IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO FURNACES FOR UTILIZING THE WASTE HEAT FROM GAS-WORKS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the firm of Haseltine Lake
& Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings London for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO FURNACES FOR UTILIZING THE WASTE
HEAT FROM GAS-WORKS Communicated to him from abroad by Cher
Pompée de Bondini, of Constantinople, Turkey.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th August 1882.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine Lake & C° Patent
Agents, Southampton Buildings London "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO
FURNACES FOR UTILIZING THE WASTE HEAT FROM GAS-WORKS" [A communi-
cation to him from abroad by Cher Pompée de Boudini, of Constantinople, Turkey.]
The object of this Invention is to utilize for the heating of industrial furnaces,
baking ovens, stoves or the like the enormous quantity of caloric or heat, which
after having served for the distillation of gas for lighting purposes has heretofore
been allowed to escape without being turned to commercial advantage, and the said
Invention comprises an improved furnace which is economical in its working and
provides for an uninterrupted production.
In carrying the said Invention into practise I form within or adjacent to, a wall
constituting part of the gas-works a horizontal conduit or passage which
is designed to receive the heat from all the gas-distilling furnaces situated
behind the said wall and conduct it to the main shaft or chimney of the works.
The said conduit or passage may be arranged to feed two furnaces suitably
arranged with respect to each other; the heated gases enter from the aforesaid
conduit through a suitable flue or passage and traverse the said furnaces in all
directions in a space formed in a double vault or arch and a double base or bottom.
It is possible also to build furnaces above the gas-furnaces with an independent
body supported upon the wall which separates each gas-furnace, the opening of the
furnace being behind the wall of the works

page_text: The said source of heat is moreover especially applicable to the heating of long
underground furnaces or ovens and more particularly to the heating of those
employed for baking biscuits
Since the source of heat is permanent both by night and day throughout the
year it is evident that the furnaces fed in this manner will also act the same both
day and night throughout the year.
By my invention I am therefore enabled to provide for a continuous production
to economise the manual labour required in stoking and to entirely dispense with
all cost for fuel.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th February 1883.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co, Patent
Agents, Southampton Buildings, London "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO
FURNACES FOR UTILIZING THE WASTE HEAT FROM GAS-WORKS." A communication
to me from abroad by Cher Pompée de Bondini, of Constantinople, Turkey.
The object of this invention is to utilize for the heating of industrial furnaces,
baking ovens, drying stoves, or the like, the enormous quantity of caloric or heat,
which after having served for the manufacture of gas for lighting purposes, has
heretofore been allowed to escape without being turned to commercial advantage,
and the said invention comprises an improved furnace which is economical and
continuous in its operation
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a furnace constructed in accordance with the
said invention
Figure 2 is a horizontal section, and
Figure 3 is a transverse section of the same
A represents the wall of a gas-works into which passes a horizontal conduit or
passage B which is designed to receive the heat from all the gas furnaces situated
behind the said wall, and conduct it to the main shaft or chimney of the works.
The said conduit or passage is arranged to feed two furnaces C, C the heated
gases entering at D through suitable flues or passages and traversing the said
furnaces in all directions in the space c, c comprised between the double vault or
arch a a, a a, and the double base or bottom 6 b, b b.
It is possible to build furnaces above the gas furnaces with an independent body
supported upon the wall which separates each gas furnace from the adjacent ones
the opening or mouth of the furnace being behind the wall of the works.
This source of heat is, moreover, applicable in a special manner to the heating of
long tunnel-shaped furnaces or ovens, and more particularly to the heating of
those employed for baking biscuits.

page_text: Since the source of heat is permanent both by night and day throughout the
year it is evident that the furnaces fed in this manner will also act the same both
day and night throughout the year.
By my invention I am therefore enabled to provide for a continuous production
to economize the manual labour required in stoking, and to entirely dispense with
all cost for fuel.
Having thus fully described the said invention as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the same, I wish it understood
that I claim
First. The utilization of the waste heat from gas furnaces in the manner above
described for heating industrial furnaces, baking ovens, drying stoves, or the like
Second. The improved furnace constructed and arranged to operate continuously,
substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawing, for the
purposes specified
In witness whereof I the said William Robert Lake have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Fifth day of February in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty three.