Improvements in and connected with Disinfecting and Cleansing Apparatus.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 29th Apr., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Disinfecting and Cleansing
Apparatus.
1, CHARLES HERSCHER of the firm of Geneste, Herscher & Co. of 42 Rue du
Chemin Vert, Paris in the Republic of France, 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 :-
This invention has for its object a means of simultaneously cleansing and dis-
infecting, in a rapid, reliable and economical manner, walls which are contaminated
or soiled with viscous or adhesive deposits, such as are noticeable in cattle trucks,
stables, cow sheds, etcetera.
It consists in the simultaneous projection of a jet of boiling water under steam
pressure and of an antiseptic solution.
The simultaneous projection of these two agents is obtained by means of a special
projecting apparatus, the whole forming, with a steam boiler, a light and compact
apparatus capable of being rapidly set in action.
This apparatus is intended for simultaneously disinfecting and cleansing, and is
shown on the accompanying drawing.
Figure 1 is a side view of the apparatus.
Figure 2 is an end view of the same.
Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 are views of details hereinafter described.
The apparatus comprises a boiler fixed on a four wheeled carriage with suspension
springs which also support a water reservoir A and a vessel B containing an
antiseptic solution.
The water from the reservoir A is for feeding the boiler, which may be done
either by means of an injector J or by means of a little steam pump P.
The boiler and the reservoir A are so arranged that the boiler may be filled with
water before commencing to use it by filling the reservoir A with water.
The boiler is a rapidly heating one with a steam reservoir R, it is provided with
the accessory fittings, such as valves, manometers, water gauge glasses, gauge taps,
cleaning plugs, etcetera.
The chimney E is provided with a strong hinge a so that it can be lowered. A
blower allows of the draught being increased.
Inside the boiler, a curved tube is attached to the steam reservoir, and its lower
extremity terminates at some distance above the level of the upper tubes or of the
roof of the furnace. This tube is in connection with an external tap, from which
runs a tube C ending in a special injector D which draws the antiseptic liquid from
the vessel B by means of a pipe e. The tube is extended beyond the injector D
and terminates in a tap r. An india rubber or canvas hose pipe with a nozzle at
the end is fixed on this tap ". The injector D, employed, consists (as shown in
detail on a larger scale in Figure 3) of two or more conical divergent tubes having
each a narrower part, and which are fitted one in the other in such a way that one
of the widened ends of each tube coincides with the narrower part of the tube
enclosing it.
Figure 4 shows this injector D arranged in the length of the tube C and
connected with the tube e which has a regulating tap v. The boiling water under
pressure passes by the tube C into the suction device, thereby drawing or sucking
up the antiseptic liquid which rises through the tube e and mingles with the boiling
water to be projected simultaneously through the nozzle, the flexible tube of which
s fixed to the tap r.
Instead of an injector D being used for drawing up the antiseptic liquid by the
cence of the boiling wat
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page_text: this purpose, the tube C, instead of being provided with the injector D, is provided
with an injector D' (shown in detail on a larger scale in Figure 5) into which the
extremity of the tube e, which is provided with a regulating tap v, simply opens,
the opposite end of this tube dips into the vessel B, as shown in Figure 6. Further,
a tube y (see Figure 6 and also in dotted lines in Figure 1) places the vessel B and
the steam reservoir R in communication.
Under the action of the pressure which is then exerted in the vessel B, the
antiseptic liquid rises by the tube e and flows into the interior of the injector D¹,
where it mingles with the boiling water supplied by the tube C and is then projected
simultaneously therewith by the nozzle fixed to the tap r.
Whatever way may be made use of, the mixture of boiling water and antiseptic
liquid is none the less projected with force against the surfaces or articles which
are to be disinfected. The apparatus therefore acts simultaneously by its elevated
temperature and by its chemical action for disinfecting and cleaning in one
operation. The force of the jet at the extremity of the nozzle allows it to penetrate
into all the crevices.
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
1. For the simultaneous disinfection and cleansing of cattle trucks, stables, cow
sheds, etcetera, the combination of a water reservoir A, a vessel for antiseptic
solution B, a steam boiler R, an injector D or D', intended to mix, by suction or
pressure, the boiling water and the antiseptic solution, and a nozzle or flexible tube
attached to the tap r, substantially as hereinbefore described and shown.
2. For the simultaneous disinfecting and cleansing of cattle trucks, stables, cow
sheds, etcetera, the arrangement of an injector D, having divergent cones, on the
tube C running from the boiler, and its connection with the tube e immersed in the
reservoir B for antiseptic liquid, substantially as described and shown with reference
to Figures 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawing.
3. For the simultaneous disinfection and cleansing of cattle trucks, stables, cow
sheds, etcetera, a vessel B in which the antiseptic liquid is forced up by steam
pressure, in combination with a mixing injector D, and with a projecting nozzle,
substantially as described with reference to Figures 5 and 6 of the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 7th day of January 1893
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.