Improvements in Water-cooling Apparatus.
Year: 1891

page_text: Da of Application, 12th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 19th Nov.. 1891-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Water-cooling Apparatus.
I, EMIL CAPITAINE of Eilenburg in the Kingdom of Prussia in the German
Empire, Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The apparatus of this invention consists of an outer casing in which the several
main organs or parts are located one above another. At the bottom there is a
centrifugal pump. Above this and driven by the same vertical shaft there is a
ventilator or fan. Upon the rotation of the vertical shaft, water collected at the
bottom of the casing is driven through a pipe by the centrifugal pump to the place
where it is to be used for cooling purposes or otherwise has heat communicated to
it. It is returned in the heated state into the casing at the top where it is received
upon a reaction wheel from which it falls on to vertical boards or plates and then
on to inclined plates fixed in an inclined position immediately over the ventilator
or fan so as to deflect from this latter the falling water which in its downward
passage is acted upon by the air from the ventilator. It runs from the inclined
plates into a channel round the ventilator finally falling in the cooled state to the
bottom of the casing to be again pumped out for use as before.
Dated this 12th day of March 1891.
CAPITAINE & VON HERTLING,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Water-cooling Apparatus.
I, EMIL CAPITAINE of Eilenburg in the County of Prussia, in the German
Empire, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
The apparatus of this invention consists of an outer casing in which the several
main organs or parts are located one above another.
C vertical shaft on which is
In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of the apparatus of
this invention and Fig. 2 a view of a portion of the same on an enlarged scale.
A is a cylindrical casing. Ba centrifugal pump.
fixed band pulley c and respectively at top and bottom of the same, ventilator
fan x and wing wheel of the centrifugal pump.
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Above the ventilator fan there
is an arrangement or appliance D for carrying off water. It consists of obliquely
located wing parts d with projecting angular edges o. The position of these fixed
wings is opposed to that of the fan wings so that air may pass unimpeded in the
direction of the arrows (Fig. 2) and distribute itself equably amongst boards or
plates E over which water Hows down and falls on to fixed wings d from which it
runs into channel K. S is a reaction wheel.
The working of the apparatus is as follows:-Upon vertical shaft C being set
in motion water collected at the bottom of the casing is driven through pipe r
to the place where it is to be used for cooling purposes.. It is returned in the
warm or heated state through pipe p into the casing falling into the spaces of
reaction wheel S, thence through orifices i on to boards E, over the surface
of wings d into channel K and through pipe 9 to the bottom of the casing, and
so on.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is ;-
The combination of the ventilating fan wheel and the wing wheel of a centri-
fugal pump both carried on the same shaft, with the oblique surfaces d,
surfaces E and reaction wheel S for the purpose specified substantially as described
and shewn.
Dated this 19th day of November 1901
CAPITAINE & VON HERTLING.
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.