UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOEIN CARRINGTON SELLARs, OF BIRKENHEAD, ENGLAND. IMPROVEMENT IN coMPosition FUEL FOR MANUFACTURE OF GAS. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133, S94, dated December 10, 1872.

To all whom it may concerni: products in the form of liquid hydrocarbons Beit known that I, JoHN CARRINGTON SEL and the remainder as gas, I prefer the follow. LARS,England, of Birkenhead, manufacturing in the chemist, county of have Chester, in ing proportions, by weight: Seaware, four vented a certain improvement relating to Gas parts; peat-charcoal, one part; and coal-tar or Yielding Fuel, of which the following is a spec pitch, or bitumen or mineral oil, two and one ification: half parts. The distillation would be com I produce a novel composition of matter to ture.menced, in this instance, at a low tempera be used in place of coal, cannel, and like min erals in the manufacture of gas for illuminat The proportions of the material may be va. ing and heating purposes; and it consists essen ried, as will be evident, without departing from tially in mixing sea-weed, sea-grass, and sea my invention. wrack, (hereafter, for brevity, called sea The residue or coke left in the retort or re ware) with one or more of the following sub torts is suitable for use as fuel when with - stances, namely: Coal-tar, pitch, bitumen, and drawn. When it is to be made into metal mineral oils, (either with or without peat) founder's blacking it is ground between hor peat, charcoal, or other carbonaceous matter. izontalappliances. millstones or other suitable reducing The mixed mass is subjected to destructive distillation in retorts. Having now described the nature of my said The advantages secured by mixing sea-ware invention, and particularized the same in such with the substances named are, first, insuring manner that others will be enabled to carry my more effective separation of the light hydro invention into practice, I claim carbons; second, obtaining an increased yield 1. The within-described compound for gas of carbureted hydrogen; and, third, leaving a fuel, consisting of sea-ware intimately mixed coke fit for use as fuel, but more particularly with coal-tar or analogous cementing mate valuable in the manufacture of metal-found rial in about the proportions designated. ers' blacking. ter,2. andThe peat combination or peat-charcoal of sea-ware, ground tarry togeth mat In carrying my invention into practice, I er, as specified. mix sea-ware, preferably in the decomposed 3. The within-described process for produc state, with peat-smalls, coal-tar or pitch, or bi ing illuminating gas or oil and founders' black tumen or mineral oil, in the following propor ing by grinding sea-ware with other matter tions, by weight: Sea-ware, two parts; peat and distilling, as set forth. smalls, one part; and coal tar or pitch, or bi In testimony whereofI, the said JoHN CAR tumen or mineral oil, one and a half part, RINGTON SELLARs, have hereunto set my These are well mixed together, (edge-runners hand the twenty-fifth day of September, A.D. are suitable,) and formed into blocks, or used S72. in the mass. Instead of the one part of peat smalls mentioned above, one-eighth to one JOHN CARRINGTON SELLARS. fourth part of peat-charcoal or other dry car In the presence of - bonaceous matter may be used. J. P. KING, When it is desired. to obtain part of the JAMES JOHNSON.