An Improved Portable Household-refuse Cremator.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Nov., 1890-Accepted. 27th Dec. 1890
Date of Application, 15th Nov., 1890-Accepted. 27th Dec. 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Household-refuse Cremator.
I FRANCES LOUISA FAULKNER of 19 Queensbury Place South Kensington in
the County of Middlesex, Spinster, 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 relates to an improved construction of 'small removable or portable
household refuse cremators or destructors applicable to the kitchen ranges commonly
in use.
The object of my invention is to provide a simple durable and cheap apparatus
for destroying refuse when required in an hygienic, inoffensive, and efficient
manner.
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I will now fully describe my invention in reference to the accompanying drawings
in which Fig. 1 is a vertical section, and Fig. 2 a plan with cover removed.
I provide an outer casing a which may be cylindrical as illustrated, or coned towards
its base which is partly closed by a plate a' having a central aperture furnished
with a collar or neck C of a diameter and depth adapted to fit freely into the fire-
hole of any required kitchener. The aperture 6 may be provided or not as required
with a grid or grate. The casing a is or may be advantageously provided with a
handle for lifting it about, and has a well fitting lid or cover a² which also has a
handle. Within the casing a I fit the refuse receiver d which is open at its base or
partly closed and having an aperture e, and it is perforated with holes in its walls
arranged in any manner; it may be of a conical form as illustrated or a concentric
cylinder or of other suitable shape, but so that a space s intervenes between its walls
and base and the outer casing a.
The receiver may be supported in the casing by a rim about its top as illustrated,
or it may have feet d supported by the base plate a' or in an equivalent manner.
This receiver may be plain as shown, or it may have a cross tube or tubes such
as are shown dotted communicating with space s and perforated or not as will be
readily understood.
In some cases I may fit a bent pipe from the aperture e of the receiver communi-
cating with space s as shown for example dotted in Fig. 1 and it may be perforated
or not as desired. The object of these tubes is to serve as auxiliary heating surfaces.
Such cremators may be made of any convenient size to be portable and hold the
refuse of one or more days. They are made of copper or other suitable material
and all joints are lap-welded or otherwise adapted to resist the action of heat. The
refuse is to be filled into the receiver which is then closed by lid a³, the neck a³ is
then fitted into the fire-hole in the kitchener.
The heat and flames quickly carbonize the refuse and vapours (thereby destroying
germs and organic life) and the products of carbonization and combustion rapidly
educe the charge of refuse to ash and all are drawn by the usual draught through
he perforations down the space s as shown by the arrows, and through the furnace
whereby they are consumed and pass innocuously to the chimney or flue.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
ion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
laim is :-
A portable household refuse cremator constructed substantially as hereinabove
et forth, wherein a perforated refuse receiver (with or without auxiliary heating
urfaces) is enclosed in a casing hoving

page_text: space intervening between the two, all arranged and operated as described and
illustrated.
Dated this 15th day of November 1890.
J. C. CHAPMAN, Fel. Inst. P.A.,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.