IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GAS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Chandler of 104 Newington Causeway in the
County of Surrey Gas Engineer for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Chandler at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th September 1882.
"
SAMUEL CHANDLER of N° 104 Newington Causeway in the County of Surrey
Gas Engineer IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF GAS,"
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus used in the manu-
facture of gas and relates more particularly to an improved mode of constructing
materials for scrubbing or washing gas such as that now used in connection with
Patents secured to Messrs Kirkham, Hulett & Chandler and especially in the case
of one Nod 4928 and dated 29th December 1877.
In the Patent mentioned segments of sheet iron or other suitable material are
placed together to form clusters with spaces left for the passage of gas and I have
devised a plan whereby these segments are much more conveniently placed
together so as to be more easily and simply separated and replaced if and when
they require to be cleaned.
This object I accomplish in the following manner:-I first join two outside
plates by means of suitable straps of iron so as to form as it were a basket or
receptacle just the width to contain any given number of sheets and at the lower..
part of this I also place a support into this I then place or slide the sheets which
find a support on the lower stretcher whilst the sides are secured by the side straps
which join the two outer frames. I then place other cross straps on the top of
the thinner segments which being turned up at either end secure the whole intact
by means of bolts passing through the two frame plates. The consequence is that
the lower ends of the segments being smaller than the upper it is only necessary to
remove the top straps, turn the bundle upside down and the whole scrubbing
material will fall out singly and when cleansed be ready for replacement.
[Price 6d l
Hitherto

page_text: this has not been so easily quickly and inexpensively accomplished as rivets have
been passed through all the segments to make them secure and the sheets, somewhat
damaged in the operation of getting them apart.
This invention is not confined to the apparatus only now mentioned but is
applicable to other machinery for washing and scrubbing gas under similar
circumstances nor is it absolutely requisite to apply the "basket" spoken of as
even a whole pair of circles could be divided by means of straps of iron into
sections and bars introduced for each segment to rest upon across the lower part
and the scrubbing material fixed direct into the same the whole being secured at
the top by straps as before named. In this case the only difference would be that
when the straps were removed the segments would be drawn out in lieu of
dropping out but I prefer the former mode of carrying out my invention.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor filed by the said Samuel Chandler in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th April 1883.
SAMUEL CHANDLER of 104 Newington Causeway in the County of Surrey
Gas Engineer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF GAS
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus used in the manu-
facture of gas and relates more particularly to an improved mode of constructing
materials for scrubbing or washing gas such as that now used in connection with
patents secured to Messrs Kirkman Hulett & Chandler and is specially in the case
of one N° 4928 and dated 29th December 1877.
In the patent mentioned segments of sheet iron or other suitable material are
placed together to form clusters with spaces left for the passage of gas and I have
devised a plan whereby the segments are much more conveniently placed together
so as to be more easily and simply separated and replaced if and when they
require to be cleaned.
This object I accomplish in the following manner. I first join two outside
plates by means of suitable straps of iron so as to form as it were a basket
or receptacle just the width to contain any given number of sheets and at the
lower part of this I also place a support. I then place or slide the sheets which
find a support on the lower stretcher whilst the sides are secured by the side, straps
which join the two outer frames. I then place other cross straps on the top of the
thinner segments which being turned up at either end secure the whole intact by
means of bolts passing through the two frame plates. The consequence is that the
lower ends of the segments being smaller than the upper it is only necessary to
remove the top straps turn the bundle upside down and the whole scrubbing
material will fall out singly and when cleaned be ready for replacement. Hitherto
this has not been so easily quickly and inexpensively accomplished as rivets have
been passed through all the segments to make them secure and the sheets somewhat
damaged in the operation of getting them apart.
This invention is not confined to the apparatus only now mentioned but is
applicable to other machinery for washing and scrubbing gas under similar
circumstances nor is it absolutely requisite to apply the "basket" spoken of as
even a whole pair of circles could be divided by means of straps of iron into.
sections and bars introduced for each segment to rest upon across the lower part
and the scrubbing material fixed direct into the same the whole being secured at
the top by straps as before named.
In this case the only difference would be that when the straps were removed the
segments would be drawn out in lieu of dropping out but I prefer the former inode
of carrying out my invention.
In order that my Invention may be better understood I will now describe the
same by reference to the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 shews the segments of sheet iron in clusters and Figure 2 shews a
section of same at A B and the numbers 1 and 2 shew the top and bottom.
Figure 3 shews the outside plate or section of frame plate a number of which
would form a circle.
C is a slotted hole for the bolt or bar (Figure 4) to pass through the bolt or
bar also passes through a corresponding plate to form the receptacle for the sheets,
the width varying according to the number.
After the segments of sheet iron are placed on the bolts the bolt or bar (Figure 4)
is placed upon the top and fits into the slot C and is secured to the frame plate by
a strap marked D. Figure 2 which holds the whole secure.

page_text: E (Figure 3) is a strap which is fixed to the frame plate at any required width
and secures an opposite plate exactly the same to form a basket into which the
segment sheets slide.
Having now described my Invention and the manner in which I carry it into
effect I would have it understood that I claim :-
The constructing receptacles for segment sheets of scrubbing material for washing
and scrubbing gas and the securing of such segment sheets in the manner
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
In witness whereof I the said Samuel Chandler have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty, three.