Improvements in Apparatus for Separating Water from Steam.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Sept., 1899
Complete Specification Loft 20th June 1000 Accented not hel 4000
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Separating Water from Steam.
I, GEORGE HEBDEN, of the Middleton Engineering Works Limited, Middleton,
in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:.
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This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for separating water
from steam and has for its object to render such apparatus more reliable and
effective in action than heretofore has been the case.
To this end my improved apparatus consists of a box or casing preferably
cylindrical, having at its top an inlet and a lid bolted to its bottom formed
centrally with a pipe projecting from each side thereof.
The outer end of the said pipe forms the steam outlet and the inner or upper
end is enlarged in diameter and formed with a partially coned and preferably
cylindrical hood the coned part being situated concentrically below the said inlet
and the cylindrical part adapted to surround the enlarged part of the pipe which
is formed with vertical apertures..
The steam passing through the said inlet strikes the said cone and the water
or other foreign matter such as dirt contained therein is thereby precipitated
to the bottom of the said casing or box from whence it runs off through an
opening in the bottom of the casing or box whilst the steam freed from water
passes through the said apertures down the said pipe out of the apparatus.
If deemed necessary the ends of the said casing or box may be flanged so as to
hold a jacket of non-conducting material.
When applying my improved apparatus or steam separator to the steam supply
pipe of a steam engine I prefer to fix same directly over the stop valve so that
the steam will enter the valve box in a perfectly dry condition.
Dated this 19th day of September 1899.
Improvements in Apparatus for Separating Water from Steam.
1, GEORGE HEBDEN, of the Middleton Engineering Works Limited, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for separating water

page_text: from steam and has for its object to render such apparatus more reliable and
effective in action than heretofore has been the case.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused
to be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section and Fig. 2 a cross section on line A-A of Fig. 1
of a water and steam separator constructed in accordance with my invention.
Fig. 3 is an elevation showing the same applied to the cylinder of a steam
engine.
In carrying out my invention and referring to Figs. 1 & 2, my improved
apparatus consists of a box or casing a preferably cylindrical, having at its
top a flanged steam inlet and a lid e bolted to its bottom formed centrally
with a pipe d, d projecting from each side thereof.
The outer or lower end of the said pipe is flanged and forms the steam
outlet and the inner or upper end d is enlarged in diameter and formed with
a partially coned and partially cylindrical hood e, f, the coned part e being
situated concentrically below the steam inlet b and the cylindrical part f adapted
to surround the enlarged part 9 of the pipe which is formed with vertical
apertures g¹.
The steam passing through the inlet strikes the cone e and the water
or other foreign matter such as dirt contained therein is thereby precipitated to
the bottom of the casing or box a from whence it runs off through an opening h
in the bottom c of the casing or box whilst the steam freed from water passes
through the apertures g¹ down the pipe d, of the the apparatus.
If deemed necessary both ends of the said casing or box may be flanged so
as to hold a jacket of non-conducting material.
In order to permit of providing the apparatus described with a sight feed
lubricator, I may cast to the side of the casing or box a a boss a screw threaded
externally and adapted to receive internally a tube k leading into the vertical
pipe d,
When applying my improved separator to the steam supply pipe of a steam
engine I prefer to fix same directly over the stop valve as shown in Fig. 3,
so that the steam will enter the valve box in a perfectly dry condition.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
An apparatus for separating water from steam, consisting of a box or casing
having a steam inlet and a steam outlet at opposite points in line with
each other, a water outlet h and internally a pipe a, d' forming an extension
of the said steam outlet and having at its upper end a partly coned and a partly
cylindrical hood e, f and lateral apertures surrounded by the cylindrical part
of the said hood, which latter is concentric with and a short distance below the
said steam inlet, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 19th day of June 1900
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester,
Agents to Applicant.