IMPROVED MEANS OF AND APPARATUS FOR EMPLOYING VAPOURS, GASES, AND THE HEAT DERIVED FROM COMBUSTIBLE MATTERS
Year: 1863

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Louis Meyer at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th September
1863.
I, LOUIS MEYER, of No. 36, Rue de Marseille, in the City of Paris, in the
Empire of France, Glass Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVED MEANS OF AND APPARATUS FOR EMPLOYING VAPOURS,
GASES, AND THE HEAT DERIVED FROM COMBUSTIBLE MATTERS," to be as follows:-
The application of my Invention provides all focuses or fire-places in which
are disengaged vapours, gases, heat, or smoke, with the means of utilizing them
totally without any loss, and to perfect consumption while leaving no trace of
vapour or smoke.
The means and apparatus suitable to the application of this new method are
numerous and variable in their form. The pressure of the air and the gases
may be worked either by pump or fan arranged in different ways and in
variable forms, but nevertheless always in such wise and of such material that
they may resist the action of the suctions or aspirations for which they are
intended to serve, and that their power of suction as well as their forcing
power are suited to their proportions. To make use of the totality of the
vapour or steam which may be produced in any machine without any escape-
ment or exit of steam visible in the air, I join or adapt to such machine, no
matter what its shape or dimensions, a supplementary apparatus of a con-
struction analogous to that of a cylinder, or even of any form, provided always
that it may receive the escapements of steam from the ordinary cylinder, and

page_text: that the same movement may be communicated to it as that of the piston of
the motor engine. The escapements of steam from the cylinder thus received
in the apparatus by the same movement as that of the piston are compressed
and conducted into the supplementary apparatus, and by this same movement.
brought back into the boiler. As regards the method of construction it suffices
that the apparatus shall have no other tendency than to receive the escapements
of steam, contain them, and bring them back from thence to the boiler by
means of the force of the piston of the motor machine. Thus the steam
passes successively from the boiler to the piston, from the piston to my improved
apparatus, and from thence to the boiler, and so on indefinitely. The
apparatus illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawing forming part
of this my Provisional Specification, and which will serve in a great number of
cases, will give an idea of my method.
Figure 1 represents a forcing apparatus in the shape of a fan or ventilator,
traversed by an axle carrying four paddles, and set in motion in any way like
an ordinary fan. By the opening of the pipe A a communication is established
by conduits terminating in the focus or fire-place, and by suction a draught
of the strength required, the current of the draught divides at B into two parts
and goes on each side to the openings C, C, in the centre of the apparatus,
thus sucked and forced by the action of the paddles, it leaves by the part or
opening D. Figure 2 represents a side view of the apparatus A, B, C,
indicating, as at Figure 1, the draught thus established. The motion of the
axle mounted or furnished with four paddles, forces or drives out at the part
or opening D that which it had previously drawn or sucked in, and the vapour,
gas, heat, or smoke may be conducted in such direction, or into such receiver
as may be desired, and into apparatus suitable either to concentrate, to purify,
or to bring them back to their primitive focus or fire-place, or into any other
place where they may be utilized until perfectly consumed, and no trace left
either of vapour or smoke. An apparatus may be arranged so as to establish
a draught in one or more focuses or fire-places at once; it may also conduct
into several focuses or fire-places that which it has drawn from one. It may
also be arranged for an entire locality. It may also be used to expel foul air
from and introduce fresh air into factories, mining shafts, and other places.
Figure 8 illustrates an application of my Invention to a diving bell for the
purpose of drawing out foul and introducing fresh air into it. A, part of
a boat; B, cross bar, wheel, or drum, on which is rolled a cable; D, cable
rolled on B, and leading from the boat to the diving machine; E, diving
machine. The cable must contain two tubes, one for the suction of air from
and the other for forcing air into the diving machine; it should also contain

page_text: a wire for establishing electrical communication between the boat and the
diving bell. The apparatus may be worked by hand; but if a steam boat is
employed, by the means already set forth.
My Invention may be applied.not only using a fan or ventilator, but also
using suction and force pumps.