Specification of Sutton Thomas Wood : applying steam : applying and using condensed water : constructing boilers : heating the same.

  • Wood, Sutton Thomas.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Sutton Thomas Wood : applying steam : applying and using condensed water : constructing boilers : heating the same. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wood's Impts. in the Application of Steam, Construction of Boilers, Qc. either by causing water, liquors, worts, or other solutions to be placed in vessels or other hollow bodies which are made to surround or*to be in contact with the copper, boiler, or vessel in which water or liquor are heated or boiled, so as that the steam arising from such copper or boiler may heat the same; or by con¬ veying the steam by means of pipes, tubes, or other hollow bodies to the sides, 5 top, bottom, or any other part of the vessel or hollow body in which the water or liquor is or may be contained; or by conveying the steam through the water or liquor by means of pipes or tubes, as aforesaid, or by any other means, so as that the water or liquor required to be heated may be heated by steam. My fifth application of steam is that of condensing such steam as arises 10 from the coppers, pans, or boilers used in trades and manufactures, which I do not only with but also without the power of the steam or fire engine, either by means of cold water or other liquor, or by causing the steam to flow through cold pipes, funnels, or hollow bodies, or to come in contact with cold bodies, or by any other means, and of applying the hot water produced by such 15 condensed steam to the various purposes of trades and manufactures. Let it be remembered also that I apply the hot water which is produced by such steam as is or may be condensed by the power of the steam engine to the like purposes of trades and manufactures. My sixth application of steam is the application of that steam which arises 20 from sugars, unfermented worts, and all other unfermented solutions, which I not only apply to any of the purposes above mentioned, and condense the same and use the liquor produced by such condensed steam, but I also cause such liquor as is or may be produced by the condensed steam of sugar, unfermented worts, and other unfermented solutions, to be put into a state of fermentation 25 and to pass through the process of distillation, and the liquor produced thereby I use either for the purposes of trades or manufactures, or for any other purpose to which it may be applied. My first improvement in the constructing and adapting of coppers or boilers consists of the following principle, namely, in causing that heat which is 30 generally absorbed and lost in the sides, back, and other parts of such fires or furnaces as are used in trades and manufactures, to be applied to the heating or boiling of water or liquor in other coppers or vessels than those which are generally used for the purposes of trades or manufactures, so that a greater quantity of water or liquor may be heated and boiled, either for the purposes 35 of the trade or manufacture or for any other purpose, and the process of the trade or manufacture may be thereby greatly forwarded without any extra consumption of fuel; and this I do by adapting, connecting, or applying coppers, boilers, or vessels, near to or in contact with such fires or furnaces,