622 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN. September 29, 1916. north-east coast : Genoa, Savona or Spezzia, 67s. 6d. ; Naples, 65s.; Marseilles, 65s.; and Sicilian ports, 70s. The rates from Cardiff will be 5s. below these figures ; and about 2s. 6d. higher from the Forth. A comparison with the list of fix- tures which follows will show that the concessions made by ship owners—if accurately represented by the above figures —are not positively ruinous to the ship owning community. Homewards, Eastern business is quiet, but fairly well maintained in rates. Bombay is quoted at 130s. on d.w., with 140s. done for Genoa, late October. Kurrachee is listed at 107s. 6d. on scale, with Calcutta at 170s. on d.w. The Madras Coast is quoted at 205s. for kernels. The rice ports are steady, at 165s., with Burmah np to 170s., and Saigon at 175s. The Mediterranean ore ports are steady, at from 20s. to 22s. 6d. to the United Kingdom. Alexandria has paid 55s. per 60 cu. ft. to London or Hull. American grain business is inactive, with Northern Range to Bristol Channel quoted at Ils., and Gulf to West Britain mentioned at from 14s. 6d. to 15s. Northern Range to Portugal has been done at 18s. Cotton rates are inclined to weaken in the absence of transactions. Coal rates are easier, at 50s. to the River Plate. Deals are duh, at about 250s. The River Plate is firm, with an advancing tendency, and charterers are now willing to operate on the basis of 135s. for October-November loading for the United Kingdom. Ship owners with vessels in this position are asking 140s. Rcsario to United Kingdom has been fixed at 125s. on the 75 per cent, wheat basis. Tyne to Alexandria, 3,500, 72s. 6d.; Barcelona, 2,100, 60s.; Calais, 420, 36s., coke; Cagliari, 2,000, 75s.; 2,500, 70s.; 1,800, 75s.; Copenhagen, 1,500, 27 kr.; Cape Verds, 5,500, 30s.; Drammen, 400, 24 kr.; Dunkirk, 420, 36s., coke; Genoa, 3,000, 72s. 6d.; 2,100, 72s. 6d.; 3,500, 72s. 6d.; Gibraltar, 2,000 , 35s. 6d.; Leghorn, 3,000, 72s. 6d.; 3,500, 72s. fids.; London, 1,500, 12s.; Marseilles, 2,800, 72s. fid.; North French Range, 400, 36s., coke; 600, 36s., coke; 450, 36s., coke; 500, 36s., coke; Oran, 2,500, 42s. 6d.; 3,000, 42s. 6d.; 2,000, 42s. fid.; Rouen, 600, 37s., coke; 500, 37s., coke; 450, 37s., coke; 700, 37s., coke, three voyages; 1,700, 37s., coke; Savona, 3,500, 72s. 6d.; Spezzia, 3,500, 72s. 6d.; St. Vincent, 5,500, 30s. ; Treport, 400, 37s., coke; 420, 36s., Cardiff to Bordeaux, 2,100, 2,400, 34s.; 3,200, 33s. ; Caen, 1.200, 23s.; 500, 24s.; Campana, 4,800, 30s., 250, Oct.; Colastine, 2,000, 35s., 200; Cherbourg, 1,200 and 1,250, 23s. fid.; 500, 24s. 6d.; Djibouti, 75s., reported; Dunkirk, 870, 28s. 6d. ; Dieppe, 23s. 6d.; Gibraltar, 5,600, 27s., 500; 2,600, 29s. 6d.; 28s.; 800, 28s.; 1,100, 30s., 500; Gran- ville, 500, 23s.; 1,200, 24s.; Genoa, 2,500, 70s.; 1,500, 70s.; 3,000, 72s. 6d.; 2,800, 73s.; Havre, 1,150, 22s. 6d.; 250, 23s. 6d.; Honfleur, 1,200, 23s.; 500, 24s.; Leghorn, 1,500, 70s.; Marseilles, 5,500, 55s.; 2,000, 53s., part cargo, fixed abroad; 6,000, 63s.; Nantes, 800, 30s.; Naples, 2,500, 71s., 600; Pauillac, 1,600, 34s., 450 discharge; Port Said, 4,400, 60s.; Rouen, 24s. 6d.; 1,500, 24s. fid., voyages; 1,300, 24s. 6d.; Savona, 2,550, 70s.; 1,500, 70s.; 3,000, 72s. 6d.; 2,800, 73s.; St. Nazaire, 2,250, 2,000, 1,700, 2,700, 29s.; Spezzia, 2,550, 70s.; 1,500, 70s.; Tunis, 2,100, 57s. 6d., 400 discharge; 2,600, 57s. 6d., 400; Zarate, 32s. 6d., early Oct. Swansea to Nantes, 800, 30s.; Caen, 700, 24s. 8d.; Cher- bourg, 700, 24s. fid. ; Rouen, 700, 25s. fid. ; 1,600 and 1,800, 24s. fid.; Genoa, Savona, Spezzia, or Leghorn, 1,500, 70s.; Genoa, Savona, or Spezzia, 3,500, 70s. ; Nantes, 650, 30s.; Dunkirk, 1,300, 27s. 6d.; Belfast, 650, 12s. Newport to Pauillac, 1,500, 34s.; Nantes, 800, 30s.; Bor- deaux, 3,800, 34s.; Genoa, Savona, Spezzia, or Leghorn, 2,250, 70s.; Gibraltar, 1,650, 29s.; 5,600, 27s., 500; Roche- fort, 1,700, 29s.; Seville, 1,500, 29s.; Genoa