A. Telescopically Sliding Funnel for Traction Engines and other purposes
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 29th. June, 1892-Accepted, 30th July, 1692.
PROVISIONAI. SPECIFICATION.
A. Telescopically Sliding Funnel for Traction Engines and other
purposes.
JAMES CARTER, SIDNEY. CARTER, FRANK CARTER, and EVERSHED CARTER,
trading as Carter Bros. Agricultural Engineers Billingshurst Sussex do hereby
<leclare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
".
A telescopically sliding funnel for traction engines and other purposes. A. is
the lower section and is fixed into hinge ring F. in the usual manner.
B the upper
section (which may be made either straight or taper) slides on the outside of A
and is raised or lowered by means of a rack C which is fixed to the top of B and
slides in guides J. and I. and is actuated by a pinion H fixed on spindle G which
projects on the outside of A and is worked by a detachable winch K either direct
onto spindle G or geared as may be required. When B is raised to its full height
it is held firm and straight by ring D fixed on the outside of A close to the top,
and ring E. fixed on the inside of B at the bottom being pressed and held firmly
together by a spring L which hooks onto winch K at one end at the other end is a
chain which fastens onto a hook fixed on the smoke box or funnel base in some.
convenient position. The drawing shows the funnel partially raised.
Dated this 28th day of September 1891.
JAMES CARTER.
SIDNEY CARTER.
FRANK CARTER.
EVERSHED CARTER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Telescopically Sliding Funnel for Traction Engines and other
purposes.
We, JAMES CARTER, SIDNEY. CARTER, FRANK CARTER and EVERSHED
CARTER, trading as Carter Brothers, of Billingshurst, in the County of Sussex,
Engineers, 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 :-
Our invention relates to the funnels or chimneys of traction engines and the
like and has for its object to provide means for improving the draught through
the fire boxes of such engines especially when they are required for thrashing and
other purposes in which they remain stationary.
In carrying out our invention we arrange over the ordinary funnel a supple-
mentary funnel adapted to slide or move longitudinally upon such ordinary funnel.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of an engine shewing the application of
our supplementary sliding funnel to the ordinary funnel, and
Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same on the line x, x.
Figure 3 is a plan of the top of the supplementary funnel, and
Figure 4 is a section on the line y, y Figure 2.
Figure 5 is a front elevation illustrating a modification of our invention.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.
a indicates the smoke box, the ordinary funnel and c the supplementary funnel
adanted to slide unon the funnel.
C

page_text: Any desirable means may be employed for raising the supplementary funnel
relatively to the ordinary funnel.
In the arrangement shewn in Figures 1 to 4 the supplementary funnel c has fixed
at its upper end a cross bar d to which is attached a rod e sliding in a guide fin
a cross bar g secured to the top of the ordinary funnel, the lower end of the rod e
being provided with a rack working against a guide h¹. With this rack engages
a pinion i mounted upon a shaft carried in bearings in the ordinary funnel and
adapted to carry at one end a winch handlek so that by rotating the said winch
handle in one or the other direction the supplementary funnel can be raised or
lowered as desired. lis ratchet wheel secured to the shaft j and m is a pawl
engaging with the said ratchet wheel, the said ratchet wheel and pawl serving to
retain the supplementary funnel in any positi. n.
In the modification shewn in Figure we provide for raising the supplementary
funnel e by forming upon the ordinary funnel spiral ribs n, n with which lugs o, o
on the interior of the supplementary funnel e are designed to engage in such a
manner that when the supplementary funnel e is rotated in the required direction
by means of the handles or arms p, it will be raised.
As shewn in the drawing three spiral ribs n are employed forming a triple
thread and the upper end of each rib is flattened as shewn at y in order that, when
the supplementary funnel is in its uppermost position, the lugs o, o will rest upon
flat surfaces.
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 :-
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(1.) The improvement in the funnels of traction and other engines consisting in
the provision of a supplementary funnel adapted to slide upon the ordinary funnel
substantially as and for the purpose described.
(2.) The improvements in the funnels of traction and other engines hereinbefore
described and illustrated in Figures 1 to 4 and in Figure 5 of the accompanying
drawing.
2.
ated the 29th day of June 1892.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.