and the heat generated by the compression of the mass causes a liquefaction of the rosin, where such is employed, or a melting of the pitch, and an exudation of any resinous or gummy substance that may be inherent in the waste material and these substances assist in causing the particles of waste material to cohere.

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11. 0. 11001111. FUEL IBBIQUET. LPPLIOLTIOI FILED FEB. 25, 1909.
959,870. 1 Patented May 31, 1910.
Java/1% Los Angeles,
terial or to the purpose for which the bri- DAVID C. MCGAN, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
Specification of Letters Patent.
FUEL-BRIQUET.
Patented May 31, 1910.
Application filed February 25, 1909. Serial No. 480,076.
T 0 all whom. it may concern:
Be it known that I, DAVID C. MCCAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented cer-, tain new and useful F uel-Briquets, of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to briquets made from wood shavings and other loose combustible woody refuse, which is compressed, under high pressure, into compact billets, which retain their form after the pressure is relieved.
The method of manufacturing the briquets, as well as the resulting product, is set forth in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 illustrates a pile of loose material, such as wood shavings, with which is intimately mixed a combustible binding material, such as rosin or pitch; and, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the complete briquets.
Referring to the drawing, 1 designates loose wood shavings, etc., with which is preferably mixed a binding agent, such as rosin or pitch, particles of which are indicated by the reference numeral 2. It is not essential that a binding agent be incorporated with the mass, as it is found that when the woody material is compressed in the manner hereinafter described the particles will cohere and the briquets will retain their form even if no binding agent be additionally supplied. Preferably, however, rosin, in granular form, or pitch, is intimately mixed with the loose waste material and the quantity of binder thus used may be varied according to the character of the waste maquets are used. Briquets containing a considerable quantity of rosin or pitch will yield a greater number of heat units than where lesser quantities are employed and the binder assists in the complete combustion of the other ingredients of thebriquet.
In forming'the briquets the loose waste material, such as wood shavings, sawdust,- etc., either with or without the binding agent, is placed in a tubular mold, one end i of which, on its inner .side, is concave and preferably of hemispherical form and the material is compressed in this mold by means of a plunger having an inner face of hemispherical form. A very high pressure is applied to the plunger and the heat generated by the compression of the mass causes a liquefaction of the rosin, where such is employed, or a melting of the pitch, and an exudation of any resinous or gummy substance that may be inherent in the waste material and these substances assist in causing the particles of waste material to cohere. But, it is found that when a sufiicient pressure is applied to the shavings, etc., in a cylindrical mold having concave ends the waste material will be compressed into a cylindrical briquet having rounded ends which will retain its shape after the pressure is removed, even though no binding material be added. When the briquets are formed, under high pressure, (say twenty tons to the square inch) in a mold or press of this form, there is a concentration of the shavings, etc., toward a common center, which, it is found, causes the particles of the mass to cohere. Experiments with briquets of shavings etc., formed by compression in molds having flat ends have been unsuccessful because no coherency of the mass could be obtained.
The briquets for fuel blocks resulting from I the method of manufacture above pointed out, in cylindrical molds having rounded ends, are cylindrical in form and with rounded ends as shown in the drawing, and these bodies are solid, hard, and do not crumble, chip or break when carelessly handled or when stacked.
lVhat I claim, is
As an article of manufacture, a compressed elongated cylindrical briquet l'iaving rounded ends and composed of wood shavings and the-like.
In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.
DAVID e'MCoAN.
\Vitnesses C. H. POQUERGUIOT, G120. H. BARRY.
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US4015951A (en) * 1976-01-05 1977-04-05 Gunnerman Rudolf W Fuel pellets and method for making them from organic fibrous materials
US4834777A (en) * 1988-01-28 1989-05-30 Hydraulic Services, Inc. Fuel pelletizing apparatus and method
WO1992019702A1 (en) * 1991-05-03 1992-11-12 Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. Compressed wood fuel pellet and method and machine for making same
WO2022082052A1 (en) * 2020-10-15 2022-04-21 Dynavap, LLC Biomass tablet and method and apparatus for forming the same

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4015951A (en) * 1976-01-05 1977-04-05 Gunnerman Rudolf W Fuel pellets and method for making them from organic fibrous materials
US4834777A (en) * 1988-01-28 1989-05-30 Hydraulic Services, Inc. Fuel pelletizing apparatus and method
WO1992019702A1 (en) * 1991-05-03 1992-11-12 Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. Compressed wood fuel pellet and method and machine for making same
US6152973A (en) * 1991-05-03 2000-11-28 Innovation Investment Consultants Ab Compressed wood fuel pellet and method and machine for making same
WO2022082052A1 (en) * 2020-10-15 2022-04-21 Dynavap, LLC Biomass tablet and method and apparatus for forming the same

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