Improvements in Gas Washers or Scrubbers when more than One are Employed.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Nov., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 17th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 21st Sept., 1888
Improvements in Gas Washers or Scrubbers when more than One
are Employed.
I, SAMUEL CUTLER of Providence Iron Works, Millwall, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the convenience in use and economy of construction
together with reduced area of ground required for gas washers or scrubbers where a
number are employed for the same or similar operation.
The invention consists in making ono very large vessel and dividing it by partitions
into as many compartments, or chambers as are required to effect the proper purifica-
tion. The exterior form of the vessel may be in plan a long parallelogram, in which
case the house for containing the necessary distributing apparatus may extend from
end to end of the top of the vessel, or the vessel may be a shorter parallelogram with
a central partition which is subdivided so as to form the requisite number of chambers.
Another arrangement may be made by having a vessel of the form of a parallelogram
divided by a certain number of partitions with offsets arranged so as to serve as
additional chambers, or the chambers may be made of a hexagonal or octagonal
shape, but so grouped together as to admit of one or more sides of one chamber
serving as the side or sides of other chambers. By these means great economy in
construction is effected while the area on which they stand is much reduced and the
convenience for arranging the appliances for distributing the liquid with which they
are supplied is greatly increased.
Datad this 25th day of November 1887

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gas Washers or Scrubbers when more than One
are Employed.
I, SAMUEL CUTLER of Providence Iron Works, Millwall, in the County of
Middlesex, 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 has for its object the convenience in use and economy of construc-
tion together with reduced area of ground required for gas washers or scrubbers
where a number are employed for the same or similar operation.
The invention consists in making one large vessel and dividing it by partitions into
as many compartments or chambers as are required. The exterior form of the vessel
may be in plan a long parallelogram as Fig. 1, in which case the house for containing
the necessary distributing apparatus may extend from end to end of the top of the
vessel, or the vessel may be a shorter parallelogram with a central partition which is
subdivided so as to form the requisite number of chambers as Fig. 2. Another
arrangement may be made by having a vessel of the form of a parallelogram divided
by a certain number of partitions with offsets arranged so as to serve as additional
chambers as Fig. 3,- -or the chambers may be made of a hexagonal or octagonal shape
as Figs. 4 and 5, but so grouped together as to admit of one or more sides of one
chamber serving as the side or sides of other chambers. By these means great
economy in construction is effected while the area on which they stand is much
reduced and the convenience for arranging the appliances for distributing the liquid
with which they are supplied is greatly increased.
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,
Grouping scrubbers, washers or other vessels in which liquids are employed for the
purifying of gas, as herein described and shown on the drawing.
Dated this 17th day of August 1888
W. H. BENNETT,
Agent for the Applicant.