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MANUFACTURED FUEL.
The total quantity of manufactured fuel in the
form of briquets, eggettes, coalettes, boulets, and
like products, according to E. W. Parker, of the
United States Geological Survey, in an advance
chapter of Mineral Resources, 1913, on "Fuel
Briquetting," just published, amounted in 1913,
to 181,859 short tons, valued at $1,007,327, a decrease
of 18,205 tons in quantity but an increase
of $55,066 in value, compared to the output in
1912. The slackened demand for briquetted fuel
is believed to be due to the exceptional mildness
of the winter of 1912-13 and of November and
December, 1913. The briquets which appear to
meet with favor in the eastern states are of the
boulet type, pillow or egg shaped, and about the
size of anthracite nut. They are practically
smokeless and make an ideal fuel for the open
grate or kitchen range, holding their shape until
entirely consumed and then falling, when stirred,
into a pulverulent, clinkerless ash. In the Central
and Pacific coast states the popular type of
briquetted fuel appears to be of larger size, about
that of egg coal.
A copy of Mr. Parker's report may be obtained
free on application to the Director of the Geological
Survey, Washington, D. C.
The Interstate Commerce commission has suspended
until August 29 certain proposed increases
of rates on coke in carload lots from
Chicago and other Illinois points to St. Paul and
other cities in Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota.
Roads affected by the order are the Chicago &
Alton, North-Western, Milwaukee, Minneapolis &
St. Louis and other lines. The increases proposed
are from 5 to 25 cents per net ton.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. 63
RECENT COAL TRADE PATENTS.
The following recently granted patents of interest
to the coal trade, are reported expressly for
THE COAI. TRADE BULLETIN by Nesbit & Doolittle,
patent attorneys, Park building, Pittsburgh, Pa.,
from whom printed copies may be procured for
15 cents each:
Limber pin for mine skips, C. H. Sawyer and
James Boditch, Newcastle, New South Wales. Australia;
1,092,750.
Post, for drilling machines, A. F. Deruy, Pittsburg.
Kan.; 1,092,980.
Sprinkling car for mines, J. J. Harris, Canonsburg,
Pa.: 1,093,268.
Mining headlight, R. C. Kruschke, Duluth, Minn.;
1,093,339.
Coke oven door, Henrich Bareuter, Essen-West,
Germany: 1,093,522.
Clamp. XX. L. Knight, Tulsa, Okla.: 1,093,703.
Mine car truck, D. S. Johnston, Hiawatha, Utah;
1,093,783.
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Miner's lamp, F. E. Baldwin, New York; 1,094,-
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