Improvements in Furnaces for Melting Glass, Puddling Iron, or like Operations.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 1st Oct., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Nov, 1895".
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Furnaces for Melting Glass, Puddling Iron, or like
Operations.
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We, CALEB BATESON and CHRISTOPHER BATESON both of Victory Glass
Works, Edge-hill near Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Glass Bottle
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that
is to say :-
It relates to improvements in furnaces for melting glass, puddling iron or like
operations and consists of forming or arranging said furnaces so that the heat
generated by the consumption of the fuel is effectively concentrated while the
smoke or gases therefrom is or are thoroughly consumed with the resultant
advantages of reduction in cost of production and addition to the quality of article
or substance produced.
To attain the object of our invention we make use of the well known form of
hollow bridge which intervenes between the fire space and the tank, but instead of
using the hollow part or cavity beneath this bridge merely as means for keeping
the walls thereof at as low a temperature as possible which is done for well known
purposes, we utilize this cavity as a chamber for heating air and this air we
conduct therefrom by forming a flue along the side or back wall of said fire space,
as also for a suitable distance along the end thereof which is opposite the tank,
in order that we may cause it to pass over the top of the fire in the direction of
the tank. The termination of this flue being formed so that the current of heated
air is spread as evenly as possible over the whole of the upper surface of the fire
space, one or more dampere being employed in convenient positions for regulating
the flow of said current of air.
By the employment of this arrangement of furnace a current of air of unimpaired
condition for supporting combustion is supplied to such a part of the fire and in
such a manner as to enable the consumption of the gases rising therefrom without
diminishing but rather adding to the temperature thereof, while being admitted
in the direction described on passing over the tank it is deflected to strike against
or otherwise come into contact with the glass or metal or other substance therein
more rapidly increasing the temperature thereof than has heretofore been the case
and that with a reduction of the otherwise added matter deleterious thereto, by
reason of the thorough consumption of the varied particles of matter from
the fire.
Dated this 20th day of April 1895.
CALEB BATESON,
CHRISTOPHER BATESON,
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Furnaces for Melting Glass, Puddling Iron, or like
Operations.
We, CALEB BATESON and CHRISTOPHER BATESON both of Victory Glass
Works, Edgehill, near Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Glass Bottle
Manufacturers, 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, that is to say:-
It relates to improvements in furnaces for melting glass, puddling iron or like
operations and consists of forming or arranging said furnaces so that the heat
generated by the consumption of the fuel is effectively concentrated while the
smoke or gases therefrom is or are thoroughly consumed with the resultant
advantages of reduction in cost of production and addition to the quality of article
or substance produced.
In the accompanying sheets of drawings
Fig 1 is longitudinal section on line A D Fig. 3. of a furnace constructed or built
in accordance with our invention.
Fig. 2 is end elevation of same as seen in the direction indicated by the arrow a,
and Fig. 3 is sectional plan thereof on line C D.
Fig. 4 is sectional end elevation on line E F Fig. 1.
To attain the object of our invention we make use of the well known form of
hollow bridge b which intervenes between the fire-space cand the tank d, but
instead of using the hollow part or cavity e merely as means for keeping the walls
of the bridge at as low a temperature as possible which is done for well known
purposes, we utilize this cavity as a chamber for heating the air it contains, and
this air we conduct therefrom by forming a flue f along the side. or back wall gas
also along the end wall h in order that we may cause it to pass over the top of the
fire in the space e as indicated by the arrows.
The termination of the flue fis formed by being made comparatively narrow at
the part while it is also made to extend from the wall g to the wall m so that the
current of air is thereby spread over the whole of the upper surface of the space o
the quantity of such air or strength of the current being regulated by a damper n
placed at the outer opening of the passage pleading into the cavity e or this
damper may be placed in any other convenient or suitable part of the flue e or f.
By the employment of the arrangement of inlet flue as above described a
current of air of unimpaired condition for supporting combustion is supplied. to
such a part of the fire and in such a manner as to enable the consumption of the
gases rising therefrom without diminishing but rather adding to the temperature
thereof, while by being admitted in the direction and spread over the surface of
the fire as described its passage over the bridge b and upper part of the tank d
deflects the more intensely-heated part of the current causing it to strike against
or otherwise come into contact with the glass or metal or other substance therein
more rapidly increasing the temperature thereof than has heretofore been the
case, and that with a reduction of the otherwise added matter deleterious thereto,
by reason of the thorough consumption by combustion of the varied particles of
matter from the fire.
The outlet flues r s lead from the sides of the tank and are kept entirely separate
from each other for a considerable distance therefrom; the effect of such arrange
ment being in the first place to enable the end wall t of the tank to deflect the
current of air and cause it to impinge on the contents of the tank in proximity with
this wall t prior to its escape up the flues rs while in the second place by these
lätter being situated and kept from each other as shown, their influence over said
air or gases is as nearly as possible the same on one side of the tank as on the
other.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. In a furnace, and for the purposes described, a flue arranged relatively to the
bridge and fire space substantially as described.
2. In a furnace, the outlet flues arranged and operating substantially as
described.
3. A furnace arranged constructed and operating substantially as described.
Dated this 30th day of September 1895.
CALEB BATESON,
CHRISTOPHER BATESON,
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.