Briquettes as Fuel in Foreign Countries; Reports from Consuls. Issued from the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Department of State (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...is obtained and until the point of the dead center is passed by the cranks. The table is put into place by a drum grooved in a particular way, easily understood by examining the first illustration. The alveoli are filled by means of an ordinary distributer fed by an apparatus for the preparation of the mass. The briquettes leave the machine on a swing table or on an endless belt conveyor placed under the machine. Vol xxvi--o: 5 The advantages claimed by the inventors of this double compressing machine might lc briefly stated as below: Condensation in a small volume of a strong and powerful apparatus capable of great production: considerable strength of compression on both faces of the briquettes, permitting great solidity and great homogeneity of the material; possibility of giving to the briquette, on each of its faces, forms or grooves, rendering it easy to break; advantages of'being able to manufacture briquettes of a perfectly defined shape with a minimum of waste in transport and manipulation; motor power reduced to a minimum; all the organs of the machine under control before the eyes, rendering them easy to be kept in order and replaced when necessary with little loss of time; finally, the great speed of the machine, represented by 35 strokes of the piston per minute. The above agglomerating machine is built in three sizes, and the following table gives the daily production of eleven hours and the normal weight of the briquettes: SMAIX-SIZEl) AM) PERFORATED BRIQUETTES. Certain mines make small briquettes, as they are in great demand for domestic use. The Bietrix Company also delivers machines for this purpose, that make six briquettes of nearly 2 pounds in weight at each stroke of the piston. Perforated briquettes are consumed in large quantities in...