Specification of John Jobson : apparatus for consuming smoke.

  • Jobson, John.
Date:
1861
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of John Jobson : apparatus for consuming smoke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 A.D. 1861.—N° 972. Provisional Specification. Jobsons Improvements in Apparatus for Consuming Smoke. the fuel fed in upon the bars, the apparatus is returned into the furnace, the supplemental bars return to their position beyond the bridge, and the bright fire is received upon the fresh charge. As this is being consumed, the stoker by means of the spur wheels and pinions occasionally raises the front bars towards the horizontal position until a fresh charge is required. The smoke 5 from the fresh fuel is thus caused to pass through a bright fire, and the operation of stoking mufch less frequently required. I do not confine myself to the exact mechanical appliances herein named, for working the apparatus. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1861.