Specification of Charles William Ward : apparatus for the condensation of vapours, &c.

  • Ward, Charles William.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Charles William Ward : apparatus for the condensation of vapours, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ward's Improved Method of Changing Smoke, Qc. into various Useful Materials. mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy their said licence, power, privi- legde, and advantage therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Charles William Ward, my executors, adhiors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next & immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat 5 and ended according to the Statute in that case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said Charles William Ward, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru¬ ment in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled 10 in the High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and imme¬ diately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear. 15 NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles William Ward, in compliance with the proviso in the Letters Patent contained, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention of A Method of changing the Smoke or Vapor arising from the Combustion of many kinds of Substances into various useful Materials according to the Substances burnt, “ as follows” :— 20 All smoke or vapor from the combustion of different bodies is capable of being decomposed or condensed, but as the vapors according to the substance they proceed from require to pass through cold water, the steam of boiling water, or to be confined some time in cold vessells before they can be con¬ densed, the change cannot be effected by any method hitherto known, because 25 none of them are capable of making the vapor pass thro’ water, or of con¬ fining it long enough for it to condense without choaking up the draught of air necessary for the burning of the fires. My Invention supplies this defect by making a constant draught from the fires, and causing the vapor to pass through or be retained in proper vessells a sufficient time for it to condense; 30 this is affected by connecting the aperture of the chimney or chimneys with the condensing vessells or chambers by means of tubes or pipes; then it is to be placed either between this connection or behind the condensing vessells; any machine or machines whose principle depends upon the known property of all fluids rushing in to fill up the vacuum caused by their action, that is to say, 35 t air pumps, water pumps, ventilators, bellows, air machines, &c.; these, how¬ ever different their constructions, have all one common principle, and therefore the application of them or others depending upon the said principle to effect the purpose above mentioned, will be an infringement upon my said Patent;