Sawdust Bricks.

Progress, Volume XIV, Issue 12, 1 August 1919, Page 578

Sawdust Bricks.

Sawdust bricks for fuel are just now receiving close attention at the Forest Products Laboratories of the United State. The shorage of coal problem has caused a, revival of interest in the possibilities of successfully briquetting sawdust and shavings so they will compete commercially with other fuels, and thus ai'd in the relief work which may become necessary.

, In the past such processes have been 'successful so far as heating qualities were concerned, but have been rather too expensive, so that there is no established industry of the - sort in the United States at the present time.

The usual method of compressing sawdust into briquettes is by the aid of pitch or tar as a binder in suitable machines. At one time machines were used in which, instead of a pitch binder, string was rapped around the briquette, and held the sawdust in shape until it was used for fuel.

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