Specification of Joseph Rayner : apparatus for generating and conducting heat by means of fluids, applicable to certain manufacturing processes.

  • Rayner, Joseph.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Joseph Rayner : apparatus for generating and conducting heat by means of fluids, applicable to certain manufacturing processes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rayners Improvements in Apparatus and Machinery for Conducting Heat, §c. Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being there¬ unto had, will more fully and at large appear. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Joseph Rayner, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and 5 the manner in which the same is to be performed, is fully described and ascertained as follows (that is to say) :— My improvements consist in the Invention of the application of an appa¬ ratus for generating and conducting heat by the circulation of heated fluids to the process of manufacturing of woollen and other cloths, and of polishing 10 and finishing the same, by which certain improvements are effected in the said process; also in the Invention of the application of apparatus and machinery to such other useful purposes as are herein-after described and exhibited in the accompanying Drawings. Figure 1 represents a section of a generator or boiler, which may be constructed of cast or wrought iron, or any suitable 15 material, secured by a safety valve and placed on its end, suspended by parts projecting into the brickwork, as shewn in the Figure. The fire is placed under the end, and the flues are constructed to circulate spirally or otherwise around the generator, which, by passing, over a large portion of the surface of the generator, will effect considerable saving in the consumption of fuel. To 20 the generator may also be adapted and connected a pneumatic apparatus, which will effect a more complete combustion of the fuel, and a consequent saving of expence. This pneumatic apparatus may be a pair of bellows of the usual construction, or a cylindric or tubular blowing apparatus, as circumstances may render convenient. The generater is charged quite full of fluid (water being 25 preferable in ordinary cases on account of its cheapness) and heated to the required temperature. Should any loss of the fluid arise from leakage at the joints or otherwise, it is supplied by the cistern a. To the projecting flanches or nozzles b, c, pipes are connected for conveying the heated fluid, d, d, d> represents a safety valve, lever, and weight; c, e, a tube or indicator, by which 30 the degree of heat the fluid has obtained may be knowm ; it will also serve as an air tube when the generater is charged with fluid, and will also indicate the quantity of water in the generater. ff represent the furnace or grate bars; the hoppers, by which the fire is supplied with fuel. To the generater thus described a pipe is attached at the nozzle b, which may be conveyed in any 35 direction, and made to communicate with cylinders, the exterior casing of wood vats, or other contrivances, and is connected with a return pipe entering at the nozzle c, and which will cause the entire circulation of the heated fluid, which may thus be applied to furnace dying, heating stocks of fulling mills, or any