922 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN November 10, 1916. EXPORTS OF COAL, COKE, AHO MANUFACTURED FUEL FROM THE OHITED KINGDOM Daring October and the Ten Completed Months of 1914, 1915 and 1916. To October, 1916. October. Coa]—Small. Coal—Through- and-through (unscreened). Coal—Large. 1 All coal. | Quantity (tons). ; All coal. Value (J3). Tons. £ 1 Tons. £ Tons. £ 1914. 1 1915. 1916. 1914. 1915. 1916 Russia — — — i — — 19,107 2,890 — 12,285 2,802 3,889 4,469 27,465 41,593 : 92,799 143,498 525,357 183,147 124,153 331,866 155,559 189,560 54,615 72,607 21,087 29,1^9 ' 125,573 197,712 197,813 195,514 201,275 113,173 168,130 299’518 Denmark 15,682 22,868 57,570 77,062 1 95,803 160,901 313,873 218,143 169,055 198,263 178,444 260*831 ____ ■ - - . — Netherlands 5,418 5,533 96,121 112,303 : 38,659 53,206 108,851 171,094 140,198 64,950 128,407 171,052 Belgium — — — — — — 82,148 — — 46,524 — — 573,006 607,635 473,822 518,560 i 581,412 821,928 1,006,066 1,602,306 1,628,240 609,308 1,456,606 1,948,123 Portugal, Azores, and Madeira 12,925 13',410 20,459 19,018 i 40,374 62,861 65,434 84,069 73,758 43,793 79’023 ’ 95^289 Spain 23,756 29,865 67,141 90,694 ! 85,469 147,660 171,884 132,192 176,366 113,061 119,809 268 219 Canary Islands 95 229 — — 22,066 23,255 28,824 35,731 22,161 23,565 30,013 23,484 Italy 24,471 26,496 129,629 139,421 ’ 423,957 569,423 705,346 559,534 578,057 466,840 495,984 735 340 Austria-Hungary .. Greece 774 1,360 7,707 11,007 11*,755 21,173 20,632 16,864 20,236 12,952 17,205 33,540 Roumania — — — — — — —- — — Turkey — — — — — — 12,069 — — 9,805 — — Algeria 18,423 18,896 28,925 36,164 ; 16,419 21,753 31,896 66,889 63,767 19,764 55,595 76,813 Portuguese West Africa — —— 2,032 2,133 ; 12,112 17.882 4,166 6,114 14,144 3,613 5,484 20,015 Chile 279 684 — I 1,782 3,050 10,382 385 2,061 8,427 662 3,734 Brazil 2,302 3,454 1,623 1,542 8,253 12,930 71,596 22,274 12,178 60,844 21,137 17,926 Uruguay 2,379 3,425 5,447 8,783 901 968 46,143 18,173 8,727 41,446 16,167 13,176 Argentine Republic 3,996 7,239 — — 15, 96 20,529 173,068 36,553 19,192 147,988 36,423 27,768 Channel Islands 72 119 3,145 4,422 5,273 7,182 12,317 8,924 8,490 8,616 8,837 11,723 Gibraltar ... 11,069 12,332 22',786 30,651 33,680 54,705 15,116 26,744 67.535 10,125 22,068 97’688 Malta 1,626 1,197 6,984 7,213 6,361 7,620 13,193 12,806 14.971 7,941 10,907 16,030 Egypt (including Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) 4,408 5,638 J 13,322 13,986 69,626 95,405 167,770 74,353 87,356 128,800 63,245 115^029 Aden and Dependencies 440 572 ! — — 5,608 5,518 16,967 1,476 6,048 14,984 1,375 6,090 British India ... 157 206 1 — 761 900 12,523 715 918 10,276 655 1,106 Ceylon — — — : — 16,834 — — 14,347 — — Other countries 8,865 9,991 i 2,033 3,048 47,997 71,952 95,122 53,657 58,895 75,152 54,720 84,991 Anthracite 58,938 82,048 — — 85,106 126,683 154.855 313,259 144.044 135,907 392,368 208,731 Steam 682,917 728,023 325,892 391,408 1,610,990 2,329,698 2.939.525 2,376 891 2,6 9.799 1,943,344 2,079,497 3,449,129 Total^ Gas 1,223 1,504 567,976 640,351 22,806 31,302 638,971 621,767 592,005 389.528 473,217 673,157 Household 2,444 3,460 — — 22,868 34,225 136,297 63,451 25.312 86.991 60,2 ’5 37,685 Other sorts 23,125 33,190 93,430 115,050 66 103 74,849 ' 155,178 116,621 42,938 120,968 148J43 Total 768,647 848,225 i 987,298 1,146,809 1,741,836 2,522,011 3,944,497 3,530,546 3,497,781 2,598,708 3,126,257 4,517,045 Total (October 1915) 943,689 789,590 989,744 768,295 1,597,113 1,568,372 — — — — — — Total (October 1914) 1,005,799 494,578 735,114 441,747 2,203,584 1,662,383 — — — — — — Coke — — — — — — 150,879 113,901 113,499 107,629 149.333 214,147 Manufactured fuel — — — — — — 56,005 127,024 96,618 48,492 139,822 144,541 Total of coal, coke & manufactured fuel — — — — . — — 4,151,381 3,771,069 3,708,300 2,754,829 3,415,412 4,875 733 Ten months of 1916. Ten months. Anthracite 828,345 1,041,226 781 586 936,689 1,291,557 1,990,021 1,834,116 1,765,815 I 1,555,100 1,875,458 : 2,333,369 Steam 6,221,417 5,965,862 3,328,701 3,778,236 14,182,166 19,584,505 37,5^8,990 26,371,294 23,732.284 25.933.849 22,524,275 , 29,328,403 Totals Gas 40,086 42,098 5,316,905 5,403,854 143,107 185,864 8,964,721 6,275,672 5,500,098 5,584,056 4,294,414 i 5,631,816 Household 53,189 64,468 830 830 294,129 372,639 1,244,893 927,486 348,148 868,136 821,132 | 437.937 w Other sorts 384,133 406,347 993,486 1,103,734 17,194 20,398 2,2,2,221 1,536,190 1,394,813 1,358,161 ’1,075,693 i 1,530,479 Total 7,527,170 7,520,001 9,640,703 10,287,240 15,573,285 21,454,763 52,060,846 36,914,758 32,711,158 35,239,302 30,590,972 39,262,004 Total for ten months of 1915 9,993,258 7,464,132 9,184,056 6,521,221 17,767,444 16,605,619 — - — — ■ — Total for ten months of 1914 12,501,403 6,560,009 11.169.053 6,868,441 28,390,390 21,810,852 — — — — — — Coke — — — — — — 975,204 798.188 1,263,596 787,820 880.453 2,090,736 Manufactured fuel — — — — — — 1,487,943 1,087,660 1,146,418 1,294,100 1,097,846 1,533,980 Total of coal, coke & manufactured fuel — — ■ _ — — — 54,523,993 38,830,606 35,151,172 37,321,222 32,569,271 42,8'6,720 Note.—The figures in the above tables do not include Admiralty and certain other shipments. at its lower end, is pivotally connected at 17 to a slotted link 18, which is pivotally connected at 19 to am air cushion- ing appliance, the action of which retards the return of the link 8 into engagement with the lug 10 of the pawl 7, after the cancellation of the previous signal, thus providing an interval of time for the step-by-step advance of the ratchet wheel 5 for completing the signal to be given, or at least the transmission of another impulse, before the link 8 can re-engage the lug 10. The air cushioning appliance is of an external inverted cup 20, closed at the top, and adapted to slide vertically up and down telescopically in relation to 10 4 \ 1 2 ■4®: / ZC an internal inverted cup 21, which is open below, and is closed at the top except for a central air port 22. On the top of the cup 21 is a loose disc valve 23, having a central port (not shown) of smaller diameter than the port 22 in the top of the cup 21. The cup 21 is fixed to a bracket 24 belted to a frame bar 25, which in turn is bolted to standards 26 carrying the dial plate 9. In the link 18 is a slot 27, into which extends a pin 28 carried by an arm 29 of the four-armed cross-shaped lever, and extending through a curved slot 30 in the dial plate 9, which lever is set so that when it is in normal position the pin 28 of the arm 29 has a small range of free movement before engaging the upper end of the slot 27 of the link 18. At the outer end of the arm 29 a driving pawl 31 is pivotally mounted on the pin 32, which projects rearwardly from said arm, said pawl 31 having a slot 33, through which passes a stud 34 fixed in the arm, so that the pawl 31 has up and down movement within the limits fixed by the slot 33; and to the outer end of said arm is also connected by a wire 35, a weight w'hich tends to return the cross-shaped lever to its normal position. (Tour claims.) 