Specification of George Kent : smoke consuming apparatus.

  • Kent, George
Date:
1872
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Credit: Specification of George Kent : smoke consuming apparatus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kent's Improved Smoke Consuming Apparatus. therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “An Improved Arrangement of Smoke Consuming Apparatus,” upon the condition 5 (amongst others) that I, the said George Kent, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to he performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal 10 Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Kent, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to he performed, to he particularly described and ascertained in and by the 15 following statement, that is to say:— This Invention relates to an improved mechanical arrangement for introducing heated air into the combustion chambers of steam boilers for consuming the smoke and effecting more perfect combustion of the gases formed in the furnaces thereof. 20 The following are examples of the application of this Invention to marine and land boilers :—In applying it to marine boilers I propose to 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 25 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 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 30 furnace. The object and intention of this Invention being to so place and arrange air tubes in boilers as that they shall pass down or along 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 35 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
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