Improved Water or Liquid Distributor.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 16th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 28th May, 1992
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Water or Liquid Distributor.
1 ALEXANDER WADDELL of Newtownards in the County of Down in Ireland
Manager of Gas Works do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to the distribution of water in scrubbers used in the
manufacture of illuminating and other gases and in apparatus employed by chemical
manufacturers and others.
For these purposes I employ a number of threads or strands of wool or other
suitable material drawn together at one end into the mouth of the pipe which
supplies the water to a gas scrubber or other apparatus and at their opposite ends
passing through the meshes or interstices of a netting frame or other suitable
contrivance to keep them separate and conduct the flow of water to and discharge
it at different points or parts in the horizontal plane of the scrubber or other
apparatus; or may employ a perforated pipe or a perforated tray or pan having
tubes fitted to the perforations therein and supplied with water which I may
discharge by short threads or strands of the material I have mentioned passing
through the perforations or tubes in such pipe, tray or pan.
The netting frame or other suitable contrivance may be so constructed as with
the aid of hinges or pivots to collapse in order to be more easily introduced into or
removed from the scrubber or other apparatus in which it is intended to be or has
been placed.
Dated this 16th day of July 1891.
HYNDMAN & DICKSON,
6, Chichester Street, Belfast, Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Water or Liquid Distributor.
I ALEXANDER WADDELL of Newtownards in the County of Down in Ireland
Manager of Gas Works 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 :-
My invention relates to the distribution of water in scrubbers used in the
manufacture of illuminating and other gases and in apparatus employed by chemical
manufacturers and others. For these purposes I employ a number of threads or
strands of wool or other suitable material drawn together at one end into the
mouth of the pipe which supplies the water to a gas scrubber or other apparatus,
and at their opposite ends passing through the meshes or interstices of or
eyelets in or upon a netting, frame or other contrivance to keep them separate
and apart from each other and thus to conduct the flow of water to and
discharge it uniformly or otherwise at different points or parts in the horizontal
plane of the scrubber or other apparatus. Or I may employ a perforated pipe
or a perforated tray or pan having tubes fitted to or fixed in the perforations
therein and supplied with water which I may discharge by short threads or
strands of the material I have mentioned passing through the perforations or tubes
in such pipe, tray or pan. But I prefer the netting or frame hereinafter
mentioned and described for this purpose.
I may employ several of such perforated or other pipes or perforated trays or
pans furnished with threads or strands of wool or other suitable material arranged
in the manner I have described.

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The netting, frame or other suitable contrivance may be so constructed as, with
the aid of hinges or pivots, to collapse in order to be more easily introduced into or
removed from the scrubber or other apparatus in which it is intended to be or has
been placed.
I prefer to make such collapsible frame on the principle of the lazy-tongs or
umbrella frame joint and I attach it to the top of the scrubber or other apparatus
by means of a socket or coupling screwed on the top of the pipe and leaving an
annular interval or space between them into which the ends of the threads or
strands are drawn, which pipe is screwed into a flanged ring attached to the top of
the scrubber by rivets or bolts or some obvious modification of such arrangement.
In carrying out this arrangement I employ a frame consisting of a number of
ribs pivoted alternately to the socket or coupling above mentioned and to a fixed
collar on the lower end of a sliding rod passing down through the socket or
coupling for the purpose of expanding or contracting the frame and a netting
which furnish with eyelets to hold the threads or strands in position and which
I attach to the frame but I do not confine myself to this construction.
And in order that my said invention may be more particularly described and
fully understood I shall now proceed to refer to the several figures on the sheet
of drawings hereunto annexed, the same letters of reference being used throughout
all the figures to indicate the same or corresponding parts thereof.
Fig. I is a general elevation of a gas scrubber showing a water cistern at
the top with a glass-sight feed pipe attached to a syphon pipe from the cistern to
the water distributor in the scrubber; also a man-hole for the examination or
arrangement of the water distributor and other purposes.
Fig. II is a sectional elevation of the scrubber showing the water distributor
which consists of a collapsible frame suspended within the scrubber from a socket
or coupling in the top or roof thereof and having a flat headed rod, for its
expansion and contraction, passing through such socket or coupling, a gland to
keep the rod airtight, the syphon pipe, also a short piece of larger pipe forming a
feed mouth attached to the socket or coupling concentrically so as to leave
between them an annular chamber into which one end of each thread or strand
is drawn, and a netting carried by the collapsible frame and furnished with eyelets
for holding threads or strands of wool or other material in position; also the
means of attaching such water distributor to the scrubber.
Fig. III. is a half plan of the collapsible frame and the netting with eyelets as
expanded for distribution of the water.
Fig. IV. is an elevation of the collapsible frame as contracted for introduction
into or removal from the scrubber and attached by a socket or coupling to the
feed pipe into which the ends of the threads or strands are drawn and the rod
which passes through the socket or coupling for the expansion or contraction of the
frame aud
Fig. V. is a plan of the collapsible frame shewn in Fig. IV.
a and a¹ are the cistern and scrubber; b is a stop cock on the syphon feed
pipe, c, having a sight feed, d; e is; the socket or coupling to which I attach the
syphon pipe, c, and the feed mouth, f, and also the collapsible frame and netting, gi
A is the flat headed rod for expanding and contracting the frame and i is the gland
to keep the rod, h, airtight; k is the annular chamber between the socket or
coupling, e, and the feed mouth, f, into which the distributing threads or strands are
drawn and in which they receive their supply of water; is a flanged ring on the
top of the scrubber into which I screw or fix the feed mouth, f; m, m, are eyelets
through which I pass the threads or strands of wool or other material, n, n, from
the pipe k; and p is the manhole in the scrubber.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is-
1. The use, in gas scrubbers and other analogous apparatus, of threads or

page_text: strands of wool or other suitable material arranged and employed substantially in
the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and shewn in the drawings
hereunto annexed.
2. The use, in gas scrubbers and other analogous apparatus, of a collapsible
netting and frame constructed and employed substantially in the manner and for
the purposes hereinbefore described and shewn in the drawings hereunto annexed
and
3. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting my improved water
distributor constructed and employed substantially in the manner and for the
purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated by the several drawings on the sheet
hereunto annexed.
Dated this 14th day of April 1892.
HYNDMAN & DICKSON,
6, Chichester Street, Belfast, Agents for Applicant.