IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR OPERATING UPON THE ATMOSPHERE VE IN WHICH SHEET ICE OBTAINED BY ARTIFICIAL MEANS IS USED
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Whitworth Nightingale Manager and Secretary
of the Southport Glaciarium and Ice Making Company (Limited) of South-
port in the County of Lancaster, for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN
MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR OPERATING UPON THE ATMOSPHERE VE
IN WHICH SHEET ICE OBTAINED BY ARTIFICIAL MEANS IS USED.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Whitworth
Nightingale at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
30th September 1882.
"
WILLIAM WHITWORTH NIGHTINGALE Manager and Secretary of the Southport
Glaciarium and Ice Making Company (Limited) of Southport in the County of
Lancaster. IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR OPERATING UPON THE
ATMOSPHERE OF APARTMENTS IN WHICH SHEET ICE OBTAINED BY ARTIFICIAL
MEANS IS USED."
In apartments in which sheet ice, obtained by artificial means, is provided for
skating, curling and other uses, the cold from the ice acts upon the moisture in
the apartment and by condensation produces moisture and mistiness or fog and
the object of the invention is to remedy this condition of the atmosphere and the
injurious effects of it.
For this purpose I provide openings from the lower part of such apartments by
preference at a short distance above the surface of the ice therein, and at frequent
intervals all round it for the passage away of the atmosphere therefrom into a
trough or channel provided for the purpose, and into which, such atmosphere is
drawn by a fan or other suitable exhausting. means.
The air thus drawn out is
then forced to circulate through a box or chamber, provided with a circulation of
piping containing brine, or refrigerating, or cooling means adapted to cool such
atmosphere and remove the moisture from it. Any moisture formed in this
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page_text: refrigerating box is allowed to flow therefrom by a suitable syphon pipe into a
receiver for the purpose.
The cooled and dried atmosphere is thence conducted from the refrigerating
chamber by suitable channels to the ceiling, or upper part, of the apartment from
which it has been taken and it is there allowed to flow down into such apartment
through suitable passages, and I prefer vertical pipes for the purpose. To prevent
the too direct flow of the currents of dry, cooled air into the apartment I apply
guards or shields, or baffle plates at a short distance from the mouth of each, to
break the force of the cold currents and aid in distributing them more uniformly
over the surface of the apartment.
These guards, shields or baffle plates are capable of adjustment or may be used
to close any of the inlets.
All the delivery channels I prefer to make of steel or other metal.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Whitworth Nightingale in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 29th March 1883.
WILLIAM WHITWORTH NIGHTINGALE Manager and Secretary of the Southport
Glaciarium and Ice Making Company (Limited) of Southport in the County of
Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR OPERATING UPON THE
ATMOSPHERE OF APARTMENTS IN WHICH SHEET ICE OBTAINED BY ARTIFICIAL
MEANS IS USED"
In apartments in which sheet ice, obtained by artificial means, is provided for
skating, curling and other uses, the cold from the ice acts upon the atmosphere
in the apartment and by condensation produces moisture or mistiness or fog and
the object of the invention is to remedy this condition of the atmosphere and the
injurious effects of it.
For this purpose I provide openings from the lower part of such apartments by
preference at a short distance above the surface of the ice therein and at frequent
intervals all round it for the passage away of the atmosphere therefrom into a
trough or channel provided for the purpose and into which such atmosphere is
drawn by a fan or other suitable exhausting means. The air thus drawn out is
thence forced to circulate through a box or chamber provided with a coil or coils
of piping for the circulation of brine or refrigerating or cooling means adapted to
cool such atmosphere and remove the moisture from it. Any fluid formed from the
moisture in this refrigerating box is allowed to flow therefrom by a suitable syphon
pipe into a receiver for the purpose.
The cooled and dried atmosphere is thence conducted from the refrigerating
chamber by suitable channels to the ceiling or upper part of the apartment from
which it has been taken and it is there allowed to flow down into such apartment
through suitable passages.and I prefer vertical pipes for the purpose. To prevent
the too direct flow of the currents of dry cooled air into the apartment I apply
guards or shields or baffle plates at a short distance from the mouth of each pipe
or passage to break the force of the cold currents and aid in distributing them more
uniformly over the surface of the apartment.
The guards shields or baffle plates are capable of adjustment or may be used
to close any of the inlets.
All the delivery channels I prefer to make of steel or other metal.
Having thus described my invention and means which I adopt in carrying the
same into effect I would have it understood that what I claim as my Improvements
is the employment of means or apparatus for operating upon the atmosphere of
apartments in which sheet ice obtained by artificial means is used, substantially as
described.
In witness whereof I the said William Whitworth Nightingale have hereunto
set my hand and seal this twenty sixth day of March One thousand eight
hundred and eighty three.
WILLIAM WHITWORTH NIGHTINGALE. (L.S.)