Improved Means for Preparing Water from Steam for use in the Manufacture of Ice.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Mar., 1898—Accepted, 2nd July, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Preparing Water from Steam for use in the
Manufacture of Ice.
I, EMIL RUTHEMEYER, Merchant, residing at Dusseldorf, Oberbilkerallee 184,
Kingdom of Prussia, Empire of Germany, 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 present invention relates to a combined steam condenser water filter and
cooler for use in the preparation of water for the manufacture of ice out of the
waste-steam leaving the steam-engine.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing is a longitudinal section of the apparatus
with its parts.
Fig. 2 is a cross section of the same.
Fig. 3 is the plan of the condensation-room from which the cover plate is
removed.
Fig. 4 is the plan of the filter-room with the cover-plate removed.
The steam to be used comes from the steam-engine, passes through tube R into
a piping rr, which is provided with outlet-nozzles dd 1 arranged at suitable dis-
tances. Through these outlets the steam is driven between the angular walls of
the cooling-vessel K where it deposits. The action of the nozzles into the angles
is especially advantageous because it produces a vivid movement of the quantity
of steam introduced and filling the space. In consequence of this arrangement of
the cooling-surfaces, which enables the utilization of the whole surfaces, a great
saving of room is obtained.
The water deposited from the steam collects in the lower part of the box K1
surrounding the cooling-surfaces K and passes through pipe u into the upper dis-
tribution-chamber F1 of the filter-box F from here it flows through the communi-
cating-pipes f over the filters F2 passes through the same, rises in the pipes g, of
which the lower end is of conical shape and provided with sieves, and streams
through the, lateral grooves 1 into the collecting-room G from where it passes
through a filter of any suitable construction V with the filtering material arranged
between sieves into the proper ice-cells. The arrangement of the several distri-
buting-chambers or collecting-chambers F1 G assists, besides the filter, in
catching-up the oil in consequence of the inlets and outlets being situated under
the level of the ceiling. Besides, the filter-rising-pipes are provided with
traversing cylinder-pipes 92, above the outlets 1 leading outside and provided
with tap h. Any particles of oil which may still have got into the filter from the
rising-pipes g are entering into these pipes 2, there they collect and can be let off
through the tap h.
This arrangement also enables a convenient control of the apparatus. Another
important improvement is the cooling of the filter, which is effected by the cooling-
water let in through Q, washing round the filter-chambers F2 principally in
serpentine-windings. The action of the filter is thus rendered much better. The
filter-chambers F2 are not brought up closely to each other and to the walls of

page_text: the box but there is some space left between their walls as well as at the bottom,
so that all surfaces of the filter-chambers are cooled.
From there the cooling-water ascends through pipe i into the angular cooling-
vessel K, streams through the same and leaves the apparatus through pipe n.
The arrangement of the collecting-room G between the distributing-room F1
and the filter-chambers F 2 is new and of favorable effect upon the function of the
apparatus in as much as through the cooling of the walls in upward and downward
direction, and through the communicating-pipe f, the cooled water itself effects a
previous cooling of the water streaming to the filtering-material.,
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
A combined steam condenser water filter and cooler for use in the preparation
of water for the manufacture of ice consisting of a condenser with closed box K 1,1
inside with angular cooling-vessel K, water-inlet-pipe 7, water-outlet-pipe u, steam-
inlet R, annular distributing-piper with nozzles dd1 opposite the angles of the
said cooling-vessel K, and a filtering-apparatus with cooled filter-chambers F2, the
distributing-room F1 feeding the chambers F2, with supply pipes f passing
through the collecting-room G, rising-pipes g out of the filter-chambers F 2, with
outlets g 1 situated inside the collecting-room, connecting pipe #2 arranged above
the latter g 1 with tap.h situated outside, and an after-filter V with. filtering.
material arranged between sieves, substantially as described.
1
1900
ERICH PETERS;
Agent for E. Ruthemeyer.