Specification of Jasper Wheeler Rogers : preparing peat for fuel, and using the same in combination with other substances as manure.

  • Rogers, Jasper W.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Specification of Jasper Wheeler Rogers : preparing peat for fuel, and using the same in combination with other substances as manure. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rogers Improved Methods for the Preparation of Peat, §c. are secured by brickwork or masonry, and on either side a rail is laid to form a way for the ready passage over the pit of a series of furnaces or chambers A, A, A, intended to receive the peat which is to be charred, and which, when ignited, gives off heat sufficient to dry the peat piled within the shed. These furnaces or chambers A are formed of sheet iron or any other suitable material, having 5 a quadrangular framing at bottom provided with five bars or perforated plates, or other similar contrivance, as may be found most convenient. The sides of these chambers incline inwards pyramidically, but, although I prefer square based chambers or furnaces, I at times use circular based or conically shaped furnaces, which are desirable and effective. Each chamber is made 10 moveable by being mounted on wheels or otherwise, so as to be taken out of the air chamber to admit of the peat being packed in the chamber or furnace, which is done most conveniently by turning it over on its side and packing it through the bottom. These furnaces A are placed within a space or chamber formed by slanting iron plates B, B, placed immediately over the 15 ash pit, and forming a continuous air chamber from one end to the other of the kiln or shed. B*, B:]:, are doors for closing the ends of the chambers, which must be of a sufficient capacity to allow of an air space all round each furnace. The plates B, B, are pierced with rows of holes, decreasing gradually in diame¬ ter upwards. The fire boxes are stationed at equal distances apart on the line 20 or tramway, and immediately beneath vertical pipes or funnels C, C, C, attached to the upper part of the chamber formed of the plates B, B. These pipes are intended to receive and surround the several pipes D, D, D, which carry off the smoke and gases from the burning fuel within the fire boxes. The upper end of each of the pipes C, C, C, is closed so as to confine the heated air which would 25 otherwise rapidly pass off, but an opening is made in the cover or closing plate to allow of the pipes D, D, D, sliding up and down freely in guides provided for that purpose. The object of giving the pipes D this motion is, that they may be drawn upwards out of the way of the fire boxes as they are moved into the shed, but when these boxes are arranged in their proper positions the 30 pipes D are lowered so as to fit over the circular opening formed in the top of the fire boxes as before mentioned. E, E, E, are beams which form the skeleton of the frame on which the peat is piled. The peat to be dried is piled up on either side of the air chamber B, B, and to such a height as the shed admits of; and in order to keep rain or the moist atmosphere from falling upon the 35 peat, and yet allow the wind to act upon it when artificial heat is not being employed, a covering composed of a series of shutters II, H, H, overlapping each other when closed somewhat like a Venetian blind, is constructed, which may be readily opened or closed at pleasure. These shutters are made of any