An Improved INJECTOR FOR Supplying WATER TO BOILERS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Albert Dixon, of Sheffield, in the County
of York, for the Invention of “An Improved INJECTOR FOR Supplying
WATER TO BOILERS." -A communication from abroad by Hubert
Sealed the 18th February 1876, and dated the 6th September 1875.'
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Albert Dixon
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 6th September 1875.
I, ALFRED ALBERT DIXON, of Sheffield, in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
INJECTOR FOR SUPPLYING WATER TO BOILERS," (a communication to me from
abroad by Hubert Rougy, of 61, Rue Goffart, Bruxelles, in Belgium,) tọ
be as follows:-
1
This Invention relates to certain improvements in injectors for
supplying water to steam boilers, and it has for its objects the facilitating
of the cooling of the steam cone and the consequent considerable
augmentation of the quantity of water forced into the boiler, the attain-

page_text: ment of great simplicity in the arrangement of the component parts,
giving great facilities for keeping in repair and good order, and for
renewing worn or damaged parts, and the attainment of lightness and
compactness of the whole apparatus, which enables it to be very readily
fixed anywhere on the apparatus requiring it; and in order that the 5
following description of the said improvements may be properly under-
stood I have annexed hereunto a sectional Drawing illustrative
The first mentioned advantage is principally derived from the provision
of slits, apertures, or openings marked 1-on the annexed Drawing made
in the apex of the combining cone 2 opposite the water pipe 3, into
which cone and below which slits the steam cone 4 is led and passes.
The remainder of the advantages are derived from the simplicity of
the construction of the component parts and of their arrangement,
which may be briefly described as follows:-The steam cone is simply:
screwed into an enlargement (forming a water chamber 5) of a casing 6,
enveloping both the combining cone and the receiving cone 7, the latter
cones (2 and 7) being suitably screwed or connected together at a
desirable distance or space 8 apart, as shown, and from which space
leads an overflow branch 9.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Albert Dixon in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 4th March 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
'ALBERT DIXON, of Sheffield, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of September, in the year
of-our-Lord-One-thousand-eight-hundred and seventy-five, in-the-
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
_cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Alfred Albert Dixon, Her
special licence, that I, the said Alfred Albert Dixon, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Albert
Dixon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time

page_text: agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "AN IMPROVED INJECTOR FOR SUPPLYING WATER TO BOILERS," (a
communication to me from abroad by Hubert Rougy, of 61, Rue
Goffart, Bruxelles, in Belgium,) upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Alfred Albert Dixon, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, 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 said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Albert Dixon; do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement in writing, and on reference being had to
the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in injectors for
supplying water to steam boilers, and it has for its objects the facilitating
of the cooling of the steam cone and the consequent.considerable
augmentation of the quantity of water forced into the boiler, the attain-
ment of great simplicity in the arrangement of the component parts,
giving great facilities for keeping in repair and good order, and for
renewing worn or damaged parts, and the attainment of lightness and
compactness of the whole apparatus, which enables it to be very. readily
fixed anywhere on the apparatus requiring it; and in order that the
following description of these improvements may be more clearly under-
stood I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof,
and have marked the same with Figures of reference corresponding with
those in the said following description thereof, that is to say:-
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawings the improved injector is
illustrated in Figures 1 to 3, of which Figure 1 represents a longitudinal
section; Figure 2, a partial elevation; and Figure 3 a partial plan.
The above first mentioned advantage is derived principally from the
provision of slits, apertures, or openings 1, which are made in the apex
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of the combining cone 2, opposite the water pipe 3, into which cone and
below which slits the steam cone 4 is led and passes.
1
The remainder of the said advantages are derived from the simplicity.
of the construction of the component parts of the injector and of their
arrangement, which is as follows:-The steam cone 4 is simply screwed
into an enlargement (forming a water chamber b) of a casing 6,
enveloping both the combining cone 2 and the receiving cone 7, the
latter cones (2 and 7) being suitably screwed or connected together at a
-desirable-distance-or-space-(8)-apart,-as-shown-in-Figure-1,-and-from-
, which space leads an overflow branch 9.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and
objects of the said Invention, together with the manner in which
the same is to be or may be carried into practical effect, I would
remark in conclusion that I claim as the Invention communicated
to me by the said Hubert Rougy, the making of the said slits in the
combining cone, and the above described construction and arrangement
of the component parts of injectors, substantially as described (for the
purposes, and to attain the advantages above respectively specified) and
as illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Albert Dixon, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.