IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF AIR-PROPELLING OR EXHAUSTING APPARATUS FOR VENTILATING AND LIKE PURPOSES ON BOARD STEAM VESSELS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Wye Williams, of Liverpool, in the County
Palatine of Lancaster, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE APPLICATION OF AIR-PROPELLING OR EXHAUSTING APPARATUS FOR
VENTILATING AND LIKE PURPOSES ON BOARD STEAM VESSELS."
Sealed the 26th September 1856, and dated the 29th March 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Wye Williams at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th March 1856.
I, CHARLES WYE WILLIAMS, of Liverpool, in the County Palatine of
Lancaster, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF AIR-PROPELLING OR EXHAUSTING
APPARATUS FOR VENTILATING AND LIKE PURPOSES ON BOARD STEAM VESSELS, to
be as follows:-
My said improvements refer to employing the rotatory fans or or other
description of blowing or exhausting apparatus, worked by a small independent
engine, or by being connected with the marine engine, for the purpose of
obtaining an improved draught of air by these mechanical applications.
By means of pipes circulating through different parts of vessels, and con-
nected with the air main, I propose to ventilate the cabins, hold, and other places
by the exhaustion or compression of the air, providing such suitable outlets or
inlets, perforations, or valves as may be required.

page_text: I also employ like arrangements to exhaust the products of combustion
from the furnaces by the funnels of marine boilers, and thereby promote the
combustion; or I sometimes cause the air to be blown into the engine and
stoke room, by which means the furnaces will be better supplied with air, and
the room ventilated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Wye Williams in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 29th September 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
WYE WILLIAMS, of Liverpool, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles Wye Williams, Her special licence that I, the said. Charles Wye
Williams, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as. I, the
said Charles Wye Williams, 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 IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF AIR-PROPELLING OR EXHAUSTING APPARATUS FOR
VENTILATING AND LIKE PURPOSES ON BOARD STEAM VESSELS, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I; the said Charles Wye Williams, my executor's or
administrators; 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 manner the same was to be performed; and cause
the safe 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 Wye Williams, 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:-
My said improvements refer to employing the ordinary rotatory fans, ör
other description of blowing or exhausting apparatus, worked by a small

page_text: independent engine, or by being connected with the marine engine, for the
purpose of obtaining an improved draught of air by these mechanical appli-
cations; and for the better understanding of my said Invention I will now
proceed to describe the details thereof.
I propose to ventilate the cabins, hold, and other places by the exhaustion or
propulsion of air in pipes or other air passages circulating through different
parts of vessels, providing such suitable outlets or inlets, perforations, valves,
or similar contrivances as may be required. I also employ like mechanical
arrangements to exhaust the products of combustion from the engine boiler
furnaces by the funnels, and thereby promote the combustion of the fuel; or I
sometimes cause the air, to be forced into the engine and stoke rooms, by which
means the furnaces will be better supplied with air. It is obvious that the
same fan or air-pump while exhausting one set of air pipes or passages may at
the same time be propelling air in another set of like pipes or passages, when
so desired.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the means
adapted for carrying the same into practical operation, I desire it to be under-
stood that as my said improvements are capable of considerable modification, I
do not, therefore, limit myself to any peculiar class of blowing or exhausting
apparatus, or to the materials, dimensions, or situation thereof, so long as the
principle of my said improvements is inaintained; and I do declare that what
I claim as my Invention is, namely, the application of air-exhausting or pro-
pelling apparatus worked by steam power, for ventilating the holds of steam
vessels, and increasing the draught of their furnaces, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Wye Williams, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of September, in the year of
our Lord 1856
CHARLES WYE WILLIAMS. (L.S.)