Specification of George Kent : smoke consuming apparatus.

  • Kent, George
Date:
1872
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of George Kent : smoke consuming apparatus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Kent's Improved Smoke Consuming Apparatus. pass tubes for the passage of atmospheric air through the ordinary tubes of a multitubular boiler or through the water space thereof, one end of the said air tubes leading into the combustion chamber and the other end being open to the atmosphere. And as regards land boilers I arrange and pass the aforesaid air tubes through the flues from the 5 furnace into the back of the boiler and along the inner shell thereof, and I so arrange the said air tubes as that one end thereof is opened to the atmosphere and the other end led behind the bridge of the furnace. The object and intention of this Invention being to so place and 10 arrange air tubes in boilers as that they shall pass down or along the the combustion chamber thereof in order that the said tubes may get so intensely heated that the air in its passage through them shall be thoroughly superheated; and this intensely heated air coming into contact with the smoke and gases as they leave the fire-bars will cause the smoke and gases to ignite and thereby effect consumption of the smoke, and further, in order that a very considerable surface of air tubing may be exposed to the action of the heat in the combustion chamber, I propose to bend or arrange the said tubing in a tortuous or zig-zag direction. 20 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by the said George Kent in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th July 1872. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, George Kent, of Buckland, in the County of Hants, send greeting. 25 0 WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc¬ cessors, give and grant unto me, the said George Kent, Her special 30 licence that I, the said George Kent, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Kent, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
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