Improvements in the Apparatus for the Manufacture of Bleaching Powder (Chloride of Lime) or similar Commodities.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 20th June, 1892-Accepted, 23rd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Apparatus for the Manufacture of Bleaching
Powder (Chloride of Lime) or similar Commodities.
JAMES MORRIS MILNES 144 Brooke Road Stoke Newington London Chemical
& Mechanical Engineer and ALFRED MILNES M.A. (Lond.) F.S.S. 22ª Goldhurst
Terrace South Hampstead, N.W. We do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:
We construct a chamber or series of chambers in one or each of which is an
endless belt of suitable material upon this belt we deliver the lime to wait saturation
or other material of similar character can be so treated.
Dated this Eighteenth day of September One thousand eight hundred and
ninety-one.
JAMES MORRIS MILNES.
ALFRED MILNES.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Apparatus for the Manufacture of Bleaching
Powder (Chloride of Lime) or similar Commodities.
We JAMES MORRIS MILNES of 144 Brooke Road Stoke Newington London in
the County of Middlesex Mechanical and Chemical Engineer and ALFRED
MILNES of 22 Goldhurst Terrace South Hampstead London in the County of
Middlesex of Her Majesty's Civil Service 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:-
Our invention consists of an apparatus designed to meet the requirements of
saturating material with gases or vapours in such manner as to secure a continuous
production of material after saturation. For this purpose we construct a chamber
or series of chambers of any suitable material preferably of slate slabs. In the
chamber or in each of the chambers of a series we place an endless belt of any
suitable material preferably of asbestos cloth revolving upon two or more drums or
cylinders. Upon the roof of the first chamber we place a hopper to receive the
material intended for saturation and at the bottom end of the last chamber we
place a receiving chamber into which the material falls after saturation. The
endless belt is actuated by any mechanical means such as spur gearing or any
convenient method.
The hopper into which the material to be saturated is placed is fitted with an
adjustable admission valve so arranged that the quantity falling through upon the
travelling belt can be increased or diminished at will.
Depending from the roof of each chamber we place at convenient distances a
number of combs for the purpose of turning over the material as it is being carried
along by the travelling belt thus presenting continual change of faces in the
material to be acted upon by the gas.
The gas in the case of chlorine is admitted at a point near the feeding hopper
aud can be drawn off at any convenient point near the receiving hopper.
To more fully explain our invention we will now describe the accompanying
drawing.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal elevation in section.
Fig. 2 is a transverse section in elevation.
A is the feeding hopper. B is the admission valve regulating the sunnly.
Care

page_text: the combs for turning the material as it is
travelling belt. E are the revolving drums
for receiving the saturated material. G is
.outlet.
being carried by the belt. D is the
carrying the belt. F is the hopper
the gas admission pipe. H the gas
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
-claim is
The application of an endless belt for the carrying of substances or materials to
be acted upon by saturating gases herein as substantially set forth.
Dated this Eighteenth day of June 1892.
J. M. 'MILNES,
144, Brooke Road, London, N., Agent.
ALFRED MILNES,
22, Goldhurst Terrace, South Hampstead, N.W.