Improvements in Apparatus for Heating, Cooling and Mixing Liquids or Chemicals, Drying or Superheating and Condensing Steam.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Heating, Cooling and Mixing Liquids
or Chemicals, Drying or Superheating and Condensing Steam.
I, JOSEPH WHITELEY, of Clowes Street, Chapel Street, Salford, in the County of
Lancaster, Pattern-maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows;―
This invention relates to improvements in the rotary type of heaters for feed
water and other liquids for which Letters Patent No. 19383, dated October 12th
1894, were granted to Richard Henry Turner and myself, the object being to
provide greater simplicity in construction and facilities for varying the size, trans-
port, erection and cleansing of the same, as well as to extend its use for heating,
cooling and mixing liquids or chemicals, drying or superheating and condensing
'steam.
To this end I form the hollow axis of the apparatus herein before referred to,
longitudinally in section, so as to be capable of being bolted together in any desired
number. The said sections I form externally triangular, square or of other
suitable angular form, say hexangular or the like, with ports across
each corner and adapted to communicate with ŉ or other suitably shaped
pipes, bolted thereto. "Two or more of the said pipes as the case may be, are
secured upon the said section in a circle, whilst the last one is fixed at right or
any other suitable angle thereto, one member being bolted to the first section and
the other to the adjacent one, so as to form communication between the two
sections successively.
It will thus readily be seen that by increasing the number of the said sections
or length of the circulating pipes any size of apparatus according to the capacity
required, can be built rapidly.
When using my improved apparatus for heating feed water and drying or super-
heating steam, I employ same inside a chamber through which the hot
gases from
the furnace flue pass to the chimney in the usual way and the pipes of the
apparatus I furnish with scrapers which are loose thereon and work by gravitation
as described in the specification belonging to the Patent hereinbefore referred to.
When using my improved apparatus for cooling liquids, or chemicals or for
condensing steam, I employ same in an open or closed vessel wholly or partly
filled with water and without scrapers on the said pipes, whilst when using same
för mixing, the said vessel or chamber may be dispensed with.
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page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Heating, Cooling and Mixing Liquids
or Chemicals, Drying or Superheating and Condensing Steam.
I, JOSEPH WHITELEY, of Clowes Street, Chapel Street, Salford, in the County of
Lancaster, Pattern-maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in the rotary type of heaters for feed
water and other liquids for which Letters Patent No. 19383, dated Oct. 12th,
1894, were granted to Richard Henry Turner and myself, the object being to
provide greater simplicity in construction and facilities for varying the size, trans-
port, erection and cleansing of the same, as well as to extend its use for heating,
cooling and mixing liquids or chemicals, drying or superheating and condensing
steam.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indi-
cating like parts in the various figures, Fig. 1 being a vertical section, Fig. 2 a
cross section and Fig. 3 a plan of my improved apparatus shown adapted for cooling
liquids or chemicals or for condensing steam. Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are partly
sections and partly views of details Fig. 6 being a section through line A-A of
Fig. 4 and Fig. 9 through line B-B of Fig. 7.
In carrying out my invention and referring to the figures generally I form the
hollow axis of the apparatus herein before referred to, longitudinally in sections
or blocks a, so as to be capable of being secured together by bolts b or other suitable
means, in any desired number. The sections or blocks a I may form externally
triangular, square, hexangular or of other suitable angular shape, in the present
instance, square.
In order to set the said sections or blocks square with each other a frame c is
placed between each two sections or blocks, fitting half way into the same, as
shown in Figs. 4 and 5, or in lieu of the said frame projections may be cast on one
section or block adapted to fit into the adjacent one as will be readily understood.
Each of the said sections or blocks a has ports d formed across their corners, see
Figs. 4, 5, and 6, which are adapted to communicate with ☐ or other suitably
shaped pipes e, e¹ bolted or otherwise secured thereto. Two or more of the pipes c,
as the case may be, are secured upon each of the sections or blocks a in a circle,
whilst the pipe e¹ is fixed at a right or any other suitable angle to the pipes e, one
member being bolted or otherwise secured to the one section or block a and the
other member to the adjacent one, see more particularly Figs. 1, 2 and 3, so as to
form communication between each two sections or blocks a successively.
The outer sections or blocks a of the apparatus, see Figs. 7, 8 and 9, have each
a port d' which leads to the centre of the axis of the apparatus and are formed
with or coupled to the inlet and outlet pipes f and g respectively.
In some cases I may fix to the section or block a at the inlet and outlet end
of the axis of the apparatus a safety valve h, respectively, a port h¹ being formed in
the respective section or block to communicate with the inlet and outlet ports d',
see more particularly Fig. 9.
The liquid which enters through the inlet pipe f circulates first through the
pipes e arranged in a circle on the respective section or block then passes through
the cross pipe el to the pipes e of the adjacent section or block and so on suc-
cessively until it reaches the outlet pipe g.
It will thus be readily understood that by increasing the number of the said

page_text: sections or blocks or the length of the said circulating pipes any size of apparatus
according to the capacity required, can be built rapidly.
When using my improved apparatus for heating feed water and drying or super-
heating steam, I employ it inside a chamber through which the hot gases from the
furnace flue pass to the chimney in the usual way and the pipes of the apparatus I
furnish with scrapers which may be chains placed loose thereon and work by
gravitation, or other suitable means may be employed as described in the specifica-
tion belonging to the Patent hereinbefore referred to.
When using my improved apparatus for cooling liquids, or chemicals or for
condensing steam, I eniploy same in an open (or closed) vessel i as shown in the
drawing, wholly or partly filled with water and without the said scrapers, whilst
when using same for mixing, the said vessel or chamber may be dispensed with.
In the latter case the inlet of the apparatus is connected to a pipe having a
number of branches each of which leads to a receptacle containing a different
liquid or chemical. The said liquids or chemicals are simultaneously admitted into
the inlet pipe of the apparatus and owing to the rotation of the circulating pipes
are caused to thoroughly intermix during the passage through the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is:-
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In apparatus for heating, cooling and mixing liquids or chemicals, drying or
superheating and condensing steam, of the type herein before referred to, construct-
ing the axis of the apparatus in sections a, secured together and each formed with
ports d, d adapted to communicate with circulating pipes e, e¹, the pipes e being
arranged on the said sections in a circle and the pipes el crosswise thereto, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated his 10th
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F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.