Improvements in Means for Effecting the Proper Distribution of Water over Condenser Pipes and for analogous purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application. 9th Dec, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Sept., 1897-Accepted, 9th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Sept., 1897-Accepted, 9th Oct., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Effecting the Proper Distribution of
Water over Condenser Pipes and for analogous purposes.
I HOWARD THEOPHILUS WRIGHT of 16 Great George Street in the City of
Westminster Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
My Invention has for its object to provide simple and efficient means for dis-
tributing water efficiently over condenser pipes and for analogous purposes.
According to my invention I apply to the outsides or inside of the
pipes, over or through which the water is to flow projections or ridges so disposed
as to prevent the water from taking a direct downward course so as to be liable
to leave portions of the pipe with which the water does not come properly into
contact. These projections or ridges are arranged in such a manner that the
water is caused to move round or partly round the pipes or to deviate from a straight
course as it descends. The said projections or ridges may be formed on or in the
pipes or be otherwise applied to the pipes; for example by wrapping or coiling
a wire, or wires, or a strip, or strips, round, or partly round, the pipes throughout
their length, or throughout any desired portion of their length.
Dated this 9th day of December 1896.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in Means for Effecting the Proper Distribution of
Water over Condenser Pipes and for analogous purposes.
I, HOWARD THEOPHILUS WRIGHT, of 16 Great George Street, in the City of
Westminster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
My Invention has for its object to provide simple and efficient means for dis-
tributing water efficiently over condenser pipes and for analogous purposes,
for instance for similar application to cooler pipes.
According to my Invention I apply wire netting to the outsides or inside of the
pipes over or through which the water is to flow, the said wire netting being so
disposed and applied as hereinafter described as to prevent the water from
taking a direct downward course so as to be liable to leave portions of the pipe
with which the water does not come properly into contact. The wire netting is

page_text: arranged and applied to the pipes as shewn (applied to the exterior of a pipe)
in the accompanying drawing whereby the water is caused to deviate from a
straight course as it descends.
The wires a as shewn in the drawing are crossed or interlaced to form pieces
of netting each in length about equal to the circumference of the pipe, and of a
width to cover any desired length of the. pipe, the said wires a being connected
to marginal wires b which, when the wires are wrapped round the pipe are con-
nected by the tying wires c.
The wires may be crossed or interlaced so as to make netting with meshes of
square figure or figure other than that shewn.
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:
The application to condenser pipes, or other pipes (such as cooler pipes for
instance) over which water or other liquid is to flow, of wire netting arranged and
applied as hereinbefore explained.
1007
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.