IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING BOILERS: WITH WATER
Year: 1865

page_text: BETTERS PATENT to Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents,.
66; Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughts--
man, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING BOILERS:
WITH WATER. A communication from abroad by Gustav Adolph Riedel,.
of the City of Philadelphia, in the United States of America.
Sealed. the 30th January. 1866, and.dated. the 28th August 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Vincent Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th August 1865.
I, ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING:
BOILERS WITH WATER," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention. is to keep up a constant supply of water in
steam boilers by means of automatic apparatus, which is set in action by
steam from the boiler to which it is applied.
The apparatus may be described as a close vessel or feed water receiver
mounted
upon an oscillating frame formed of a bent tube or tubes, the ends
of which approach each other and form hollow journals, which have their
bearings in two valve chests set over the boiler. Pendent from these valve.
chests are pipes, one of which leads to the bottom of the boiler, and the other
to the determined water line. Tho journals of the pipes carry arms. or fingers,

page_text: which serve to operate the valves in the valve boxes when the feed water
vessel and its frame oscillate. This hollow frame is divided by a plug, and it
connects with the top and bottom of the vessel by pipes at opposite sides of
the plug, which pipes severally open a communication between the vessel and
the valve boxes. A third valve box connects the water supply pipe with one
of the valve boxes of the oscillating frame, and the valve, rod of this third
valve box is connected to a weighted rock lever, which is also connected by
friction rollers with the pipe leading down from the feed water vessel or
receiver.
The operation of the apparatus is as follows:-The feed water receiver
when in its lowest position is full of water, and the communication between it
and the feed pipe is closed, but as at this time the valves of the valve boxes
connected with the boiler are open, there is an open communication between
the receiver and the boiler. As soon, however, as by the generation of steam
the water level in the boiler descends below the datum line, the steam in the
boiler passes to the receiver, and pressing with the same force as upon the
water in the boiler discharges it into the lower part of the boiler. This allows
steam to take the place of water in the receiver, and the receiver being thus
lightened by the difference between the weight of water and the weight of
steam is forced upwards by the weighted lever into an elevated position. In
the upward movement of the receiver the valves in the boxes connected with
the boiler are closed, and the lever raises the water supply valve, thereby
opening the communication between the feed pipe and the receiver. This
allows the water in the feed pipe to condense the steam in the receiver, and
take the space thereby created in the latter. The receiver being thus
increased in weight overcomes the weight of the lever, and regains its former
position, by which action a reverse movement is given to the valves, and a
communication with the boiler is again effected. In this way the receiver
successively rises and falls automatically, and keeps up a regular supply of
water in the boiler.
by the said Altred Vincent Newton
the 28th February 1866.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County a
of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, send greeting.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County a
of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the.
said Alfred Vincent Newton, Her special licence that I, the said Alfred
Vincent Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns;
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter 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 "IM-.
PROVED APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING BOILERS WITH WATER," being a communica
tion from abroad, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred
Vincent Newton, 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 Vincent Newton, 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
This Invention relates to the keeping up of a constant supply of water in
steam boilers by means of an intermediate receiver and feeder, which has an
automatic movement, it being constructed, arranged, and operating sub-
stantially as herein-after described.
In the accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1, Sheet I., is a plan or top view of
the feeding apparatus; Fig. 2 is a side elevation; and Fig. 3 is a front view
of the same; Fig. 4 is a top view of the pipes G, G¹; and Fig. 5 is a side
view of one of the arms on the pivot end of a pipe G in connexion with the
valve C. Like letters in all the Figures indicate the same parts.
A is a vertical pipe, which is secured by means of a flange or otherwise to
the top surface of the boiler, its lower end terminating at the water line. The
upper end of the pipe is connected with the chest B, which is provided with a
valve C; D is a pipe similarly arranged as the pipe A, but its lower end
terminates near the bottom of the boiler, its upper end being connected with
the chest E, which is provided with a valve F. The pipes A and D are fitted