or Savona, 3.200, 75s. Port Talbot to Rouen, 900, 25s. 6d. ; Nantes, 800, 30s.; St. Nazaire, 2,700, 29s. Hartlepool to Malmo, 800, 29 kr. Hull to Havre, 2,900, 24s. 6d.; Gothenburg, 1,900, 27 kr. ; Koiding, 300, 40 kr., coke; Drammen, 500, coke, private terms; Dunkirk, 300, 36s., coke; Christiania, 700, 40 kr., coke; Gefle, 2,500, 274 kr.; 600, 35s. 6d., coke. Goole to Dieppe, 1,000, 27s. fid.; Treport, 500, 28s. Glasgow to La Pallice,' 36s.; Bordeaux, 37s.; Genoa or Savona, 70s.; Spezzia, 66s. Llanelly to Rouen, 1,550, 24s. 9d.; Dublin, 400, 13s. London to Tyne, 300, 12s. fid., burnt ore. West Hartlepool to Drammen, 800, 27 kr.; Christianafjord, 500, 26 kr. Birkenhead to Gibraltar, 2,400, 28s. ____________________________ OBITUARY. Mr. Geo. Alfred Sutcliffe, a partner in the firm of Messrs. John Sutcliffe, coal merchants, Oldham, died suddenly last week at the age of 41 years. . The death has occurred at Buxton, after a lengthy illness, of Mr. Thomas Berry, for half a century or more, surveyor and land agent, in connection with Lord Ellesmere’s estates and colliery properties in southern Lancashire. The deceased gentleman was in his 81st year. The death occurred, at his residence, The Firs, at West Hallam, near Ilkeston, on Friday, of Mr. Thomas William- son, managing director of the West Hallam Colliery Com- pany Limited, at the age of 73. Mr. Williamson was rabbit shooting on the previous day, and was seized with a heart attack. Recently he attended the funeral of his brother, who was managing director of a group of collieries at Cannock Chase, and who died aged 92. Both hailed from Durham, and both rose from the position of pit boy. ____________________________ GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS. *** Any of the following publications may be obtained on application at this office at the price named post free. COAL MINING ORGANISATION CO^JMITTEE : THIRD GENERAL REPORT, 3|d. Friendly Societies’ Annual Return, Form No. 5, 24d. East India Trade : Tables, 1910-11 to 1914-15, 2s. Alkali, etc., Works Regulation Act, 1906, 52nd Report, for 1915, 2s. 4d. Statutory Rules and Orders, 1916 : (Nos. 586, 587, and 589), Munitions of War, ltd. each. Health of Munition Workers, Memo. No. 12, Statistical Information Concerning Output in Relation to Hours of Work, 2d. .Acts, 1916: South Metropolitan Gas. Is. Old.; Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway, 9.}d. Financial Facilities for Trade Report, lid. Hong Kong Report for 1915, 2|d. ABSTRACTS OF PATENT SPECIFICATIONS RECENTLY ACCEPTED. 11390 (1915). Improvements in Boiler Furnaces. H. Breach, of 49, High-street, Itchen, Hants.—Relates to boiler fur- naces, more particularly for boilers of the marine cylindrical type, and of that class in which a plurality of furnaces are provided which may communicate, and one or more of which is or are adapted for use with solid fuel and another or others for use with liquid fuel, said furnaces being capable of use either individually or collectively. Fig. 1 is a longi- tudinal central section, and fig. 2 a longitudinal section through a flue, a designates the boiler casing shown as mounted on masonry or brickwork b. The furnaces c c1 are arranged in superposed pairs side by side, the upper furnace c of each being adapted for coal consumption and provided with a grate d and bridge d1, the lower furnace c1 being adapted for oil consumption, for which purpose it is pro- vided with jets or nozzles e and a directing or vaporising plate e1. A firebrick wall / separates the pair of flues g, g1 at one end from the corresponding flues at the other end, and a connecting member h is provided between each pair of flues, whether coal or oil fuel is being used, and in either / °o cd ooc^ Joocu case the gases of combustion pass into an extended space i il within each flue at the rear of the furnace proper, which space serves as an additional combustion chamber for the burning gases. The said chambers i i1 may be provided with