A New or Improved Portable or Fixed Continuous Firing Kiln for Burning and Staining Glass, China, Tiles, Enamels, and Ceramic Ware, also applicable to other purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 11th July, 1891-Accepted, 26th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Portable or Fixed Continuous Firing Kiln for
Burning and Staining Glass, China, Tiles, Enamels, and Ceramic
Ware, also applicable to other purposes.
I JAMES WILLIAM PAYNE Clerk of 88 Maygrove Road West Hampstead
London do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To provide a portable or fixed continuous firing kiln or oven to be fired with gas
coal coke or any suitable fuel, that shall be quicker and more certain in action than
any at present in use, and so arranged that the products of combustion do not come
in contact with the articles being fired.
To carry out my invention, I construct a kiln or oven composed of two three or
more chambers so placed (preferably over each other in small kilns and side by
side in large ones) and the flues so arranged that the waste heat shall pass from the
hottest or finishing chamber to round the second or third in succession, such flues to
have suitable dampers for directing and regulating the draught. The articles to
be fired to be placed first in the coolest chamber and brought from there into the
next hottest and so on to the finishing chamber thus utilizing most of the heat and
preventing breakages through too sudden change of temperature. In large kilns I
make the partition dividing the chambers movable so as to shift the articles being
fired from one chamber to the next without bringing them out in the open.
The chambers to be made of iron, fire clay or any suitable material and to be made
of any suitable size or shape to suit the articles to be fired, each chamber of kiln to
have ledges for metal plates to slide on upon which the articles to be fired are
placed.
The chambers of kiln to be closed with suitable single or double doors, the doors
to finishing chamber to have peep holes for examining the interior of same during
the operation of firing also peep holes can be placed wherever necessary.
In witness, I, the said James William Payne, have set my hand the 11th day
JAMES WILLIAM PAYNE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Portable or Fixed Continuous Firing Kiln for
Burning and Staining Glass, China, Tiles, Enamels, and Ceramic
Ware, also applicable to other purposes.
I JAMES WILLIAM PAYNE Clerk of 88 Maygrove Road West Hampstead
London 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 —
To provide a portable or fixed continuous firing kiln or oven (to be fired with a
mixture of gas and air where gas is available using ordinary Bunsens burners or
with a modification of combustion chamber can be fired with coal coke oil wood or
any suitable kind of fuel) that shall be quicker more certain and economical than
any at present in use and so arranged that the products of combustion do not come
in contact with the articles being fired.
To carry out my invention I construct kilns or ovens of various sizes composed
of two three or more chambers so placed over each other and the flues so arranged
that the heat shall pass from combustion chamber round the bottom or finishing
chamber to round the next one and so on in succession according to the number of
chambers in each kiln (see drawing B C D Figs. 1, 3) such chambers to be made of
iron, fire clay, or any suitable material and to be made of any size or shape to snit