Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Ventilation.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 1st Oct., 1892-4ccepted, 31st Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Ventilation.
I HUGH SAMUEL SIMESTER of 10 Laurence Pountney Lane in the City of
London Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
follows:-
:―
as
Improved automatic apparatus for governing the flow of air for cleansing the air
and for evaporating fluids.
Consisting of air chambers fitted with diaphragms cones and flaps variously centred
and in some cases with balance adjustable by sliding rack screw or wedge. The
diaphragms cones and flaps may be of gauze wire or other material. Tubes or
other apparatus formed of porous or fibrous absorbent conducting material or tubes
or other apparatus clothed or hung in or outside or both in and outside with porous
or fibrous absorbent conducting material for evaporating fluids to cool, disinfect, or
perfume the air.
The clothing or hanging is made to dip into well which is to hold the fluid to be
evaporated.
The air chambers diaphragms cones and flaps all or any part may be used in
combination with vertical tubes or otherwise and any part of the apparatus may be
used with or without the arrangement for evaporating fluids.
Dated this 1st day of January 1892.
HUGH S. SIMESTER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Ventilation.
I HUGH SAMUEL SIMESTER of 10 Laurence Pountney Lane in the City of
London 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 :-
Improved automatic apparatus for governing the flow of air through tubes or
chambers for cleansing the air and for evaporating fluids.
The apparatus consists of (1) air chambers fitted with diaphragms or cones and
flaps or a series of diaphragms cones or flaps. By this means the air-by impinging
on or passing through the diaphragms cones or flaps-parts with floating blacks and
other impurities and the flow of air is regulated and the too rapid circulation
prevented. The flaps are worked by atmospheric pressure diminishing or increasing
the space for passage of air in proportion to the pressure. The flaps may be
variously centred and in some cases are fitted with balance, the weight of which
may be regulated to pressure by varying the leverage by sliding rod or movable
weight adjustable by rack screw or wedge on rod or by other suitable means.
The diaphragms cones and flaps may be of plain. perforated or woven metal or
other suitable material or may be of absorbent conducting material combining the
evaporation of fluids and regulating the flow of air and (2) tubes or other apparatus
formed of porous or fibrous absorbent conducting material or tubes or other
apparatus clothed or hung in or outside or both in and outside with porous or fibrous
absorbent conducting material for evaporating fluids. The absorbent conductor
may be moulded, milled, woven or in threads and may be of any suitable material
and may be saturated with fluid in any convenient way or by placing the fluid in
well or jacket at any part of the apparatus and bringing the conducting material
and the fluid into contact for evaporating the fluid and imparting to the air passing
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page_text: through or surrounding the apparatus for purifying, cooling, disinfecting or
perfuming the atmosphere.
The air chambers diaphragms cones and flaps-any part or the whole of the
apparatus may be used in combination with tubes or otherwise and with or without
the arrangement for evaporating fluids.
I now proceed to further illustrate my invention by reference to the drawings
Figures 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9 and 10 are sections shewing some of the forms of
application.
A are air chambers B are adjustable balances Care cones D are diaphragms
F are flaps T are tubes and W is well or jacket. B Figs. 4. 9 and 10 are levers
with pin or screw fitting into spiral slot or groove of round plate which by being
turned will travel up or down the lever a distance equal to the diameter of the
spiral slot or groove. B Fig. 7 is a screw lever and B Fig. 8 is a lever or sliding
rod kept in position by springs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is―
1. Apparatus for cleansing and governing the flow of air in tubes by improved
arrangement of air chambers diaphragms cones and flaps with adjustable balance in
combination of the whole or in parts as herein described and
2. Arrangements for evaporating fluids as herein described.
Dated this 1st day of October 1892
HUGH S. SIMESTER.