IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING THE WATER FROM THE STEAM GENERATED IN STEAM BOILERS
Year: 1884

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I, EMIL CAPITAINE of 89 Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING THE WATER FROM THE STEAM GENERATED IN STEAM
BOILERS to be as follows:-
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These improvements have for object the prevention of the entrance of wet steam
into the cylinders of steam engines, for which purpose the interior of the steam
pipe or conduit (which is made of a suitable section) is fitted with a number of wires
or metallic strips in the form of a brush or set out at equal distances apart, and so
as to assume a vertical or somewhat oblique position relatively to the axis of the
passage of the steam. In some cases, the steam pipe or conduit is fitted, partly,
with wires or metallic strips and partly with small vertical tubes open at their ends
to the water or steam in the boiler, against which tubes the mixed steam and water
impinges before it reaches the wires or metallic strips.
The separated water falls down into a receptacle placed lower than the steam
pipe whence it is blown off or drawn off for further use in the boiler, or
otherwise.
EMIL CAPITAINE,
Agent.

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I, EMIL CAPITAINE of 89 Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex, Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING THE WATER FROM THE STEAM GENERATED
STEAM BOILERS" a communication to me from abroad by M. Schmidt of München
in the German Empire, Engineer, and in what manner the saine is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
These improvements have for object the prevention of the entrance of wet steam
into the cylinders of steam engines, and elsewhere where dry steam is required, for
which purpose the interior of a portion, or it may be of the whole of the steam pipe
or steam conduit, which is made of a suitable section, is fitted with or has cast into
it a number of wires or metallic strips either in the form of a brush or set out at
suitable distances apart, and so as to assume a vertical or oblique position
relatively to the axis of the passage of the steam. In some cases it is preferred,
instead of providing the wires in the steam pipe or steam conduit, to provide a
separate chest or chamber within the steam generator, to which chest or chamber
the steam pipe is connected or with which it is in communication.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings:-
Fig 1 shews a series of wires arranged in a cast iron steam pipe a entered within
the steam chest of a boiler. The wires b are cast in. The particles of water fall
down along the wires, collect at the bottom of the pipe a and pass back again into
the boiler through the tube c.
In Fig 2 the wired space, is formed by the plates a, a¹ between which the wires
are arranged, the steam passing through the wires before it can reach the steam
pipe a. c is the drain tube into the boiler.
In Fig 3 two water separating pipes are shewn provide with oblique wires.
Fig 4 shews an arrangement that may provided outside the boiler, a being the
water separating space, b the wires and c the drain tube.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manuer the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
An apparatus for separating water from steam formed by the provision of. wires
or metallic strips within the steam pipe or conduit or within a space in connection
therewith, substantially as described and drawn.
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