AN ECONOMICAL METHOD OF HEATING WATER BEFORE, USING IT IN THE SERVICE OF STEAM BUIL ILERS OF ANY BIND. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William New, of No. 5, Victor Place, Albert
Road, St. Phillip's Marsh, in the City & County of Bristol, Engineer,
for the Invention of "AN ECONOMICAL METHOD OF HEATING WATER BEFORE,
USING IT IN THE SERVICE OF STEAM BUIL
ILERS OF ANY
BIND.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William New at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th July 1870.
I, WILLIAM NEW, of No. 5, Victor Place, Albert Road, St. Phillip's
Marsh, in the City & County of Bristol, Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN ECONOMICAL METHOD OF HEATING
WATER BEFORE USING IT IN THE SERVICE OF STEAM BOILERS OF ANY KIND,"
to be as follows:
Through or into that pipe of the steam engine called the exhaust
steam pipe, and which for this purpose may be considerably enlarged, I
insert another pipe of any desirable metal or a coil of pipes, into which I
force water from the ordinary force pump of the engine, or any other

page_text: force pump, or by an injector, and as the water enters in at one end of
this pipe or coil of pipes it will by the time it gets at the further or
outlet end, or that end which enters into the boiler, have become
sufficiently hot to supply the boiler.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William New in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 25th January 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
NEW, of No. 5, Victor Place, Albert Road, Saint Phillip's Marsh, in the
City and County of Bistol, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said William New, Her special licence that I,
the said William New, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said William New, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN ECONOMICAL METHOD OF
HEATING WATER BEFORE USING IT IN THE SERVICE OF STEAM BOILERS OF ANY
KIND," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
New, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William New, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
:-
This is an Invention for the improvement in steam engines so far as

page_text: regards the heating of the water to be forced into the boiler for
generating steam. Through or into that pipe of the steam engine called
the exhaust steam pipe, and which for this purpose will be considerably
enlarged, I insert another pipe of any desirable material, or a coil of pipes.
into which I force water from the ordinary force pump of the engine, or
any other force pump, or by an injector, and as the water enters in at
one end of this pipe or coil of pipes it will by the time it gets at the
further or outlet end, or that end which enters into the boiler, have
become sufficiently hot to supply the boiler with hot instead of cold
water. By this means I not only utilize the exhaust steam that escapes
and goes off through the exhaust steam pipe, but I supply the boiler
with hot water as it may be required, as cold water can be constantly
forced into the pipe or pipes passing through the exhauster either from
a well or other convenient source, and where water is pumped from a
tank or tub, and it be unnecessary to force any more water into the
boiler through the heater, I insert a check valve or not, as the case may
be, to prevent the water coming out of the boiler; and I also insert a
tap in the heater pipe, so that the water may be passed through the
heater into the tank or tub, thereby making the water in them hot
previous to its being forced through the heater into the boiler. This,
however, is not a necessity, but may be done when the boiler is
sufficiently full of water. I also insert in the exhaust pipe itself
another pipe that should there be at any time a tendency of the engine
to prime, or any superfluous water from other causes have become
present in the exhaust pipe, it may flow off and a saving of water
further effected. I also insert two taps in the pump pipe and supply a
duplicate. blank flange to be bolted into the exhaust pipe that should
there at any time be a possibility of the heater fouling by the using of
foul water or any other cause, the pumps will pump it into the boiler in
the ordinary way while the heater is being repaired.
This arrangement or apparatus is applicable to all kinds of engines,
either fixed, portable, locomotive, or marine, and can be made in either
wrought or cast iron, copper, or brass. The attached Drawing will
sufficiently describe the principle.
A, A, is the exhaust pipe; B, B, B, is the heater, the pipe or coil of
pipes through which the cold water is forced to become heated before
reaching the boiler; C´is a check valve which may be used or not
as required; D is a tap and pipe through which the water can be

page_text: pumped when no more is required for the boiler; E is a pipe and tap
running from the exhaust pipe to relieve it of any condensed water, or
from priming of the boiler; F, F, pipe- and tap to turn the cold water
into the boiler should the heater foul; G, tap to turn the water off the
heater should the heater foul; H, blank flange for exhaust pipe when
undergoing repair.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, what I claim and
desire to be secured to me by Letters Patent is, the said Invention for
an economical method of heating water before using it in the service of
steam boilers of any kind, substantially as described in the foregoing
Specification and illustrated in the accompanying: Drawings, or any
mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said William New, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.