AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF APPARATUS FOR EXTINGUishing Fire ON BOARD SHIP, AND PREVENTING EXPLOSIONS OF GASES IN CARGOES AND D PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lieutenant Colonel The Honorable William Edward
Fitzmaurice, of Rinskaheen Lodge, in the County of Tipperary, Ireland, at
present residing at 48, Rue de la Fourche, Brussels, Belgium, for an Invention
of " AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF APPARATUS FOR EXTINGUishing Fire
ON BOARD SHIP, AND PREVENTING EXPLOSIONS OF GASES IN CARGOES AND
D
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Fitzmaurice
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th November 1881.
Lieutenant Colonel The Honorable WILLIAM EDWARD FITZMAURICE, of Rins-
kaheen Lodge, in the County of Tipperary, Ireland, at present residing at
48, Rue de la Fourche, Brussels, Belgium, "AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF
APPARATUS FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRE ON BOARD SHIP, AND PREVENTING
EXPLOSIONS OF GASES IN CARGOES AND BUNKERS."
The extinction of fire in ships or buildings by exhausting the air by means of air
pumps from the holds, bunkers, compartments, or chambers of any kind, and when
further necessary by filling the vacuum thus created with steam, and by means of
the air pumps to ascertain the presence of gas in any holds, bunkers, or compart-
inents, or other stores, and to expel the gas therefrom by the said air pumps to
prevent fire or explosion of gas.
To carry out this Invention (the holds, bunkers, compartments, or other stores
being kept as air tight as possible), it is intended to insert one or more tubes or
pipes of a convenient length and size through the hatches, bunkers, or compart-
ments, &c., with a screw on the joint and a cock at the outside of each tube or pipe
on the part outside the hatch, bunker, or compartment, &c.
In the event of fire it is intended to carry a hose or pipe from all or any of the
outside joints of the hatch, bunker, or compartment, &c., to one or more hand or
steam worked air pumps, and to exhaust the air from the holds, compartments, &c.,
or cargoes of ships to the degree required. When this is effected it is intended to
attach a hose or pipe to the cock on the outside of the tube or pipe that is inserted
into the hatch, compartment, &c., and carry it thence to the boiler and there
connect it and turn on the steain, cutting off the connection with the air pumps,
and complete the extinction of the fire if not already extinguished by the
exhaustion of the air.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and of an
Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said William Edward Fitzmaurice
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th May 1882.
Lieutenant Colonel The Honorable WILLIAM EDWARD FITZMAURICE, of Rins-
kaheen Lodge, in the County of Tipperary, Ireland, at present residing at
48, Rue de la Fourche, Brussels, Belgium. "AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF
APPARATUS FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRE ON BOARD SHIPS, AND PREVENTING
EXPLOSIONS OF GASES IN CARGOES AND BUNKERS."
The extinction of fire in ships or buildings by exhausting the air by means of
air pumps from the holds, bunkers, compartments, or chambers of any kind, and
when further necessary by filling the vacuum thus created with steam, and by
means of the air pumps to ascertain the presence of gas in any holds, bunkers, or
compartments, or other stores, and to expel the gas therefrom by the said air
pumps to prevent fire or explosion of gas.
To carry out this Invention (the holds, bunkers, compartments, or other stores
being kept as air-tight as possible), it is intended to insert one or more tubes or
pipes of a convenient length and size through the hatches, bunkers, or compart-
inents, &c., with a screw on the joint and a cock at the outside of each tube or
pipe on the part outside the hatch,-bunker, or compartment, &c. In the event of
fire it is intended to carry a hose or pipe from all or any of the outside joints of
the hatch, bunker, or compartment, &c., to one or more hand or steam worked air
pumps, and to exhaust the air from the holds, compartiments, &c., or cargoes of
ships to the degree required. When this is effected it is intended to attach a hose
or pipe to the cock on the outside of the tube or pipe that is inserted into the
hatch, compartment, &c., and carry it thence to the boiler and there connect it and
turn on the steam, cutting off the connection with the air pumps, and complete the
extinction of the fire if not already extinguished by the exhaustion of the air.
In all cases of gas to apply the air pumps to detect and expel the gas, but for
these purposes it is not necessary for the holds, bunkers, &c., to be rendered
air-tight.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Fitzmaurice, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
WILLIAM EDWARD FITZMAURICE. (L.S.)
Signed and sealed by the above named
Willian Edward Fitzmaurice, in the
presence of
JNO. G. JEFFES,
H. B. M. Pro.. Consul,
Brussels.
Consular
Stamp.