Improvements in steam disinfecting and like apparatus / [Anders Borch Reck].

  • Reck, Anders Borch.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Improvements in steam disinfecting and like apparatus / [Anders Borch Reck]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nc 19,850 A.!). 1895 Date of Ap jlication, 22nd Oct., 1895—Accepted, 7th Dec,, 1895 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Steam Disinfecting* and like Apparatus. T, Anders Borch Reck, of Gothersgade 155, Copenhagen, Denmark, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:— 5 By stationarv steam disinfecting apparatus for disinfecting clothing, bedding articles, and the like by steam it is often very important that the whole apparatus, disinfecting chamber and boiler combined takes as little room as possible, and that they may be transported in a complete state, so that the erection of the whole apparatus only consists in connecting it with a chimney. More so is a compact 19 arrangement of disinfecting chamber and boiler important by apparatus, that are destined to be transported from one place to another on its own wheels (portable apparatus). It has been tried to solve this problem in different manners, but the forms offered at present are not without defects. Either they are only adapted to be 15 worked at about atmospheric pressure of the steam, being thus rather slow in their action, or they are costly to make, or they can not be built with doors in both ends, because the boiler has to be placed at one end of the disinfecting chamber. The latter defect is very great, as in this case the disinfecting chamber must be filled and emptied from the same place, so that the disinfected articles are 20 exposed to being infected again when taken out. My construction avoids all the liere mentioned defects; it can be built to work at any steam pressure; it is not costly to make, and the disinfector can have doors in both ends. This is obtained by dividing the boiler into two receptacles, an upper one and a lower one. I he lower is acted upon by the fire and placed under the disinfecting chamber. 1 he 25 upper receptacle, that serves for separating water and steam is ordinarily placed directly over the disinfecting chamber. Pipes connect the two receptacles so that the steam developed in the lower receptacle freely mounts into the upper receptacle^while the water brought along with the steam to the upper receptacle freely can return from here to the lower. 3(i In my drawing figure 1 and figure 2 represent two different \citical sections through my disinfecting apparatus, d is the disinfecting chamber in which the ai tides are disinfected by steam, a and b are the two receptacles, which in connection with the two pipes r\ and r2 form the boiler, s is the steam pipe from the boiler to the disinfecting chamber, t is an exhaust cock on the disinfecting chamber, 35 through which the air can be blown out of the said chamber, c is the smoke tube from the boiler. The apparatus will act in the following manner :— When a fire is built on the grate g of the lower receptacle a, the water in this will be heated and partly be transformed to steam, this goes to the receptacle b 40 through the pipe rr The water carried along with-steam will sink down again to a through the pipe r2, while the steam through the valve on the pipe s can be led into the disinfecting chamber d, where it first expels the air through t, and then acts upon the clothing and other articles laid into the chamber. Dotted lines indicate on the drawing how the apparatus can be provided with 45 axle e wheel h and poles/ when it is wished to render it easily portable. It will be seen that on account of the construction of the apparatus it is easy to lead [ Price 8d.]