Specification of Richard Leake and Matthew Sykes : furnaces.

  • Leake, Richard.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Specification of Richard Leake and Matthew Sykes : furnaces. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1859, 5 th March. N° 588. Furnaces. LETTERS PATENT to Richard Leake and Matthew Sykes, both of Barnsley, in the County of York, for the Invention of “ Improvements in Furnaces for Consuming Smoke and Generating Heat, Parts of which Improve¬ ments ARE APPLICABLE TO FURNACES GENERALLY.” Sealed the 31st August 1859, and dated the 5th March 1859. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Leake and Matthew Sykes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 5th March 1859. We, Richard Leake and Matthew Sykes, both of Barnsley, in the County 5 of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “Improvements in Furnaces for Consuming Smoke and Generating Heat, Parts of which Improvements are applicable to Furnaces generally,” to be as follows: — This Invention has for its objects the prevention of smoke and generating heat in the furnaces of steam engine boilers, boiling pans, or other kinds of 10 furnaces, and is an improvement upon our former Invention (for which Letters Patent were granted to us on the 1st day of May 1857, and numbered 1233), being based on the fact that f (by weight, of water is oxygen, and bulk for bulk, water is 825 times heavier than common air, so that when f is taken from the gross weight of water it gives 660 times more oxygen in one inch of 15 water than is contained in atmospheric air of the same bulk; and when water (in proper quantity) is introduced to the fires in furnaces of steam boilers through the spaces between the fire bars, instead of having a cooling effect it will give off a large quantity of gases, and produce a more intense heat than