APPARATUS FOR UTILISING THE WASTE HEAT IN THE FLUES OF STEAM AND OTHER ENGINES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Senior, of Deadwaters, near Huddersfield, in
the County of York, for the Invention of "APPARATUS FOR UTILISING THE
WASTE HEAT IN THE FLUES OF STEAM AND OTHER ENGINES."
Sealed the 4th December 1860, and dated the 5th June 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Senior at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th
June 1860.
I, CHARLES SENIOR, of Deadwaters, near Huddersfield, in the County of York,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "APPARATUS FOR
UTILISING THE WASTE HEAT IN THE FLUES OF STEAM AND OTHER ENGINES," to be
as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to gather or collect the waste heat from
the flues of steam engines or other flues, and apply it to heating, drying
or other purpose where heat is required, and is effected in the following
manner
I propose employing a brick or plate of iron either of which is to be per-
forated with a number of small holes into which are to be placed tubes.
One such brick or plate is to be inserted in each side wall of the flue, after
leaving the boiler, and before entering the chimney. A number of pipes or
tubes are also placed across the flue at right angles, which catch the heat
or caloric produced by the action of the draught from the fire; a plate of iron
with a rim on the outer edge is bolted to the perforated brick or plate
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page_text: leaving a cavity between the two through which the waste heat is drawn from
a large pipe placed in a corresponding hole formed in the last-mentioned plate,
and through which atmospheric air may be propelled or drawn by a blast, fan,
or other convenient means; the hot air is then conveyed through pipes to
the place where and for the purpose for which such heat is required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Charles Senior in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th December 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
SENIOR, of Deadwaters, near Huddersfield, in the County of York, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles Senior, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Senior, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Senior,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "APPARATUS FOR UTILISING
THE WASTE HEAT IN THE FLUES OF STEAM AND OTHER ENGINES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Charles Senior, my executors or administra-
tors, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manuer the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Senior, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
Tire object of this Invention is to gather or collect the waste heat from the
flues of steam engines or other flues, and apply it to heating, drying, or other
purposes where heat is required.

page_text: Fig. 1 exhibits a side elevation of my apparatus for gathering or collecting
the waste heat in the flues of steam and other engines, and Fig. 2, top plan view
of same, shewing also a method by which I clean the exterior of the pipes or
tubes in the said apparatus; similar letters of reference denote corresponding
parts where such appear or can be seen at each of the figures respectively.
a, a, are a number of cast or wrought iron pipes or tubes standing vertically
or laid horizontally in the flue of a steam boiler, being placed between the.
boiler and the chimney, each end of such pipes or tubes a, a, being inserted
in an iron plate or fire brick made for the purpose, and which either stand
or lay in a diagonal or other suitable position, (as shewn at Fig 2,) and
between said pipes or tubes the smoke or flame of the fire passes; b, b, are
bolts with nuts attached to each end thereof, these bolts passing through
the plates or bricks as shewn, and with which the whole apparatusis fastened
and secured together; C, C, are openings in the plate or brick at the bottom,
if the apparatus stands vertically, or at the end, if horizontally, into which
the cold air is driven or drawn by a blast fan or other means and is warmed
in its passage through the pipes or tubes a, a, until it enters the box or
chamber d, from whence it is drawn by a blast fan through the tube or
pipe e, (in the direction of the arrow's flight) to the place in which it is
required to be used either for drying or heating purposes. Fig. 2 represents
a top plan view of the same apparatus with the addition of a contrivance or
method by which said pipes or tubes a, a,may be cleansed from the soot which
accumulates,and would thus prevent the caloricor heat necessary being caught
by the pipes in its passage between them; ff, are a series of flat iron bars
placed diagonally across each other, between which are placed a number of
washers g, g, one of which is placed upon each pipe as seen at Fig. 2, the
diagonal bars being held a sufficient distance apart by small washers, through
which and the bars pass rivets as represented at the corners of the diamonds
formed by the diagonal barsand which rivets fasten the diagonal bars together,
leaving a small space in which each washer 'y,g, is allowed to move, so that if
the pipes are not exactly true one with another, or if a pipe should be crooked,
the washer upon such pipe may move sideways with the pipe without pre-

page_text: venting the movement of the soot cleansing apparatus from being drawn up
and down the pipes in the iron plate; i is an iron rod, which passes through on
the top of the apparatus and through the box or chamber down to the soot
cleansing apparatus, and is fastened to it by a screw and nuts on each side of
the diagonal bars, and to which rod a chain may be fastened, and to the other
end of said chain a weight which being placed over a pulley may be moved by
hand or other convenient power.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, for "Apparatus
for Utilising the Waste Heat in the Flues of Steam and other Engines,"
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I would remark in
conclusion,that I do not confine or restrict myself to the precise details herein
described and shewn in the accompanying Drawings, as the apparatus may be
placed in any position according to the description of the furnace in which it is to
be used, neither do I confine myself to the precise details of the soot cleansing
apparatus, as that may be so arranged, modified, or altered, to answer the same
purpose without in any way departing from the principle of my Invention;
but what I claim,as my Invention intended to be secured to me by the herein
in part recited Letters Patent is, the utilising of the waste heat of steam and
other engines, and the cleansing of the same from accumulated soot in the
manner shewn by the accompanying Drawings, and herein described for the
purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Senior, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
WILLIAM SENIOR,
East Parade,
Huddersfield.
CHARLES SENIOR. (L.s.)