An- Improvement in Apparatus for Heating, Evaporating, Condensing, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Oct., 1893-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An- Improvement in Apparatus for Heating, Evaporating, Condensing,
and the like.
We, ALPHONSE NORMANDY and FRANK NORMANDY, both of Phillip Street,
Victoria Dock Road, in the County of Essex Manufacturing Engineers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Many apparatus for heating, evaporating, condensing and like operations consist
of coils or groups of tubes through which a hot or a cold fluid passes so as to heat
or cool another fluid surrounding the tubes or conversely. Our invention relates to
means of facilitating access to the tubular portions of such apparatus in order to
cleanse or repair. For this purpose we make the casing which contains the coil or
group of tubes with a lateral opening of sufficient width to allow the coil or group
of tubes to pass through it, and we hinge the coil or group of tubes on a
vertical axis parallel to the sides of such opening. When we desire access to the
coil or group of tubes, we open the door which usually closes tightly the lateral
opening, we undo the joints by which the coil or group is connected to the pipes
for inflow and outflow of fluid and we turn the coil or group of tubes on its hinges
so as to bring it partially or wholly through the lateral opening, thus rendering it
accessible all round. The coil or group of tubes, instead of being itself hinged,
may be fitted to slide along an arm or girder which is hinged, so that when the door
is opened the coil or group of tubes can be drawn forward along the arm and, then,
by swinging the arm to the one side and the other, access can be got to all parts of
the coil or group.
In some cases, we do not hinge the arm, but keep it in a fixed
position, while the coil or group of tubes can be run along it to the side opening.
Also the suspension of the tubes from the arm may be arranged in the manner of a
swivel, so that the coil or group of tubes can be turned round. In all cases the
arm and the suspension of the tubes is so arranged that they can be slid bodily off
from the arm.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1893.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Apparatus for Heating, Evaporating, Condensing,
and the like.
We, ALPHONSE NORMANDY, and FRANK NORMANDY, both of Phillip Street,
Victoria Dock Road, in the County of Essex, Manufacturing Engineers, 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 :-
Many apparatus for heating, evaporating condensing and like operations consist
of coils or groups of tubes through which hot or cold fluid passes so as to heat or
cool another fluid surrounding the tubes or conversely. Our invention relates to
means of facilitating access to the tubular portions of such apparatus in order to
cleanse or repair them. For this purpose we construct and arrange the apparatus
as we shall describe referring to the accompanying drawings.
Figs. 1, 2, and 3 are vertical sections of casings with groups of tubes arranged
according to our invention,
Fig. 4 is a sectional plan of the apparatus shewn in Fig. 1.
Referring first to Figs. 1 and 4, we make the casing A with a lateral opening

page_text: that can be closed tightly by a door B. This opening is of sufficient width to
allow the group of tubes C to pass through it as indicated by the dotted circle C
in Fig. 4. We suspend the group of tubes C by a vertical axis D from an arm E,
so that, after undoing the joints of the pipes connecting to the group C, we can
turn C round, and also can draw it forwards off the pedestal F supporting it and
through the doorway as shewn in Fig. 4. We preferably pivot the arm E so that
it can be swung horizontally to the one side or the other along with the group of
tubes suspended from it.
As shewn in Figs. 2 and 3, the group of tubes C is itself mounted on hinges G G
on which it can be turned so as to be quite accessible outside the doorway. The
jointings of the pipes to the group are made sideways, as shewn at H. When the
group of tubes C is suspended as shewn in Figs. 1 and 4, the same kind of jointings
may be employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim in respect of apparatus for heating, evaporating condensing and the like
consisting of a coil or group of tubes arranged within a casing is :-
1. Providing the casing with a removeable door and suspending the coil or group
of tubes by its axis from an arm along which it can be slid outwards, substantially
as described with reference to Figs. 1 and 4.
2. Providing the casing with a removeable door and mounting the coil or group
of tubes on hinges independently of the door, substantially as described with
reference to Figs. 2 and 3.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1893.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.