Improvements in Means and Apparatus for Consuming Smoke.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Jan., 1893—Accepted, 1st Apr., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means and Apparatus for Consuming Smoke.
1, MARTIN ROSE RUBLE, of 282 Halsey Street, in the City of Newark, County
of Essex and State of New Jersey, U.S.A., Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in means and
apparatus for consuming smoke, and it consists essentially in the construction and
arrangement of the various parts of the blower and their combination with the
inlets and outlets; it further consists in the connection with the reservoir, smoke-
stack and the furnace.
In the drawings,
Figure 1 is a side elevation partially broken away of the improved suction blower
and reservoir attached thereto, and
Figure 2 is a front view of the blower partly sectional of the line - Figure 1.
In said drawings a represents the casing, provided with centrally located inlets b
and with outlets c. To one side of the casing is secured by bolts or in any desired
manner a bracket frame d, supporting the shaft e carrying pulley f
To the inner end of said shaft is secured a spider g, supporting the plates of
the inner wheel, which plates are provided with centrally located openings p.
Between said plates are arranged uniform wide metal strips adapted to form
partition plates, and their circular curved portions m the sectional periphery of
the wheel.
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The disc plates and the metal strips are firmly held together by bolts or in
any desired manner.
The wheel is thus divided into a series of compartments o, the radial and circular
sides of which, form-when the wheel is revolved-suction cups or chambers,
whereby air, gases, smoke, etc., are sucked through openings and p into the wheel
and are discharged into the circular channel formed between the wheel and the
inner periphery of the casing a.
The spider is provided at each side with a circular ring operating with its outer
edge against the circular ring t secured to casing a, (as clearly shown in the
drawings) thus making an air tight joint for the said casing.
As already stated the bearing d for the shaft e is secured to one side of the
casing. On the opposite side of the latter and surrounding its centrally located
opening is arranged a tube or pipe, adapted to convey the smoke from the
smoke-stack of a furnace into the said suction wheel.
The outlet e of the blower is connected by a suitable pipe with a reservoir w,
which is provided with a series of partially overlapping plates A, and at its top
with a pipe or tube B, adapted to be carried below the firing place of the boiler.
In operation, the wheel in rotating in the direction of the arrow, creates a suction
at the partition plates k, whereby air is sucked into the wheel through the inlet
opening at one side, and smoke through the inlet opening at the other side of the
casing. The circular sides m of each compartment, prevent the returning of the
fluid from the circular channel into the compartments and also assist in
increasing the vacuum in the latter.
The air and smoke is mixed within said chambers and is discharged into the
channel and from there through outlets c into the reservoir c, where the force
of the current is broken. This mixed fluid or better the smoke containing the
fresh air is blown through tube B towards and under the firing place into the fire as
will be manifest.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inveu-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is:
1-The method of consuming smoke, consisting in first drawing the smoke out of
the smoke stack, then in mixing said smoke with fresh air, and finally in forcing
said combined smoke and air into the firing place of the furnace, substantially
as described.
2-The combination in a blower, of the spider g, side plates and partition
plates i, arranged to form with the said side plates a series of triangular shaped
compartments, with the casing a, outlet e and reservoir w, having overlapping
partition plates A, all said parts substantially as described and for the purposes set
forth.
3-In a smoke consuming apparatus, "the combination of a suction wheel,
composed of a series of triangular shaped chambers and its casing, said wheel and
casing being open on one side about the centre of the wheel, with the outlet pipe c
leading from said casing, with the reservoir w, furnished with a series of over-
lapping partition plates A, and connected by pipe or tube » with the outlet
C, and
with pipe u leading from the smoke-stack of a furnace to the centre of the suction
wheel, substantially as described.
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Dated this 18th day of January 1893.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.