Specification of Charles Thomas Holcombe : fuel and furnaces.

  • Holcombe, Charles Thomas.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Charles Thomas Holcombe : fuel and furnaces. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 - Holcombes Improvements in Using certain Materials as Fuel, $c. are to be constructed. The third part, of my Invention being for “The Application of the Products arising from the Combustion of the first-mentioned Materials as a Manure and for other useful Purposes,” consists in the collecting the soot black or carbon produced by the combustion of the materials mentioned in the first part of my Patent; and in the mixing of such soot black or carbon with 5 the refuse or calcined matter from the furnaces in the progress of such com¬ bustion. I apply this soot black or carbon, either mixed with such refuse or calcined matter, or mixed with other known manures where lime or chalk is used in preference to the other materials enumerated in the first part of my Patent. My Invention also consists in the collecting of the refuse or calcined 10 matter from the furnace, and this is applicable to be used as a mortar in the building or stopping of garden walls or other buildings where fruit trees are trained, or where insects are destructive, as 1 find mortar made of the last-men¬ tioned refuse a great obstacle to insects or vermin generally. I claim as my In¬ vention the application of chalk, lime, soft stone, broken bricks, or any earthy ]5 substances which in their nature are capable of retaining or being saturated with coal or other mineral tar, or with the oil which is produced in the distillation of coal tar, and which is commonly known by the name of dead oil, either in its liquid or solid state, or with wood, tar, or any other resinous or oily or fatty matter when mixed or saturated with such material as aforesaid, as a fuel, and gQ for the purpose of heating retort furnaces and furnaces generally. I also claim as my Invention the Hues or chambers described herein-before as ascending1 and descending Hues, and shewn in the Drawings hereunto annexed as appli¬ cable to any fuel. I do not, as before mentioned, confine myself to the forms of the Drawings herein-before alluded to, or the scale upon which they are go diawn, 1101 to the materials with which they are to be made ; and I also claim as pai t of my Invention the collecting together in manner above mentioned the soot black or carbon arising from the combustion of fuel before mentioned when mixed up with the materials which become calcined or burnt in the furnaces as herein-before mentioned as a manure. And I also claim the chalk, 30 lime, 01 stone, when calcined or burnt, as a mortar for the purposes herein¬ before mentioned. In witness wheieof, I, the said Charles Thomas Holcombe, have hereunto se * ^ianc^ an(l seab the Eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-three. C. T. (l.s.) HOLCOMBE.
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