IMPROVED COMBINED WINDING ENGINE, BOILER, AND COOKING AND DISTILLING APPARATUS, INCLUDING IMPROVEMENTS ALSO APPLICABLE SEPARATELY
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Chaplin, of Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, and of Sackville Street, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer,
for the Invention of "IMPROVED COMBINED WINDING ENGINE, BOILER, AND
COOKING AND DISTILLING APPARATUS, INCLUDING IMPROVEMENTS ALSO APPLICABLE
SEPARATELY."
Sealed the 25th March 1862, and dated the 7th October 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Chaplin at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th October 1861.
I, ALEXANDER CHAPLIN, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, and of
Sackville Street, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED COMBINED WINDING ENGINE, BOILER
AND COOKING AND DISTILLING APPARATUS, INCLUDING IMPROVEMENTS ALSO APPLICABLE,
SEPARATELY," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates principally to a combination of apparatus specially
designed for ships' use, but also applicable otherwise, and having for object
increased convenience in arrangement, and increased economy in cost and
in use. There are also comprised in the combination improved details,
which are applicable separately.
The improved combination comprises in the first place a steam boiler (with
its furnace), by preference of the vertical class, and having attached to it
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page_text: an inverted direct-acting cylinder, driving, winding, or hoisting gear, which
is applicable for a great variety of purposes on board ship, such as hoisting
cargo, anchors, yards, or sails. In the next place there is fitted up in
immediate connection with the steam boiler a cooking range, contrived so
that cooking may be effected by introducing into the cooking vessels steam
from the boiler, and also with a steam oven, in which cooking is effected by
introducing high-pressure steam into a jacket or casing enclosing the oven.
There is also provision for introducing steam into boilers for heating water,
and into apparatus for distilling fresh from salt water for ships'use. Arrange-
ments are also made for directing the fire gases, or a portion of them, from
the steam boiler furnace into flues contrived in the cooking range, in order
that the radiant heat of such gases may be used in cooking, whilst suitable
valves or dampers are fitted in the several flues to regulate the action of the
gases. Finally, a separate grate is fitted to the cooking range, in order that
when the steam boiler is not in use, or its furnace not available, cooking
may still be effected, and suitable valves or slides are provided to close the
communication of the cooking range flues with the steam boiler furnace and
open it with the grate, or vice versâ, as required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexander Chaplin in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th April 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
CHAPLIN, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, and of Sackville Street, in the
County of Middlesex, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Alexander Chaplin, Her special licence that I, the said Alexander
Chaplin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Alexander Chaplin, 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
" IMPROVED COMBINED WINDING ENGINE, BOILER, AND COOKING AND DISTILLING

page_text: "
APPARATUS, INCLUDING IMPROVEMENTS ALSO APPLICABLE SEPARATELY,'
upon the
condition, amongst others, that I, the said Alexander Chaplin, my execu
tors 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 per-
formed, 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 Alexander Chaplin, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement in writing, and on reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, that is to say,-
My said Invention relates principally to a combination of apparatus
specially designed for ships' use, but also applicable otherwise, and having
for object increased convenience in arrangement, and increased economy in
cost and in use. There are also comprised in the combination improved
details which are applicable separately.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood and
carried into effect, I have hereunto appended a Sheet of explanatory Drawings
showing one of the various modifications of which my improved combined
apparatus is susceptible.
:
Figure 1 is a vertical section, and Figure 2 is an elevation, partly in section,
the two figures representing the apparatus as viewed from sides at right
angles to each other. The same reference letters mark the same parts in
both Figures.
The improved combination comprises in the first place a steam boiler, by
preference of the vertical class, such, for example, as is represented at A,
with its furnace B, and having attached to it an inverted direct-acting
cylinder C (or two such cylinders), driving, winding, or hoisting gear, such,
for example, as is shown at D, and which is applicable for a great variety of
purposes on board ship, such as hoisting cargo, anchors, yards, or sails, or for
working the ships' pumps, this last operation being conveniently effected by
means of an endless pitch chain, which transmits the requisite power from the
engines to the pumps. The ordinary ship's windlass may also be worked by
this apparatus in a similar manner. In the next place there is fitted up in
immediate connection with the boiler A a cooking range E, and a cooking
vessel F, contrived so that cooking may be effected by introducing therein
steam from the boiler by means of a pipe f. A steam oven G is also pro

page_text: vided, wherein cooking is effected by introducing high-pressure steam into a
jacket or casing g, enclosing the oven. There is also provision for introducing
steam into boilers for heating water, and into apparatus for distilling fresh
from salt water for ships' use. A simple and convenient arrangement for
effecting such distillation is shown at H, Figure 2. The steam enters by a
pipe h into a spirally coiled pipe or worm 1', enclosed in a vessel, into which
sea water is introduced by a pipe I, which descending to the bottom, where it
is perforated for the water to issue, causes the current of water to pass
upwards to the outlet i, in a direction opposite to that of the steam being
condensed. The fresh or condensed water is drawn off by the tap J, and is
passed through a suitable filter to render it fit for use. The condenser H, as
also the boiler or cooking vessel F, are shown detached for convenience of
illustration, but they may in practice be placed in any convenient positions
close to or removed a moderate distance from the boiler A. One or more
condensing tanks or vessels also may be used. In the case of the distilling
apparatus, the steam pipe before entering it may be passed through the cabins
and other parts of the vessel for the purpose of warming them. Arrange-
ments are made for directing the fire gases, or a portion of them, from the
steam boiler furnace B into flues (M, N,) contrived in the cooking range E,
in order that the radiant heat of such gases may be used in cooking, whilst
suitable valves or dampers P, Q, R, are fitted in the several flues to regulate
the action of the gases. The flames first acting upon the hot plate e, which is
provided with suitable openings and lids for boiling pans, &c., by direct action
of the flame. The steam boiler A is fitted with the usual funnel S, a separate
funnel T being provided for the fire gases passing through the cooking
range E. When the fire gases, or a part of them, are wanted to pass through
the range, the damper Q is more or less closed, and the damper P fitted to
the communication between the boiler A and range Eopened. The fire gases
have then access by the flue M to the hot plate e, and round the oven U
finally passing by the flue N to the funnel T. The range E is fitted with a
separate grate at V, which, by opening a slide or door can be made to present
an open face for roasting at the side, being provided with an ash-pan W.
whilst a damper, the handle of which is shown at R, is provided for shutting
or opening the communication with the flue M. This grate V may be
employed for cooking when the steam boiler A is not in use, or its furnace not
available. It may, however, be entirely closed up when the fire gases from
the boiler furnace B are passed through the range. The draught through the
range E and its funnel T is assisted by a steam jet pipe tintroduced into
the latter

page_text: Having thus particularly described my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is or may be used or carried into effect, I have to state that
I do not restrict myself to the precise details herein described or delineated,
but that what I consider to be novel and original, and claim as the Inven-
tion secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is,―
First, the combining of a winding engine and boiler with cooking and
distilling apparatus, as herein-before described.
Second; the adapting or fitting of a cooking range or equivalent apparatus
to a steam boiler for working a steam engine and winding gearing, so that the
range may be heated by the boiler furnace, or by a separate fire, according to
circumstances, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Chaplin, have hereunto set
hand and seal, this Fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
my
ALEX. CHAPLIN. (L.S.)