MENTS IN APPLYING HEAT FOR GENERATING STEAM FOR MOTIVE POWER, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, AND IN GENERATING HEAT, AND IN HEATING AND EVAPORATING FLUIDS
Year: 1850

page_text: ACHIDALD
TURNER, of Leicester, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventh day of De-
cember, One thousand eight hundred and fifty, in the fourteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Archibald Turner, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, Her especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Archibald Turner, my
exors, adñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Archibald Turner
my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVE
MENTS IN APPLYING HEAT FOR GENERATING STEAM FOR MOTIVE POWER, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES, AND IN GENERATING HEAT, AND IN HEATING AND EVAPORATING
FLUIDS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said
Archibald Turner, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an

page_text: instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large.
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Archibald Turner, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner of performing the same, are fully described-and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists of combining the heating of retorts for distilling coal
or matter for making gas with steam and other boilers for generating steam
and heating and evaporating fluids, for obtaining motive power, and other
purposes, in such manner that the heat of a furnace or furnaces having heated
a retort or retorts arranged, surrounded, or partly surrounded by a steam or
other boiler, the otherwise waste heat of such furnace or furnaces will heat
such boiler. The arrangement of retorts and boilers which I prefer, is to have
two gas retorts, one above the other, heated by a single furnace below the
retorts, being set in brickwork, as is well understood, and the boiler is formed
of the waggon-shape above, but so as to have the sides descend on either side
of the brickwork used for setting the retorts and constructing the furnace and
flues. By this arrangement the heat of the furnace will first heat the retorts,
and any heat which may pass away from the retorts will act on the under side
of the boiler, and the direction of the heat so passing away and acting on the
boiler may be controlled by flues formed in the brickwork, or the whole heat
may pass directly from the flues of the retorts into a chamber under the boiler,
and thence away to the chimney. But other arrangements may be resorted to,
and the boiler may be made completely to surround the furnace and the retort
or retorts; this arrangement is most suitable when using a single retort, in
which case the boiler may be cylindrical, having a cylindrical or oval formed
flue through it, of such size as to receive the setting of a retort and furnace
within it, there being openings at the upper part of the brickwork for the passage
of the heat, after heating the retort, into the upper part of the flue. Or other
changes may be made in the construction of the boiler; and consequently of the
arrangement of the stack of brickwork in which a retort or retorts are built.
I have found that when the retorts are not required to generate gas that it is
better to leave in the coke of the last charge, which, by comparatively a small
quantity of fuel supplied to the furnace, will keep up the necessary beat to the
.boiler.