House Refuse Destructor for such as Vegetable, Fish, and other: similar Substances.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Dec., 1889-Accepted, 4th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
House Refuse Destructor for such as Vegetable, Fish, and other:
similar Substances.
WALTER TUPPER Builder 72 Gloucester Road Kew, Surrey, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A grated receptacle, for the refuse to be destroyed, placed ond raught from fire of
close or open ranges. Having flue space. outside of receptacle for the uninterrupted.
action of the draught when the destructor is fully charged with refuse undergoing the
operation of destruction with provision for feeding, and the removal of residum
(if any).
The feeding is performed by door in front or lid on top provided for the purpose,
and for inspection.
The residum is removed from. & by the flue space beneath grated bottom of the
destructor at the inlet to flue in the same way as the cleanings of flue.
WALTER TUPPER.
: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
House Refuse Destructor for such as Vegetable, Fish, and other
similar Substances.
WALTER TUPPER, Builder &c. 72 Gloucester Road Kew, Surrey, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to he
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following, statement :-
:
By destructor" is meant a combination of the requisite parts indicated in the
following particulars, all of which parts may vary more or less, in shape, size, position,
or method of construction; dependant upon the primary uses of, and the kind of range:
or stove to which it is applied-for the formation of a chamber or "receptacle" for
the refuse to be destroyed, located, on line of draught from fire, with flue space outside
of receptacle for the uninterrupted action of the draught when .receptacle is charged
with refuse. undergoing the operation of destruction...
My invention may be used with any range stove or heating apparatus from which
the waste heat and other products of combustion escaping into the flue by its draught,
and which draught is made to impinge on the receptacle for the refuse to be destroyed,
such receptacle having flue space around, through, or over for the uninterrupted action
of the draught when in operation. By receptacle" is meant the chamber or space
in which the refuse is placed for, and in which the operation of destruction is
performed, and to which receptacle the refuse to be destroyed, is conveyed by any
ordinary and simple means direct.
There may be one or more receptacles, passages or flues, through or around same,
for the purpose of dividing the body of refuse, and exposing the greatest area of
surface to the action of the destructive elements carried by the draught. The plates,
gratings, tiles, or bricks forming the divisions or walls of these flues, may be upright,
or inclined either way, for the object of increasing the efficiency of the operation, by
acting as checks to or favouring the current, & may be grated "wholly or in part. The
front may form a substitute for skirting in the ordinary range, which is a most
economical mode for its application to, and a constructive improvement in a
"skirting" range, or as covings, having the necessary feeding and inspection
doors, lids, shoots, covers or slides, with flanges cast on back of front to receive
flue divisions in shallow depths. The draught after passing through or around or
over, escapes into the common flue. A check may be introduced to divert downwards
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page_text: the draught at its exit from receptacle. The bottom "grated" wholly or in part, of
suitable form size and shape may be in one or more parts. The "feeding" may he
performed at any time without interruption; to its other operations, by door in front,
by door; lid; shoot, or opening (with cover) on top through which the refuse is dropped
into receptacle.
In operation, the work of destruction commences and continues from the time the
refuse is placed in the receptacle, the draught passing by its flue or flues, outside,
beneath, over or through into the common flue, all of which flues are under control by
the damper or dampers, heating and driving off the moisture contained in the refuse
as vapour. The result of this operation, combined with the first impact of the draught
upon the receptacle and its contents through the grated surfaces, is, to arrest and more
completely destroy the coarser particles of combustion.being carried by the draught
into the flue, thereby acting to this extent as a "smoke consumer," drying and reducing
the contents of destructor to an ash, of so small bulk, as not to appreciably increase
the amount of cleanings from flue to which it is connected or require any special
provision for its removal beyond the flue space which in ordinary cases will be beneath
the bottom grating of receptacle. The draught may be diverted, to act on a receptacle
(within practical limits) to any convenient position.
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For all ordinary uses a small destructor chamber or receptacle, for which space is to
be found, in the otherwise unused space at back of skirtings, or covings in
ranges sufficient for the object and purposes of my invention.
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The front
In self setting ranges or stoves, a receptacle suited to its form will be used.
Figs. 1, 2 & 3 shew one form of the adaption to an ordinary range.
forming back skirting to range. The top utilized as a secondary hot plate.
Fig. 1. Elevation, as seen, with range removed.
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