101663. Apparatus for Distilling Hydrocarbons. G. F. Benhoff, junr., and J. 0. Jensen, both of P.O. Box No. 1013, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.—Relates to distilling apparatus which collects the different grades of hydrocarbons, and delivers the same to a receptacle or back to the still at will; and consists in the construction of the condenser column and the connections thereto, whereby the construction is cheapened and greater cooling efficiency obtained. Fig. 1 is an eleva- tion showing the condenser column and also the worm tank in vertical section; fig. 2 is an enlarged cross section on the line x—x of fig. 1. The condenser column is formed of a plurality of groups of vertical tubes A, B, C, and a series of annular drums D, E, F. G-, disposed one above the other, and constructed to form traps for the condensate at different heights on the condenser, in which said condensate accumu- lates and is drawn off, as hereinafter described. The tubes of lowest group A communicate with the head of drum D, and extend upward through the bottom of drum E for a sufficient distance to trap liquid in drum E, and prevent the same running down to drum D through said tubes. In like manner the tubes of group B are interposed between and connected to drums E, F, and the tubes of group 0 are interposed between and connected to drums F, G-. The groups of tubes may be enclosed in sheet metal shells H, provided, if desired, with openings J for air circulation, or said shells may be imperforate, and the cooling air, after passing in between the tubes of group A, and becoming heated, may rise through the central openings in the drums, and finally escape at a chimney K formed by upwardly extending the inner wrall of drum G. The tubes present a large cooling area, to which is to be added the area of the exposed drum surfaces. In the bottoms of the drums D, E, F, are outlet openings, which, by short pipes, connect with unions or couplings L, M, N. To each union is connected pipes; 1 connected to union L, 2 connected to union M, and 3 connected to union N, all leading into and through the worm tank 0, which contains cooling water, and thence to a delivery receptacle. In said pipes are valves 4, 5, 6. A return pipe 7 connected to union L leads back to the still P. The pipe 8 connected to union M is connected to pipe 7. The pipe 9 connected to union N is also connected to pipe 7. In pipes 8 and 9 are valves 10 and 11. A drain pipe 12 is con- nected to pipe 7, and provided with a valve 13. In pipe 7 between pipe 12 and pipe 8 is a valve 14. The still P is provided with a firebox Q below, and with means for forcing -T~ipsl O F ; ’terns”- nlh n-nl U air into the hydrocarbon to be distilled, said means here being an air or gas pump R connected to a perforated pipe S, which enters the top of the still, and extends into the liquid. The still is connected by the vapour pipe 15 to drum D. To the top drum G is connected a pipe 16, which is always open, and which leads to and through the worm tank O to delivery. By suitably manipulating the valves 4, 5, 6. on the delivery side of the condenser column, and 14, 10, and 11, on the return side, valve 13 being closed, the condensate received in the drums can be caused to pass through the worm tank 0 to delivery or to return to the still for re-dis- tillation or for mingling with the existing' contents of said still. (Four claims.) For complete list of New Patents connected with the Coal and Iron Trades see page 924.