AN IMPROVED SMOKE CONSUMER AND CONDENSER SUITABLE FOR FACTORIES, RAILWAY ENGINES, STEAM SHIPS, FURNACES, BRICK KILNS, CINDER OVENS, BAKEHOUSES, AND OTHER PURPOSES, NAMELY, VENTILA- TION OF FACTORIES, HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, PLACES OF PUBLIC WORSHIP, PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, DWELLING HOUSES, STREETS, COAL MINES, RAILWAY TUNNELS, MINERAL MINES, IRON WORKS
Year: 1861

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Rydill at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 13th July
1861.
I, GEORGE RYDILL, of Dewsbury, in the County of York, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED SMOKE CONSUMER AND
CONDENSER SUITABLE FOR FACTORIES, RAILWAY ENGINES, STEAM SHIPS, FURNACES,
BRICK KILNS, CINDER OVENS, BAKEHOUSES, AND OTHER PURPOSES, NAMELY, VENTILA-
TION OF FACTORIES, HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, PLACES OF PUBLIC WORSHIP, PUBLIC
INSTITUTIONS, DWELLING HOUSES, STREETS, COAL MINES, RAILWAY TUNNELS,
MINERAL MINES, IRON WORKS," to be as follows:-
As machinery to work a fan might at times become inconvenient, the fol-
lowing mothod is found to give every satisfaction. I set the boiler inner flue
with fire-bricks with a chequered roof or plain invert; the ash place or box
with bricks with a tongue and groove, fitting into each other at the bottom,
top, and ends. I place in the flue any kind of openwork of iron, copper,
brickwork, or stone; the brickwork fixed round the fire forms a retort, which
gives a steady heat to the boiler; hot air is admitted from the boiler, house,
factory, or any other place. The smoke from the fire or fires passes into the
flue or flues, where it is played upon with water springers, hot or cold being
used, which is conveyed from the boiler or boilers by means of a pipe or pipes;
the water playing amongst the smoke as it travels along towards the chimney
causes a combustion and a condensation to take place, which washes the carbon
and sulphur out of the heated body, which makes its way out of the flue, leaving

page_text: a white vapour to rise from the chimney. The draft created by the pressure
of water from the boiler or boilers, and the combustion of the same in the flue,
is so great that no chimney is required to create a draft. Longitudinal pipes
fixed in the flue containing water answer the same purpose as a tubular
boiler. The water that is thrown into the flues, chimney, or openings by the
springers, worm, fountain, or other contrivance is collected, being valuable for
chemical purposes.
Railway or any other kind of engine having an outward casing over or
around the boiler, at the same time receiving air underneath the cover or at
any other part, allowing the air which will be collected to enter the fire-box
through openings in or over the fire; the same will allow the fire-box door to
be closed; the steam jet, which is now used to cause a draft and condense the
smoke can be dispensed with by the water springers being introduced, which
will condense the smoke, the smoke of the engine chimney to be carried
through a tube or tubes where water springers are fixed, receive the water
from a boiler. The steam escaping from the engine takes its present course.
Steam ships can work the vapour behind the vessel out of the sides or
otherwise by means of the water springers; the springers throwing out the
water to condense the smoke, hot air can be taken over the door the same as
in any other fire-box. This principle of draft and ventilation allows ventila-
tion to be obtained in any place whatever on sea or land, causing the engine
and boiler house to be perfectly ventilated, as well as every cabin or room in
the vessel or vessels.
Coal mines, railway tunnels, and mineral mines of every description can be
ventilated by the means of water springers in the same way, causing the water
that now exists in coal mines to become useful and valuable by causing a draft
to be obtained with safety in any portion of the pit, and by having a supply
of water at the top, or from any other elevated position, conducting the same
down by means of a pipe or pipes.
Iron works where smelting and other furnaces are at work, and fires of
every other description, smoke can be condensed along a tube or pipe made from
any material, and conducted over the fire-place door of any boiler, provision
being made for that purpose, and with the aid of a little fire and air this
smoke can be consumed partially and the carbon is condensed, so that there
remains a simple vapour without nuisance.
Smoke, from whatever source it comes, can be consumed and condensed
by water applied either by machinery or otherwise, the smoke being conducted
into a flue where the hot or cold water springers are.
Dust arising from rag machines, shakers, and from all other machines where

page_text: dust is made, can be condensed by water springers, hot or cold, or steam, which
causes a draft, thus saving the working of a fan, and lays the dust, which can
be conducted into any place made for its collection. The grate bar is easily
made, and so formed as to answer for this method of burning smoke, and pre-
venting the bar from running and expanding, as the variation of the bar
causes different drafts to act upon the bar by the cover of the fire, and causing
the air to act more upon the sides of the grate bar, and giving a greater
regularity of draft.