Galloway or similar tubes if thought desirable. From the upper combustion chamber i the gases pass through the orifice or connecting member h to the similar chamber il, of the lower flue, the gases, in the case of using liquid fuel, assisting the vaporisation by heating the surface of the directing or vaporising plate e1 with which said liquid fuel comes in contact on issuing from the nozzles e. The gases from both furnaces or flues of a pair issue through an orifice or connecting member j in the lower flue to a space or flue k outside the boiler shell, or issue through the partially open end or mouth of the furnace 'whence they may be directed for heating a feed heater illustrated at I, or an evaporator, steam superheater or other apparatus, after which they again pass to said space k and thence to a yommon smoke flue or uptake. (Four claims.) 16108 (1915). Improvements relating to Apparatus for Discharging and Quenching Coke. S. N. Wellington, of 39, Mincing-lane, London, E.C. — Relates to apparatus for discharging coke from vertical retorts and for quenching the coke, and is more especially appli- cable to coke produced at comparatively low tem- peratures. The object is to avoid waste in discharg- ing, to improve the coke, and also to quench the coKe in a simple and effective manner without contact of the coke with the water used, and generally to provide an apparatus simple in construction and effective in operation. Fig. 1 is ,22 ^2® * wi® gMEgntfs?-. dfnhL lr a side elevation, partly in section; fig. 2 is an end elevation: and fig. 3 is a plan view of the gearing operating the rams, to an enlarged scale. Two receptacles d are mounted upon a carriage frame e in such position that two alternate vertical retorts of a battery may be discharged simultaneously, and each receptacle d is provided with a 'sliding cover plate 1, beneath which toothed racks are mounted to mesh wfith pinions 2 mounted upon spindles 3 carried immediately beneath and near the side of the outwardly flaring upper end of each receptacle. A chain wheel and chain 4 rotate the spindle 3, and thus cause the cover plate 1 to slide to or fro for closing or opening the top of each receptacle. Upon the carriage frame e is a tank 5, to contain the water for quench- ing the receptacles d. The lower ends of d pass into the tank 5 so as to be completely surrounded by the water in the tank. Holes 6 are formed in the top of the tank 5 in a position corresponding to d and of a larger diameter than that of d. so that when the water is sprayed from the upper end of the receptacles on to the outer surface thereof it returns to the tank. A pump 8 and motor 91 are mounted above the tank 5, with the suction pipe 7 extending to near the bottom of the. tank and with its upper end connected to the pump 8. The pump outlet discharges into the pipes 9 by which water is supplied to the spray pipes 10 surrounding the receptacles d, the pipes 10 being provided with orifices through which water Fig.2 is directed inwardly towards the outer surface of the recep- tacle. A platform 11 serves for access to the upper part of the receptacles. A central overflow outlet pipe 12 may be provided in the tank 5 (fig. 1) and partitions 121 may extend into the tank short of the bottom, to prevent the water being spilt on a too sudden movement or stoppage of the quenching machine. The motor equipment and gear are indicated by 13, the controller by 131, and the gear, operating the axle 15 by 14. A contact arm 16 beneath the carriage frame e enables current to be passed to the motor 13 from conductors 17 of a three-phase circuit mounted near the side wall of the well x in which the discharging machine is mounted (fig. 2). The receptacles d are pro- vided with sliding plates 18, provided, on each side with toothed racks engag- ing with segments 19. One of the seg- ments is mounted on a spindle 20 transversely across the frame e, while an operating lever 21 is mounted upon the outward end of the