Year: 1885

page_text: I, WILLIAM WALTER BARTON, of Molineux Cottage, Waterloo Road North,
Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford, Contractor to the Sanitary Department
of the Wolverhampton Corporation, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:—
Washing and brewing boilers as ordinarily employed, and frequently also
cooking boilers, are open topped, and consequently the steam arising therefrom
fills the interior of the rooms in which they are seated and escapes also into any
rooms opening therefrom, thus creating considerable inconvenience, especially in
the case of washing or cooking boilers employed in wash-houses or kitchens having
direct communication with the interiors of dwelling houses; and even when a
wooden lid is employed, and is sometimes the case with washing and cooking
boilers, the steam nevertheless escapes and produces the inconvenience above
referred to.
Now, the object of this invention is to ensure that the steam from the boiler
shall be carried away into the outside atmosphere, preferably through the chimney
connected with the boiler furnace.
According to this invention, a raised cover, preferably of sheet metal, is fitted on
the top of the boiler, and the steam is carried away from the top of the cover,
either into the chimney connected with the boiler furnace, or into the atmosphere,
through a pipe, preferably of sheet metal. The cover is fitted with a door, which
may be opened or closed at will to supply or withdraw clothes or other articles or
materials to or from the boiler.
According to a convenient application of this invention the cover is formed as a
vertical cylinder for a sufficient height to arrange a sliding door in the side thereof.
The bottom edge of this cylinder is formed to enter for a short distance inside the
top of the boiler, and a flange is formed around the cylinder near the lower edge
thereof by means of which the cylinder rests upon the boiler. The top of this
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page_text: cylinder is formed as a cone, and its apex made to terminate in a short length of
pipe. The vertical arm of an elbow pipe or bend is fitted around the short length
of pipe so as to be capable of being turned thereon, in order that the horizontal
arm of the elbow or bend may point in any desired direction. A length or lengths
of pipe is or are formed to slide within the horizontal arm, so as to be capable of
telescoping therein. When the cover is fitted on to a boiler, the pipe leading from
the top thereof may be readily pointed in the direction of the chimney to which
it is to be connected, and the telescope arrangement described enables the
horizontal part of the pipe to be readily connected with such chimney.
Dated this twenty-ninth day of October 1885.

page_text: WILLIAM WALTER BARTON of Molineux Cottage, Waterloo Road North, Wolver-
hampton in the County of Stafford Contractor to the Sanitary Department of
the Wolverhampton Corporation, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENTS RELATING TO WASHING, BREWING & COOKING BOILERS, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
According to a convenient application of this invention the cover is formed as a
vertical cylinder marked C in the accompanying drawing for a sufficient height to
arrange a sliding door marked D in the side thereof. The bottom edge of this
cylinder marked E is formed to enter for a short distance inside the top of the
boiler and a flange is formed around the cylinder near the lower edge thereof by
means of which the cylinder rests upon the boiler. The top of this cylinder C is
formed as a cone and its apex made to terminate in a short length of pipe P. The
vertical arm of an elbow pipe or bend B is fitted around the short length of pipe
so as to be capable of being turned thereon in order that the horizontal arm of the
elbow or bend may point in any direction. The steam or vapour generated in the
boiler may be condensed by applying a worm to the end of the horizontal pipe
marked B immersed in a vessel of water and the liquefied contents collected if
required from the projecting end of the worm.
My claim is to utilise the pipe marked B for conveying away the steam or
vapour generated in the boiler into the boiler chimney or elsewhere, or to liquefy
it in the way above described.