Improvements in Means for Condensing Smoke.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 20th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 16th May, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Condensing Smoke.
I, SAMUEL JAMES FARNSWORTH No. 6 Ward's Buildings, Deansgate.
Manchester, Contractor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
That the smoke from any fire or furnace is conducted therefrom by flues into
cylinders or chambers of various sizes and shapes calculated according to the
volume or quantity of smoke to be condensed or purified. The chambers are filled
with steam and showers of water are converted into a moist or wet air, the smoke
passing through is condensed with the steam, and thus leaves the black matter in
the chambers and runs out in a thick liquor, this being caught in tanks is used for
various purposes such as dyes &c.
SAMUEL JAMES FARNSWORTH,
6 Ward's Buildings, Deansgate, Manchester.
SAMUEL JAMES FARNSWORTH Contractor, 6 Ward's Buildings Deansgate
Manchester 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, reference being made to the accompanying drawing which
is a sectional elevation :-
This improvements in means for condensing smoke is an apparatus made of sheet
iron in the form of a square or round tank A divided into chambers one above the
other with draw flues through each chamber, a complete condenser will consist
of four of these tanks A with round or square flues B between each tank, this
condenser can be made of various sizes and strength required according to the
amount of smoke to be condensed and can be fixed to any furnace fire or flues,
the smoke is conducted from the furnace by flues B into the bottom of the first
tank or section of the condenser and passes through the various chambers and out
at the top into a flue which conducts it down and into the bottom of the second
tank or section, passing through this the same as the first and out at the top flue-
which conducts it into the bottom of the third tank or section same as the first and
second and out at the top then down another flue which conducts it into the bottom
of the fourth tank or section passing through this as before and out at a small
chimney at the top. Into each of the sections is conducted by means of a pipe C
a supply of steam or mistified water which mixes with smoke as it passes through
the condenser thereby condensing the whole into a licquid state again takes with it the
black smoke and falls to the bottom of each tank and flue thourghly purifying the
air from the blackness and thus nothing is seen going out of the small chimney at
the top of the last section of the condenser but a slight white vapour sometimes
not distinguishable from the surounding atmostphere, therefore by this process
1st I claim to take the coal which is reduced into small particles by the action of
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page_text: the fire which is called black smoke out of the current of air from the furnis and
catch it in cisterns in the form of a licquor as it runs out of each tank at the bottom
by means of a pipe D and thus purifies the air which passes off as clear as when it
first entered the furnis door, secondly I claim that the licquor coal that is cought
by passing through the condenser is of more comercial value then the cost of the
coal that is consumed, thirdly I claim by the above process of condensing the
smoke to give purity of air to the surounding vegetation, and also give the power
to our large works free of cost by saveing the cost of coal consumed to create that
power.
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
The smoke condensing apparatus as hereinbefore described and shown.
SAMUEL JAMES FARNSWORTH.