Specification of Jasper Wheeler Rogers : preparation of peat and manufacture of fuel.

  • Rogers, Jasper W.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of Jasper Wheeler Rogers : preparation of peat and manufacture of fuel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rogers Impts. in the Preparation and Manufacture of Peat into Fuel, <§c. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Jasper Wheeler Rogers, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Inven¬ tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures 5 marked thereon (that is to say) :— It is well known that in the manufacture of peat considerable loss arises from the upper surface or more porous part of the bog being obliged to be removed and thrown aside, so as to get at the more dense stata underneath. It is also well known that in bringing the peat to a nominally dry state con- 10 siderable loss is sustained from the friability of the sods or pieces, as large quantities of peat mould, or technically speaking 66 mull,” accumulate, which are useless or of little value. Now the object of the present Invention is, first, to obviate these evils, and convert this accumulating refuse into a valuable product; and, secondly, to 15 render more perfect and effectual the system of charring or carbonizing peat, as described in the Specification of a Patent granted to me by Her present most Excellent Majesty, and bearing date the First day of June, One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. The means whereby I am enabled to utilize the “ upper surface ” of the 20 bog and the peat mould or “ mull,” and produce fuel or charcoal therefrom, will be understood from the following description thereof, reference being had to the Drawing forming part of this my Specification. When the upper surface is being removed I place it in pyramidal or other shaped heaps in any convenient place where the rain will not lodge, and 25 where the moisture may run away. After giving it as much time as I con¬ veniently can to dry, I remove it to the drying house or building particularly described in my former Patent, where it is intermixed with the dry mull or mould which accumulates from the friability of the peat. This intermixture is effected by hand labor, or by machinery constructed upon the same principle 30 as the “ pug mill,” the material having been previously screened to keep back all pieces exceeding a cubic half inch in bulk. When this mixture has been properly effected I subject the material to the operation of heat in the appa¬ ratus shewn in the Drawing, which apparatus is set up in a shed similar to those described under my former Patent. 35 Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of the apparatus, and Fig. 2 is a cross section of the same. The material to be operated upon is placed in a hopper or chamber A, situate at one end of a chamber or trough B, B, B, which extends from one end to the other of the shed, and is supplied with the mixed