Specification of William Edward Newton : manufacture of coke.

  • William Edward Newton
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of William Edward Newton : manufacture of coke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'M Newtons Improvements in the Manufacture of Coke} Qc. after having come in contact with the curved pipes, they flow off through the pipe c5 into the vessel E. The refrigerating water enters the pipes at d5 below, and after having run through the whole series of pipes will pass off* by the opening above, to be afterwards employed for quenching the coke supplying 5 the engine, or for any other useful purpose. This arrangement of the refrigerator possesses also the important advantage that it can be enlarged, or reduced in capacity without deranging any part of the apparatus, and almost without interfering with its working. Ten rows of pipes of the dimensions given, which will enter the chamber C, will give a surface of about one 10 hundred and twenty-five square yards, which will be more than sufficient for the working of the apparatus. It has not been deemed necessary to furnish Drawings of the steam engine for working the ventilator and supplying the refrigerator with water, &c., or of the concentrating vessel, these parts being independent of the apparatus, 15 and their construction being perfectly well known. I would observe that the apparatus must be furnished at various parts with stopcocks and doors to extract or remove the various products as they accumulate. I would also remark, that although I have above set forth and described the best arrange¬ ment and construction of apparatus with which I am at present acquainted, 20 I do not intend to confine myself rigidly to the arrangement herein shewn and described, as it may doubtless be varied without departing from the nature and object of the present Invention ; nor do I intend to claim the exclusive right to produce ammoniacal salts from the gas evolved during the combustion or distillation of coal, as I am aware that this object has heretofore been 25 effected; but that which I consider to be new in the process above set forth, and therefore with to claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein¬ before in part recited Letters Patent, is, the adaptation to ordinary coke ovens of an apparatus whereby the gaseous products evolved during the combustion of coal therein may, without interfering with the ordinary process of coking, 30 be drawn off and conveyed away to a receptacle or chamber where they may be separated from each other, and combined with other chemical agents, to form valuable products, or used for some other useful purposes, as above described. In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Newton, have hereunto 35 set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. W. E. (l.s.) NEWTON.
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