Burning Straw or Analogous Fuel.
Year: 1885

page_text: Burning Straw or Analogous Fuel.
I JAMES YATE JOHNSON of 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this- Invention which has been
communicated to me from abroad by Hugo Graepel of Budapest in the Empire of
Austria Engineer to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object to provide means in connection with furnaces
or fire boxes for burning straw or analogous fuel and consists in providing a water
reservoir, container, or box, in or attached to, or forming part of the ash pit, but
with a shelf or partition, or division, so that the fuel is kept separate from the
water. This arrangement may be applied with advantage to the said furnaces or
fire boxes generally but is especially applicable to the furnace or fire box provided
with the improvements described in the Specification of my application for Letters
Patent No 2131 of 16th February 1885.

page_text: Improvements in or Connected with Furnaces or Fire-DOXO8 10г
Burning Straw or Analogous Fuel.
I JAMES YATE JOHNSON of 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this Invention which has been
communicated to me from abroad by Hugo Graepel of Budapest in the Empire of
Austria and in what manner. the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This Invention has for its object to provide means in connection with furnaces
or fire-boxes for burning straw or analogous fuel and consists in providing a water-
reservoir, container or box in or attached to or forming part of the ash pit, but
with a shelf, support, partition, or division so that the fuel is kept separate from
the water. This arrangement may be applied with advantage to the said furnaces
or fire-boxes generally, but is especially applicable to the furnace or fire box
provided with the Improvements described in the Specification of Letters Patent
N° 2131 of 16th February 1885.
The accompanying Drawing illustrates three modes of applying this Invention
to furnaces or fire boxes of the kind mentioned. Figure 1 shews a furnace or fire
box provided with air inlets as described with reference to Figure 4 of the Drawings
attached to the Specification of the aforesaid Patent 2131 of 1885 and having in
connection with the ash box improvements according to the present Invention.
Water is contained in the space at a in the lower part or ash pit of the fire box
and just above the water level is a shelf or division y projecting from the forward
end of the fire box to near the rearward end where its edge is preferably turned
slightly upward. The said shelf extends from side to side or nearly so of the fire
box. Figure 2 shews a modified arrangement. The furnace or fire box illustrated
in this figure is (as far as the parts other than those provided or arranged according
to this Invention are concerned) similar to that illustrated in Figure 1 of the
drawings attached to the Specification of my said Patent Number 2131 of 1885
but the arrangement according to my present Invention is provided in that the ash
box is made with a deep receptacle at its rearward end for the reception of the
water as shewn and shallow at the forward part the shelf at y being made as a
continuation into the receptacle x of the bottom of the shallow part as shewn in
the Drawing. Figure 3 shews an arrangement wherein the shelf y is simply in
the form of what may be termed at table supported in the ash box by means of
legs or supports as shewn. Of course in all the arrangements illustrated fire bars
are dispensed with. It will be evident from these examples that the details of the
arrangements can be varied without departing from the nature of the Invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
First-In or in connection with furnaces or fire boxes for the combustion of
straw or analogous fuel the combination of a water reservoir, container or box with

page_text: a shelf, table, support, partition, or division so that the fuel and water are kept
separate substantially as herein before described.
Second-The several arrangements and combinations of parts constituting in
furnaces or fire boxes means for containing water and for maintaining the fuel
separate from the water substantially as severally illustrated in Figure ‘1 in
Figure 2 and in Figure 3 of the accompanying Drawings.
Third: The combination with furnaces for burning straw or analogous fuel and
provided with air inlets as described in the Specification of the aforesaid Patent
Number 2131 of 1885 of means for containing water and for keeping the fuel
separate from the water substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings,
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