Improvements in and connected with Feed-water Apparatus for Locomotive and other Boilers.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 13th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 5th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Feed-water Apparatus for
Locomotive and other Boilers.
We, JOHN BASIL HOPE, of 6, Hillary Place, Leeds, Yorkshire, Engineer, and
RICHARD THOMAS BRIGGS, of Mill Street, Leeds, aforesaid, Maltster, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has reference to an improved means to be employed in arresting-
and preventing scale, grit, and foreign matters passing with the feed water into the
boiler.
In carrying out our invention we employ a perforated nozzle or strum which is
inserted into the feed pipe, but in combination with this perforated nozzle, we
employ a cup or sediment box. Therefore when the feedwater with its impurities
is passing through the feedwater pipes, the grit and scale instead of lodging against
the edge of the nozzle as hitherto, will drop into the sediment box, thereby
preventing the said hard substances passing away into the boiler or stopping up the
end of the nozzle.
The sediment box is provided with a screwed plug which upon being removed.
permits of the box being cleaned.
Dated this 12th day of June 1895.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Patent Agents.
Improvements in and connected with Feed-water Apparatus for
Locomotive and other Boilers.
We, JOHN BASIL HOPE, of 6, Hillary Place, Leeds, Yorkshire, Engineer, and
RICHARD THOMAS BRIGGS, of Mill Street, Leeds, aforesaid, Maltster, 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 has reference to an improved means to be employed in arresting
and preventing scale, grit and foreign matters passing with the feedwater into the
boiler.
In carrying out our invention we employ a perforated nozzle or strum which is
inserted into the feed pipe, but in combination with this perforated nozzle, we
employ a cup or sediment box, so that when the feedwater with its impurities is
passing through the feedwater pipes, the grit and scale instead of lodging against
the end of the nozzle as hitherto, will drop into the sediment box, thereby
preventing the said hard substances passing away into the boiler or stopping up
the end of the nozzle. The sediment box is provided with a screwed plug which
upon being removed permits of the box being cleaned.
Such being the nature and object of our invention, we will now proceed to
describe the same more fully, and for that purpose make reference to the accom-
panying sheet of drawings, wherein :-Fig. 1 is sectional elevation of our improved

page_text: apparatus and Fig. 2 end elevation of same. The portion of the feed pipe A is
attached by bolts or other means direct on to an injector, whilst the screwed part B
receives the feed or hogger pipe.
In carrying out our invention, we employ a perforated nozzle or strum C, which
is inserted into the feed pipe A, but in combination with this perforated nozzle C
we employ a cup or sump D, so that when water with its impurities is passing
through the said feed pipe A, the grit and scale and other impurities, instead of
lodging against the end C¹ of the said nozzle as hitherto, such said grit, scale and
sediment will drop into the box D, thereby preventing the said impurities passing
away into the boiler or stopping up the end of the nozzle. The sediment box D is
provided with a screwed plug E, which upon being removed, permits of the box
being cleaned.
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 :-
In feedwater apparatus for locomotive and other steam boilers, the use therein
of a perforated nozzle C, in combination with a sediment box D, employed in the
manner and for the purposes as herein shewn and described.
Dated this 4th day of March 1806
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Patent Agents.