Improved Means for Humidifying Air in Textile Mills or Factories.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1897
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Loft 21st June 1808 Accented 23rd July, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Humidifying Air in Textile Mills or Factories.
I, THOMAS CHELL, of Ekatherinengof Manufactory, Volinkon, St. Petersburg,
in the Empire of Russia, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the humidification of air which is necessary for the
good working of cotton spinning machinery, and the invention consists mainly
in the combination with the windows of the factory or room or other similar
openings of external jets or sprays emitting water outside the room or building.
I prefer to use an air propeller (such as a Blackman ventilator for example)
in each room to expel the foul. air therefrom and to induce the entry of the
fresh moist air by the windows or similar inlets.
Inside humidifiers may be used in addition to the external jets or sprays..
The use of my improvements allow of the opening of windows in hot dry
weather without thereby interfering with the moisture of the atmosphere in
the room.
The form of the jets or spraying devices may vary and each or a series of them
may be provided with a filter for purifying the water.
One, horizontal set of jets at the top of the building below the level of the
eaves may suffice for all the floors or stories of a mill or factory.
The jets are preferably made to cause fine sprays forming
a continuous band
of moisture or fine rain all across the openings or windows of the room or rooms.
Dated the 20th day of September 1897.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,..
Agents for the Applicant, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.
Improved Means for Humidifying Air in Textile Mills or Factories.
I, THOMAS CHELL, of Ekatherinengof Manufactory, Volinkon, St. Petersburg,
in the Empire of Russia, Engineer, 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:-
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This invention relates to the humidification of air which is necessary for the
good working of cotton spinning machinery, and the invention consists mainly
in the combination with the windows of the factory or room or other similar
openings of external jets or sprays emitting water outside the room or building.
I prefer to use an air propeller (such as a Blackman ventilator for example)

page_text: in each room to expel the foul air therefrom and to induce the entry of the
fresh moist air by the windows or similar inlets.
Inside humidifiers may be used in addition to the external jets or sprays.
The use of my improvements allow of the opening of windows in hot dry
weather without thereby interfering with the moisture of the atmosphere in
the room.
.
The form of the jets or spraying devices may vary and each or a series of them
may be provided with a filter for purifying the water.
One horizontal set of jets at the top of the building below the level of the
eaves may suffice for all the floors or stories of a mill or factory.
The jets are preferably made to cause fine sprays forming a continuous band
of moisture or fine rain all across the openings or windows of the room or rooms.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood I have annexed hereto
a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof.
Fig. 1 is a section through part of a building with my moistener applied
thereto.
Fig. 1 shews a plan of the spray and Figs. 2, 2 and 3 shew (enlarged) forms
of nozzle which I prefer to employ.
The building is shewn having several stories a, a¹, a², a³, with windows at
6 61, 62, 63, outside the uppermost is the nozzle or jet c. d, d¹, d, d³, are venti-
lators or air propellers drawing the spent air from the rooms a a¹, a², a³
respectively.
The nozzle c is preferably so formed as to throw a wide semi-circular spray
from the holes c¹ see Fig. 2, or the slit c* see Fig. 2ª, and also a spray from the
hole or holes c² as seen also at Fig. 1.
A filter may be applied to the supply pipe 3 of each nozzle c say at 4 (Fig. 1).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
The combination with one or more than one window or opening in a room
or building of a nozzle or nozzles or jets causing a fine spray of water to fall
outside the said window or opening to moisten the air entering the room or
building through such windows or opening either with or without an air pro-
peller or propellers in the room or building, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 20th day of June 1898
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.