spindle 20 and is extended at the lower end to connect with the segment 19 by means of a link 22, while at the other side of the spindle 20 a short downward -arm is provided correspond- ing to the downward part of the lever 21 to connect with a second link 22 on the other side of the carriage frame. A link 23 on each side connects the sets of segments of each of 1 ________ ___ ____ ___ _____o plates 18 may be operated by the single hand lever 21. The inward edges of the sliding plates 18 are formed with curved downwardly flaring flanges 25 to bring the rams 26 on their upward movement into exact coincidence with the centres of the receptacles d. The bottom doors 24 of the retorts to be discharged are retained with the charge in the receptacles d. For this purpose the carriage frame e is extended at one end in order that two spare doors 24 may be transversely mounted thereon corresponding to the position of the retorts, and these, after the discharge of the two retorts, are lifted into position to close them so that the empty retorts can be re-charged, the doors being retained in the receptacles upon the inwardly protruding edges of the sliding plates 18 as indicated in dotted lines (fig. 1) until the receptacles them- selves are discharged. On the discharge of the retorts, the rams 26 are lifted through d, the weight of the doors 24 with the charge upon them being taken by the rams 26. The doors 24 are released, and with the charges are lowered into the receptacles upon the rams. The covers are then closed, and the motor and pump set into operation for quenching the charges. Pairs of gripping arms 27 are mounted beneath the frame e to prevent upsetting when the spare bottom doors 24 are lifted off the frame. These arms 27 engage the heads of the rails on which the carriage frame e runs, in such manner that they permit freedom of movement to the carriage frame. Base plates 28 are mounted upon the carriage frame f with bosses 29 for ball bearings, upon which horizontal worm wheels rotate within a casing /t5, the worm wheels being JO; ' 34 ; h— d 2. s__________________________________________! •6 n ■-?w 1" | ■" ’■'•"IE: LL-J .L_J---------------------------------— -—-f provided with an internal thread gearing with the external thread on the ram spindles g. A longitudinal shaft h is dis- posed beside each casing h5, and upon the shaft h worms are mounted within a lateral extension of the casings Ji5, so that they may engage the worm wheels, and thus move the ram spindles g. To prevent rotation of the ram spindles g, arms 30 are provided with lateral lugs 31 to engage the other arm near its boss 32. The motor 33 is mounted in line with the shaft h. and one end of the motor spindle is disposed close to the end of the shaft h, the members 34, 35 of a clutch being mounted on the adjacent ends of the motor spindle and shaft h. to operate or disconnect the ram spindles. Near the end of shaft h or on the boss of the clutch member 34, a toothed pinion 36 is mounted to engage with a toothed wheel 37 on a spindle 38 operating a circuit breaker 39, so that on the rota- tion of the shaft h the circuit breaker 39 prevents an exces- sive movement in either direction being imparted to the ram. A magnetic brake 40 causes the movement of the motor 33 and its motor spindle to be arrested in a known manner. Adjacent the clutch 34, 35 gear is provided to move a second shaft I through which the rail wheels nl (fig. 1) are rotated to move the carriage frame / from place to place. This gear may consist of two toothed wheels 41, 42, the larger 41 engaging in the disengaged position of the clutch with the toothed pinion 351 on the movable member 35 of the clutch, while the second toothed wheel 42 carries the toothed wheel 41. and is mounted on the shaft 60. The toothed wheel 42 engages with a toothed wheel 43 at the end of the shaft I, which is mounted beneath the carriage frame /, and is adapted to move one of the axles 44, by which the carriage