Specification of Frederick Neville : manufacture of coke.

  • Neville, Frederick.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of Frederick Neville : manufacture of coke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nevilles Improvements in the Manufacture of CoJce. screw g is shaped into a hole in the cross bar c. The cover or lid f of the mould, with the cross bar and screw being turned back, the mould is filled with the half melted small coal, which is in a spungy or pulpy state ; the cover/ is then turned upon it, the cross bar c made fast in the staple e, and by turning 5 the screw g by the handle h the plastic small coal is pressed into a complete mass or cake; the mould and cake of coal is then left to cool for about an hour, when the mould may be opened and the cake withdrawn. And having now fully described the said Invention, communicated to me by a Foreigner residing abroad as aforesaid, I declare that what I claim as new 10 is, the improved method or process of manufacturing coke herein-before described, whereby,— Firstly, the heat evolved in the coking process is applied to the distilling of coal, and the products obtained by such distillation are collected separately from the coke, and whereby, 15 Secondly, the heat evolved in the coking process is employed in the caking or solidification of small coal. And I declare that I do not claim either of the processes herein-before described of manufacturing coke, distilling coal, and gathering the products of distillation, or of caking small coal separately, or in themselves, or otherwise than as combined together, that is to say, the 20 manufacture of coke in coke ovens, with the distillation of coal in retorts, or the manufacture of coke with the caking of small coal; neither do I confine myself to the precise shape, arrangement, proportions of parts or sizes set forth or exhibited in the Drawings hereunto annexed, or to any particular number of ovens to be worked together or in connection with one another. 25 And such the said Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, new, and never before used within that part of Her Majesty’s United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Her Dominion of Wales, Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, or in Her Colonies or Plantations abroad, I do hereby declare this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily SO believe this my Specification doth comply in all respects fully and without reserve or disguise with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained ; wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to the said Invention. In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Neville, have hereunto set 35 my hand and seal, this Sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. FREDERICK (l.s.) NEVILLE.