page_text: with stop cocks A', D'; G, G'; are pipes connected together in quadrilateral
form, and are partially inclined. Their ends 1 and 2 communicate respectively
with the pipes A and D by means of the chest B, E, so as to form a com-
munication with the receiver H and the water line in the boiler by means of
the pipe I, which is connected with the pipe G by means of the fitting a, and
also a communication with the water at the bottom of the boiler by means of
the vertical pipe J, connected at its upper end with the bottom of the
receiver H, and at its lower end with the pipe G¹, by means of the fitting b.
The pipes G, G₁, are permanently closed between the two fittings a, b. There
is a chest K, which has communication with the end 1 of the pipe G,
and with the feed pipe. The latter is not shewn in the Drawings. The
chest K is provided with a valve L, for opening and closing the com-
munication between the receiver H and the feed pipe. The valve being
actuated by the weighted lever M in the upward and downward motions of
the receiver, as will be herein-after described. The lever M is connected
with the vertical pipe J by means of friction rollers N, N, which turn on
pins O, O, secured in the pipe, the end of the lever being forked, so as to
*come on each side of the pipe, and having slots c, c, which move freely on
the rollers. The lever is connected to the stem d of the valve L by means of
a vertical strap P, which strap works on the pine at its lower end, and has
slots fin the upper and forked end, in which the pin g of the lever M works-;
Qis a standard, which carries a fulcrum roller R in a slot in its upper end.
This roller lies in a slot k in the lever M, and allows the lever to play back-
ward and forward as it bears on the roller in the up and down motions of the
valve L to favour the vertical movement of the strap P, and increase the
effective power of the lever in the upward movement of the receiver H, the
latter effect being produced by increasing the distance from the counterweight
to the fulcrum. For opening and closing the communication between the
⚫ feed pipe and the receiver H, and between the latter and the boiler, so as to
keep up a constant supply of water to the latter, the receiver has an up-and-
down motion, the ends 1 and 2 of the pipes G, G¹, turning freely in the
stuffing boxes S, T, and being provided with the arms u, u, which connect by
means of suitable openings with the valves C, F, for opening and closing the
communication with the boiler. The connexion of one of the arms
one of the valves is shown in detail in Fig. 5.
with
The operation is as follows:-The receiver H being in its lower position,
as represented in Figures 1, 2, 3, at which point it is full of water, the valve
L has closed the communication between it and the feed pipe, and the
valves C, F, being up, there is an open communication between the feed pipe

page_text: and the receiver and the water in the boiler, until by the generation of steam
the water in the boiler.descends below the datum line; then the steam in the
boiler acting through the pipe A passes to the receiver, and pressing with the
same force upon the water therein as upon the water in the boiler forces the
supply down the vertical pipe J and through the end 2 of the pipe G¹, and
down the pipe D into the 'lower part of the boiler. This allows steam to
take the place of water in the receiver H, and the receiver being thus
lightened by the difference between the weight of water and the weight of
steam is forced upwards by the weighted lever M into, the position indicated
by red lines in Fig. 2. In the upward movement of the receiver the arms u, u,
of the pipes G, G', will close the valves. C, F, so as to cut off the com-
munication with the boiler, and the lever M will at the same time lift the
valve L, and thereby open the communication between the feed pipe and the
receiver.. This allows the water in the feed pipe to condense the steam in
the receiver, and take the space thereby created in the latter. The receiver
being thus increased in weight overcomes the force of the lever M, and
regains its former position, by which action a reverse movement is given to
the valve C, F, and L, and a communication through the pipes A, D, is again
effected with the boiler, while communication with the feed pipe is cut off.
In this way the receiver successively rises and falls automatically, and keeps
up a regular supply of water in the boiler. The pipe I instead of being
placed at the side of the receiver H may enter it at its lower end, and
terminate at the upper end. And instead of constructing the weighted lever
with the slot to change its fulcrum bearing, its power may be increased by
having the weight v to slide towards the outer end of the former as it
descends. The receiver H instead of oscillating may have any other up-
and-down movement.
In Sheet II., a modification of the above described arrangement is shewn,
Fig. 6 being an elevation, and Fig. 7 a plan view of the feed water apparatus.
In this case stop valves are used in place of the slide valves C, F, and all the
valves C, F, L, are actuated by arms on the hollow axle of the rock frame or
pipes G, G, by which the receiver H is carried, as before explained. These
arms u, u, u, are severally connected with the valve rods, as shown, and the
rocking action of the frame causes the simultaneous opening of the supply
water valve L, and closing of the discharge valve F and steam valve C,
or the closing of the supply valve L and the opening of the valves F, C, as in
the first-described arrangement. Instead of depending on the adjustment of
the rock lever M by shifting or changing the balance weight to ensure the
proper action of the apparatus, an adjustable fulcrum roller R is substituted

page_text: for the fulcrum roller carried by the fixed standard Q of the first-described
arrangement. This adjustable standard Q may be fixed at any desired
position on the frame Q by clamping nuts, or otherwise. As the arrange-
ment is in all other essential respects substantially the same as that described
with reference to Sheet I., it will be unnecessary to enter into further details,
either of its construction or working.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of "Improved Apparatus
for Supplying Steam Boilers with Water," and explained the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not claim
the opening and closing of water supply valves by the automatic movement of
an intermediate receiver and feeder produced by the alternate action of steam
from the boiler to be fed, and of the feed water to be delivered to the boiler;
but what I claim under the above in part recited Letters Patent is, the
arrangements above described for actuating the lifting valves for the purpose
above set forth.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
A. V. NEWTON. (L.S.)