Improvements in or connected with the Disposal of Distillery Effluents.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 20th July, 1899 -Accepted, 16th Sept., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with the Disposal of Distillery
Effluents.
We, JOHN HAMILTON FULLARTON, D.Sc., of 10, Octavia Cottage, Greenock, in
the County of Renfrew, and DAVID BRUCE CUMMING, of 16, Brunswick Street,
Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Consulting Engineer, do hereby declaro
the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention has reference to the disposal of distilling effluents which it is
desirous to destroy or get rid of, such as the washing of tanks or vessels, spent-
lees, and the like; and it has mainly for its object to effect its disposal in a simple
and inexpensive manner.
According to this invention, the object or end referred to is accomplished by
atomizing or reducing the liquids to the form of a fine spray, and employing the
waste gases passing from the still flues, or other heating apparatus, as a means
of carrying the atomized liquid or spray up the chimney or smoke stack, and
thence away into the atmosphere, high above the earth. The spray would be
preferably introduced into the still or other flues, or base of the smoke stack.
As an instance, the liquids may be drawn from a tank in which they have been
collected, and are passed through an atomiser or nozzle spraying device, or one or
more of them, and forced into the still flues, or base of the smoke stack, and are,
by the heat of these gases, evaporated; and in the form of vapour they are carried
by and pass up the smoke space with the hot gases; and thus the liquid is dis-
charged in a vapourous form, together with the gases from the chimney, and so
disposed of.
Improvements in or connected with the Disposal of Distillery
Effluents.
We, JOHN HAMILTON FULLARTON, D.Sc., of 10, Octavia Cottage, Greenock, in
the County of Renfrew, and DAVID BRUCE CUMMING, of 16, Brunswick Street,
Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Consulting 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:-
This invention has reference to the disposal of distillery effluents which it is

page_text: desirous to destroy or get rid of, such as the washings of tanks or vessels, spent-
lees and the like; and it has mainly for its object to effect its disposal in a simple
and inexpensive manner.
The invention will be described with the assistance of the accompanying draw-
ing, which is a plan illustrating it.
In this drawing a represents the lower portion of a chimney stalk carrying
away the waste gases from the furnaces of apparatus used in a distillery. Some of
the flues are shown and marked b, while c is the main waste gas flue conveying
the combined products of combustion or waste gases from the flues 6 to the stalk a.
d is the spraying nozzle or atomizer in the base of the stalk a; the liquid to be
disposed of being conveyed to it by the pipe d, through the flue c, it being forced
through this pipe and the nozzle, by the pumpe and pipes n, having been first
passed through a filter f. By this method of manipulating and treating the
effluent, the heat of the waste gases from the flues f effects its disposal, by forcing
it into and through the still flues, and the base of the smoke stack, and through
the spraying nozzle or atomizer therein; and the liquid being thereby converted
into vapour and intermixed and combined with the gases, it is carried and passed
up the smoke stack with these hot gases, and discharged in vapourised form,
together with the gases, and so disposed of.
On the left hand side of the drawing no stalk is shewn, but it is to be under-
stood that the flue c, would be connected with a funnel, similarily as on the right
hand side.
2, represent pressure gauges on the pipes ; and represents a pipe connected
with, through which the blow-down from the boilers is passed into the system.
With regard to the pipe d', its use affords a very simple mode of applying the
heat of the gases in the flues to the refuse or effluent, but any suitable form of
heat interchanger may be employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
Effecting the disposal of distillery effluents or liquid refuse by the heat of the
waste gases in the flues or bottom of the smoke stack of a distillery, and by dis-
charging it in a sprayed or atomized state into it; whereby the heat of such waste
gases vapourises the liquid, and in the form of vapour it becomes intermixed with
and carried away by the same; substantially as set forth.
Datod this 10th low of T1.. 1000
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
Applicant's Patent Agents, 15, Water Street, Liverpool.