Specification of William Naylor : consuming smoke.

  • Naylor, W. (William), active 1902
Date:
1866
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Credit: Specification of William Naylor : consuming smoke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Naylor s Improvements in the Prevention or Consumption of Smoke. with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term 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 “ Improvements in the Prevention or Consumption op Smoke,’* upon the condition (amongst 5 others) that I, the said William Naylor, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the 10 said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Naylor, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per¬ formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the 15 letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:— My said Invention has for its object the prevention or consumption of the smoke heretofore evolved from reverberatory, puddling, re-heating, and air furnaces, and consists according to one method of carrying out my Invention in forming an air chamber or chambers or conduit or conduits along the neck and 20 roof or sides or bottom of furnaces of the above description, the inner side of such chambers or conduits being divided from the interior of the furnace or neck of the furnace by a thin slab of fire-brick or other good refractory material, in - order that as much heat as possible may be imparted to the air therein. One end of these conduits or chambers nearest the stack or chimney is connected 25 to an air inducer, which consists of a pipe provided with one or more steam jets, and with an orifice for the admission of air, such orifice being provided with a self-acting valve, which is sufficiently weighted to close or nearly close when the steam jets are not on, but to open by the inrush of air to the pipe when the steam jets are applied. The opposite end of this pipe separates 30 into two branches, the one branch being connected to the mouth of the hot air conduit or chamber above referred to, so as to convey air thereto, whilst the other branch is connected to an inverted syphon which is partly filled with water, such syphon serving to collect and carry off any water of condensation which may be produced in the pipe, and thereby prevent it from being blown 35 into the hot-air chamber or conduit. By this means a powerful current of air is caused to pass through the hot air chambers or conduits, and such air ‘ V. after being highly heated in its passage through the said chambers or conduits enters the furnace through apertures for that purpose and mixes with the^
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