Improvements in or Connected with Steam Pipes of Copper or other similar Metal or Alloy.
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Connected with Steam Pipes of Copper or other
similar Metal or Alloy.
I, PETER DENNY, Junior, of the firm of Denny and Company, of Dumbarton, in
the County of Dumbarton, North Britain, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
this Invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object the strengthening of steam pipes in an improved,
simple, and effective manner; the improvements being specially designed for the
copper steam pipes of marine engines working with high pressures, whilst they are
also applicable to other steam pipes.
My Invention consists in encircling a steam pipe with hoops placed at suitable
distances apart along the pipe and binding it as tightly as possible. The strengthening
hoops may be made of wire or rods of malleable iron, or steel, or bronze, or other
suitable metal; and the hoops may be closed and tightened upon the pipe by twisting
the ends of the wire or rod together or in any other convenient way.
Dated this Trantor fourth day of July 1888
EDMUND HUNT,
Per pro. David Ferguson,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Connected with Steam Pipes of Copper or other
similar Metal or Alloy.
I, PETER DENNY, Junior, of the firm of Denny and Company, of Dumbarton, in
the County of Dumbarton, North Britain, Engineer, 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, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object the strengthening of steam pipes in an improved,
simple, and effective manner; the improvements being specially designed for the
copper steam pipes of marine engines working with high pressures, whilst they are
also applicable to other steam pipes.
My Invention consists in encircling a steam pipe with hoops placed at suitable
distances apart along the pipe and binding it as tightly as possible. The strengthening
hoops may be made of wire or rods of malleable iron, or steel, or bronze or other
suitable metal; and the hoops may be closed and tightened upon the pipe by twisting
the ends of the wire or rod together or in any other convenient way.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to be
hereinafter referred to and showing my improvements.
Figure, 1, on the accompanying sheet of drawings is a side elevation and
figure, 2, is a transverse section showing part of a steam pipe as fitted with my
improvements.
In carrying out my Invention the steam pipe, A, which may be of any suitable
known construction, is encircled with hoops, B, of wire or rods of malleable iron
or steel or bronze or other suitable metal, placed at suitable distances apart along
the pipe, A, and binding it as tightly as possible. Each hoop, B, is shown as being
closed and tightened upon the pipe, A, by twisting the ends of the wire or rod
together.
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 :-
Strengthening steam pipes of copper or other similar metal or alloy by encircling
them with binding hoops of wire or rods of malleable iron or steel or bronze or other
suitable metal substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this Fourteenth day of November 1888.
EDMUND HUNT.
Applicant's Agent.