Improvements in Apparatus for Separating Grease from Exhaust Steam Passing from a Steam Engine to a Condenser.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 17th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 10th Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Separating Grease from Exhaust
Steam Passing from a Steam Engine to a Condenser.
We ERNEST FREDRICK WHALLEY WILKINSON of 5 Rushton Villas,
Thornbury, Bradford in the County of York Engineer and ALBERT ARTHUR
SMITH of the Ramshill Hotel Scarborough in the said County of York Brewery
Secretary do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of the invention is to provide apparatus for extracting grease from
exhaust steam passing from a steam engine to a condenser.
For this purpose the steam exhaust pipe from the engine is made to open into
one side of an enlarged chamber, and on the opposite side of the chamber an outlet
is provided for steam to pass away to the condenser. The steam as it enters the
chamber is directed downwards away from the outlet and is preferably further
delayed in its passage through the chamber by perforated baffle plates fixed across
it. The oil together with some of the steam is condensed within the chamber and
can be drawn off during the time that the engine is running by a reciprocating
steam pump fixed to the outer side of the chamber or can be drawn off by a pump
driven by a belt or by an ejector or in other ways. A drain cock is also provided
at the bottom of the chamber for drawing off any oil and water when the engine is
not running.
Dated this 15th day of November 1895.
ERNEST FREDRICK WHALLEY WILKINSON.
ALBERT ARTHUR SMITH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Separating Grease from Exhaust
Steam Passing from a Steam Engine to a Condenser.
We, ERNEST FREDRICK WHALLEY WILKINSON, of 5 Rushton Villas,
Thornbury, Bradford, in the County of York, Engineer, and ALBERT ARTHUR
SMITH of the Ramshill Hotel, Scarborough, in the said County of York, Brewery
Secretary, 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 :-
The object of the invention is to provide apparatus for extracting grease from
exhaust steam passing from a steam engine to a condenser.
For this purpose the steam exhaust pipe from the engine is made to open into
one side of an enlarged chamber, and on the opposite side of the chamber an outlet
is provided for steam to pass away to the condenser.
The steam as it enters the
chamber is directed downwards away from the outlet and is further delayed in its
passage through the chamber by perforated baffle plates fixed across it. The oil
together with some of the steam is condensed within the chamber and is drawn off
during the time that the engine is running by a reciprocating steam pump fixed to
the outer side of the chamber or can be drawn off by a pump driven by a belt or
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page_text: by an ejector or in other ways. A drain cock is also provided at the bottom of
the chamber for drawing off any oil and water when the engine is not running.
The drawing shows a vertical section of an apparatus constructed according to
this invention.
A is the chamber, B the steam inlet, C the outlet, D a pump driven by the steam
cylinder E, F is a drain cock for drawing off any oil and water when the engine is
not running, G G are baffle plates in the chamber and H is a man hole.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we wish it to be under-
stood that we are aware that separators having the inlet pipe curved downwards
have before been proposed as also have separators having perforated baffle
plates and we make no claim to these features separately but what we claim is :-
1. The combination of the downwardly curving inlet pipe on one side of the
chamber, the perforated baffle plates the outlet on the other side of the chamber,
and the pump or ejector for extracting oil.
2. Apparatus for separating grease from exhaust steam substantially as described
and shown in the drawings.
Dated this 29th day of July 1896.
E. F. W. WILKINSON.
A. A. SMITH.