Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 25th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 5th Oct., 1888
I EDWARD WHITMORE JONES of Manor House Caister Great Yarmouth Gentleman
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements up on injectors for supplying with water all
kinds of steam boilers.
The object of the improvement being to make such apparatus almost self feeding.
Only being necessary to move a lever at right angles when the said apparatus will
feed the boiler from the reservoir which when empty the said lever is put back to its
original perpendicular position which will cause the said reservoir to refill with water
while the said perpendicular position of the said lever will communicate with the other
connected reservoir and will supply the Boiler immediately with water and when the
above mentioned connected second reservoir has emptied into the boiler by again
dropping the lever to a right angle the first mentioned reservoir will again feed, and
so on by this alternate movement any supply of water can be obtained without fail.
For this purpose the injector with one or two reservoirs being fixed above the water-
line of the boiler thus acting as both reservoir & injector which I call my improved
boiler feeding apparatus.
The reservoir or reservoirs have a tube or tubes in direct communication with the
water supply (outside the boiler).
The water is drawn into the said reservoir or reservoirs by vacuum and by moving
a lever as aforesaid to a right angle. Then the water in the reservoir is forced into
the boiler by a steam tube or tubes in connection with reservoir & boiler thus a
constant supply of water must always be in one part or section of reservoir.
This improved boiler feeding apparatus will work with five pounds steam pressure
or at any greater pressure to the square inch.
No overflow needed & no clacks necessary & heat will not prevent its working &
will work with boiling water.
00 135 L 1000

page_text: I, EDWARD WHITMORE JONES, of Manor House, Caistor, Great Yarmouth, in the
county of Norfolk, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
My said invention relates to an improved apparatus, which is entirely, or nearly,
self-acting, for supplying a continuous feed of water to steam boilers.
The said improved apparatus consists of two or more closed vessels or reservoirs
of metal which are of any suitable size and shape, as will be well understood, and
which are arranged in any desired position above the proper water line in the boiler
to which they are applied. In the interior of each of such vessels or reservoirs are
two pipes which lead nearly to the top thereof and which are so arranged that their
lower ends are, when the cock, hereinafter referred to, is in a certain position, respec-
tively connected with the steam space of the boiler and the water supply. In the
lower part of the vessel or reservoir, is an opening to which is fitted a pipe so
arranged that the water in the vessel or reservoir can be discharged into the lower
part of the water space of the boiler. A cock is arranged in such a manner in con-
nection with the said vessels or reservoirs, and is bored with suitable ways or passages.
that, when in one position, the steam and feed pipes of one of the vessels or reservoirs
will be open and the supply pipe closed, so that the water contained within such vessel
or reservoir will, by reason of its own weight and assisted by the pressure of the
steam, be forced into the boiler, whilst the steam and feed pipes of the other vessel or
vessels will be closed and the supply pipe or pipes open. The vacuum caused by the
condensation, in the vessel or vessels, of the steam which has been introduced to assist
the forcing of the previous charge or charges of water from the vessel or vessels will
suck or draw up, through the supply pipe or pipes, more water from the main
reservoir and thus the vessel or vessels again become charged.
In the above manner, whilst water is being supplied to the boiler by one or more
vessels, the remaining vessel or vessels is or are being charged from the main
reservoir. Instead of moving the cock, which may be effected by means of a lever,
I, in some cases, fix the cock in position and arrange the vessels to rock thereon, in
which case the working of the apparatus will be self-acting.
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I will now proceed to refer to the accompanying drawings from which the nature
of my said invention will be more clearly understood. The said drawings illustrate
an improved boiler feeding apparatus in which two vessels or reservoirs are employed.
As illustrated the vessels or reservoirs are fixed and the cock is actuated by a lever.
Figure 1 is a front elevation, in section, of the apparatus, applied to a boiler. D, D', a
the reservoirs. A, is the upper part of a boiler, B, X, and B, X, are pipes which open
into the reservoirs near the top and conduct steam from the steam space of the boiler
into the said vessels, the lower ends of such pipes are, in some cases, in such a
position that when the water in the boiler reaches its proper level it will close the
ends of the said pipes, and by so doing arrest the supply of water. C. Y. and C' Y.
are supply pipes which communicate with the main reservoir, these also open
near the tops of the vessels or reservoirs D. D¹; E. Z. and E¹ Z. are the feed pipes

page_text: through which the water passes from the reservoirs into the lower part of the boiler.
F. is the plug of the cock which has a number of ways or passages therein for placing
the different parts of the pipes herein before mentioned in communication with each
other, as hereinafter described. Figure 2 is a detached sectional side view of the said
cock and case within which it works, and Figure 3, is a detached view of one of
the vessels or reservoirs, slightly modified in construction.
In the accompanying drawings, the cock is shown in position for the discharge of
the water from the vessel or reservoir D. into the boiler and for the vessel D¹ to be
filled by water from the main reservoir.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-
When the cock F. is in the position shown, the way or passage E2 connects the
two parts of the pipe E. Z. and the way or passage B2, connects the two parts of the
pipe B. X. so that steam from the boiler passes through the pipe B. X. and way B²
into the upper part of the vessel or reservoir D, and the water contained in the
latter passes through the pipe E. Z. and way E, into the lower part of the boiler.
The passage of water into the said vessel or reservoir from the main reservoir is cut
off by the disconnection of the parts of the supply pipe C. Y.; with regard to the
vessel or reservoir D¹, the supply pipe C Y. is open and through it and the way C² a
charge of water, is drawn into the vessel or reservoir by the suction caused by the
condensation of the steam which had entered from the boiler before the lever had been
moved over into the position shown at Figure 1. When the water from the vessel D,
has been discharged, the lever is again moved over, and the steam in the said vessel
becoming condensed a further charge of water is sucked or drawn up, as hereinbefore
described, whilst, at the same time, the water in the vessel D¹ is discharged into the
boiler.
When desired, spring valves may be provided in the inner face of the case within
which the cock works so as to bear against the face of the latter and prevent leakage,
or the said valves may be let into the face of the cock and bear against the case. I
have hereinbéfore described the passages through which the steam and water pass as
pipes, but it will be readily understood that they are not necessarily so.
When the apparatus is self-acting as hereinbefore stated, the fixed cock constitutes
the centre on which the vessels rock, the motion being produced by the difference in
weight of the vessels due to the fact that whilst one is empty the other is charged with
water. Boiler feeding apparatus constructed and arranged as hereinbefore described
can be worked with very little pressure of steam and can be used for supplying boiling
water to the boiler.
I desire it to be understood that I do not claim generally boiler feeding apparatus
in which the water is sucked up and discharged in the manner hereinbefore described,
neither do I claim arranging the vessels in such a way that they may rock and in so
doing open the various ports.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
An apparatus for feeding steam boilers, consisting of two or more vessels or
reservoirs and a cock by which the same can be placed into communication with the
main reservoir and the steam and water spaces of the boiler to which the apparatus is
supplied, the whole being constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposes
hereinbefore described.
Dated this Twenty fifth day of August 1888