IMPRAREMENTO PAR TOP PORVENTION OR INCRUSTATION IN
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Boulton Jones, of Nelson Terrace, City
Road, Middlesex, Telegraphic Engineer, and William Powell, of Circus
Place, Finsbury, Middlesex, Telegraph Engineer and Contractor, for the
Invention of "IMPRAREMENTO
PAR TOP PORVENTION OR INCRUSTATION
IN
Sealed the 5th June 1868, and dated, the 7th December 1867..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Boulton Jones
and William Powell at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 7th December 1867.
We, RICHARD BOULTON JONES, of Nelson Terrace, City Road, Middlesex,
Telegraphic Engineer, and WILLIAM POWELL, of Circus Place, Finsbury,
Middlesex, Telegraph Engineer and Contractor, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE PREVENTION OF
INCRUSTATION IN STEAM BOILERS," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to prevent incrustation in steam boilers
resulting from the deposit or crystallization of saline, earthy, or mineral

page_text: substances or impurities contained in water, and is effected by attracting or
collecting the electricity generated in the interior of steam boilers and con-
ducting it to the shells thereof. For this purpose an electrical generator is
placed in the interior of the boiler and above the water line and as nearly as
conveniently may be to the steam pipe. This generator consists of a plate
of copper or other suitable metal of requisite thickness with portions taken
away so as to form several divisions or spaces in the metal, but leaving a
continuous flange or edge, into which and within the divisions or spaces are
fixed any suitable number of conductors radiating towards the centre. The
conductors may be either straight or curved and may be pointed with
platina; parts of the flange or edge are to be elongated beyond the
outer side, upon or in connection with which a band of platina is to be
fixed so
as to leave an opening or space between the elongated parts
and the flange or edge and the platina band. The plate is to be continued
or united at any convenient part by a metal arın or rod with a ring or
hollow in its end to admit of an insulated bolt for fixing the apparatus
to the boiler. The insulation of the bolt may be obtained by a ring or
covering of ebonite or other suitable non-conductor of electricity. A screw
is placed in the end of the arm or rod to receive two bolts or binding nuts,
between which one of the ends of the conducting wire or wires is applied,
the other end or ends of the wire or wires being brought into contact or
connection with the shell of the boiler by a holt or bolts or other appliances.
The insulated bolt may be screwed or otherwise fastened to the boiler by any
suitable means. The steam in its way to the steam pipe will pass through
the divisions or spaces in the metal plate and between the conductors placed
avithin such divisions, and in doing so the electricity contained in the steam
will be collected thereby, and the metal plate became charged with electricity;
the platina band will increase the intensity of the electricity. The generator
becomes an electrical battery, and by connecting it and the boiler by the wire
or wires before mentioned during the generation of steam the boiler will
receive a succession of electrical shocks, and incrustation in the boiler will be
thereby prevented, or where it has taken place will be removed.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Boulton Jones and William Powell in. the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 6th June 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, RICHARD
BOULTON JONES, of Nelson Terrace, City Road, Middlesex, Telegraphio
Engineer, and WILLIAM POWELL, of Circus Place, Finsbury,. Telegraphic
Engineer and Contractor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters.
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Richard Boulton Jones and William Powell, Her special licence,
that we, the said Richard Boulton Jones and William Powell, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Richard Boulton.
Jones and William Powell, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS FOR THE PREVENTION OF INCRUSTATION IN STEAM. BOILERS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Richard Boulton Jones and
William Powell, 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 be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and inmediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Richard Boulton Jones and William
Powell, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertainedt
in and by the following statement:-
The object of this Invention is to prevent incrustation in steam boilers
resulting from the deposit or crystallization of saline, earthy, or mineral
substances or impurities contained in the water or liquid used in such boilers,
which we purpose to effect by attracting or collecting the electricity generated
in the interior of such boilers and conducting it to their shells. To this end
we provide the boiler with a generator, which generator consists of a compound
metallic plate of requisite thickness, but having divisions or spaces provided

page_text: in the metal, leaving however a continuous flange or edge into which and
within the divisions or spaces any suitable number of conductors are fixed so
as to proceed towards the centre or central portion of the generator. The
conductors may be either straight or curved and may be pointed with platina,
gold, or other incorrodable metal. Parts of the flange or edge are to be
elongated beyond the outer side, upon or in connection with which a band or
wire of platina is to be fixed so as to leave an opening or space between the
elongated parts and the flange or edging and the platina band. The plate
is to be continued or united at any convenient part by a metal arm or rod
with a ring or hollow in its end for the admission of an insulated bolt for
fixing the apparatus to the boiler. The insulation of the bolt may be obtained
by a ring or covering of ebonite or other suitable non-conductor of electricity.
A screw is placed in the end of the arm or rod to receive two binding nuts,
between which one of the rods of the conducting wire or wires is applied, the
other end or ends of the wire or wires being brought into contact with the
shell of the boiler by a bolt or bolts or other appliances. The insulated bolt
may be screwed or otherwise fastened to the boiler by any suitable means.
The steam in its way to the steam pipe will pass through the divisions or
spaces in the metal plate, and between the conductors placed within such
divisions, and in doing so the electricity contained in the steam will be
collected thereby and the metal plate become charged with electricity and the
platina band will increase the intensity of the electricity. The result of the e
arrangements duly used is that the generator becomes an electrical battery.
and by connecting it and the boiler by the wire or wires, before mentioned,
during the generation of steam, the boiler will receive a succession of
electrical shocks, and incrustation in the boiler will be thereby prevented, or
where it has taken place will be removed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figs. 1 and 2 respectively front elevation and side elevation of a generator
constructed according to my Invention; Fig. 3, bolt screwed into boiler and
supplied with nut to secure wire by pinching it against collar; the same
letters of reference are used for corresponding parts in the various Figures.
a, a, compound metallic plate; b, b, conductors tipped with incorrodable
metal; c, c, platina wire or band; d, d, metal arm or rod; e, e, ring; f, f
insulated bolt; 9, 9, insulator; h, h, screw with binding nuts i, i; k, k,
conducting wire.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention we bereby declare that we claim the generator for the prevention

page_text: of incrustation of steam boilers having conductor points proceeding from its
circumference towards the centre and platina wire or band at its periphery.
In witness whereof, we, the said Richard Boulton Jones and William
Powell, have bereunto set our hands and seals, this Sixth day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
I. D. JONES.
(L.B.)
Wч. POWELL. (L.S.)
Witness,
ALEX. P. WRIGHT,
Sec to the
Inventor's Patent Right Association, Limited,