CONSUMING AND DESTROYING SMOKE AS EMITTED FROM ENGINE OR OTHER CHINNIES, AND FROM PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert King, of Granville Street, Sheffield, in the
County of York, Printer, and Kenneth Robson, of Granville Street,
Sheffield, aforesaid, Printer, for the Invention of "CONSUMING AND
DESTROYING SMOKE AS EMITTED FROM ENGINE OR OTHER CHINNIES, AND FROM
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert King and Kenneth
Robson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,.
on the 18th May 1861.
We, ROBERT KING, of Granville Street, Sheffield, in the County of York,
Printer, and KENNETH ROBSON, of Granville Street, Sheffield, aforesaid,.
Printer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CONSUMING:
AND DESTROYING SMOKE AS EMITTED PROM ENGINE OR OTHER CHIMNIES, AND PROM
ALL OTHER FLUES PROM WHICH SMOKE IS EMITTED," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in consuming or condensing the smoke from furnace
or other flues in such a manner that when emitted from the shaft or chimney
it shall be comparatively colorless. We propose drawing the smoke as.
emitted from the furnace, by means of a fan, pump, or propeller worked.by.
any suitable power, through a downcast pipe or tube into a vessel of water:
at the lower part of the chimney or shaft, so that the smoke, however dense;
shall pass into or through the water, thus depositing the narcotic properties.

page_text: of the smoke at the bottom of the water, leaving the rarefied portion to pass
upwards into the chimney, or shaft perfectly free from soot or other impurity;
by which means, when such smoke is emitted into the atmosphere, it assumies
more the appearance of steam, or almost a colorless vapour. The same means
also be adopted for carrying off the unpleasant smells arising from soap-
boiling, chemical, or other works. When applied to locomotives it will be
found that the velocity with which they travel will be sufficient to drive the
smoke by means of an inverted funnel or other suitable contrivance through
a pipe into a suitable water vessel without the necessity of a fan, pump, or other
appliance.
may
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions-of the-Letters-Patent,
and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Robert King and
Kenneth Robson in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the 18th December
1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
KING, of Granville Street, Sheffield, in the County of York, Printer, and
KENNETH ROBSON, of Granville Street, Sheffield, aforesaid, Printer, send.
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Robert King and Kenneth Robson, Her special licence that we,
the said Robert King and Kenneth Robson, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Robert King and Kenneth Robson,
our 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 "CONSUMING AND DESTROYING SMOKE
AS EMITTED FROM ENGINE AND OTHER CHIMNIES, AND FROM ALL OTHER FLUES FROM
WHICH SMOKE IS EMITTED," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Robert King and Kenneth Robson, our executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under our, 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 same to

page_text: be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after tho date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Robert King and Kenneth Robson,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the.
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
Our Invention consists in consuming or condensing the smoke from furnace
or other flues in such a manner that when emitted from the shaft or chimney
it shall be comparatively colorless.. We draw the smoke as emitted from the:
furnace, by means of a fan, pump, or propeller worked by any suitable power,
through a down-cast pipe or tube into a vessel of water at the lower part of
the chimney or shaft, so that the smoke, however, dense, shall pass into or
through the water, thus depositing the narcotic properties of the smoke at the
bottom and top of tho water, leaving the rarefied portion to pass upwards into
the chimney or shaft perfectly free from soot or other impurity; by which
means, when such smoke is emitted into the atmosphere, it assumes more the
appearance of steam or almost a colorless vapour. The same means may also
be adopted for carrying off the unpleasant smells arising from soap-boiling,
chemical, or other works. When applied to locomotives it will be found that
the velocity with which they travel will be sufficient to drive the smoke by
means of an inverted funnel or other suitable contrivance through a pipe
into a suitable water vessel without the necessity of a fan, pump, or other
appliance.
In order to explain our said Invention as completely as possible, we now
proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, as follows:-
The smoke arising from the combustion of fuel in a steam boiler or other
furnace passes into the flue in the ordinary course, whence it is drawn by
a rotary fan or blower, or by any of the well-known mechanical contrivances
for effecting such a purpose (worked by any suitable gearing, such as a driving
wheel, band, and pulley), and forced downwards through a pipe or con-
tinuation of the flue into a reservoir of water (into which the pipe descends)
situated at the lowest part of the chimney or shaft, by which means the soot
and other impurities of the smoke are retained by the water, and the colorless
vapour alone allowed to be carried up the shaft by the action of the draft;
the result is not only that the emission of black vapour or smoke is entirely
obviated, but that the products of the combustion of coal or other fuel in
the furnace are collected and preserved, and may be made available for many
valuable and useful commercial purposes.

page_text: Having now described the nature of our said Invention of "Consuming
and Destroying Smoke as emitted from Engine and other Chimneys, and from
all other Flues from which Smoke is emitted," and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, we would remark, in conclusion, that we do not
confine ourselves to the precise details herein described, as other means may
be adopted, substantially the same, for effecting similar purposes without in any
way departing from the principle of our Invention; but what we claim as our
Invention, and therefore desire to be secured to us by the herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent, is, the method of consuming or condensing and
purifying the smoke or vapour as emitted from engine or other shafts or
chimnics in the manner herein described and set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Robert King and Kenneth Robson,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fourteenth day of
November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one.
Witness,
THO. RAYNER, Sol.,
Sheffield.
ROBERT KING.
(L.S.)
KENNETH ROBSON. (L.S.)