Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 28th Sept.,
1888
We ARTHUR LOWCOCK of The Economiser Works Shrewsbury in the county of
Shropshire Engineer and THOMAS SYKES of 385 Stockport Road Manchester in the
county of Lancaster Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
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Our invention refers to the apparatus known as "fuel economisers" and hereinafter
referred to as fuel economisers" and our invention consists partly in arrangements
by means of which we ensure that the water to be heated and passing through each
fuel economiser shall be distributed equally or uniformly or nearly equally or nearly
uniformly among the sets or sections of vertical pipes of which the fuel economiser
is composed.
In order to accomplish the object of our invention we form the pipes by which the
bottom boxes of the sections of the fuel economiser respectively receive water from
the pipe by means of which water is supplied to the fuel economiser, of such
diameter that the sum of the sectional areas of all of the said pipes shall not
exceed the sectional area of the pipe by means of which water is supplied to all the
sections of the fuel economiser. We provide the bottom box of each of the sections
of the "fuel economiser" with a flange or plate or other suitable appliance to which
is secured one end of, or a flange or plate formed upon or attached to the pipe by
We secure the other end
means of which water is supplied to the said bottom box.
of the said pipe by means of a flange or plate or other suitable means to the pipe
by means of which water is supplied to the whole of the sections of the fuel econo-
miser. By removing the pipe by means of which water is supplied to each bottom
box from the pipe by means of which water is supplied to the whole of the sections
of the fuel economiser and the flanges or plates or other parts connected to such
pipe ready access is obtained to the interior of the bottom box to which such pipe is
secured when in use and no disturbance of the joints of any other of the sections of
the fuel economiser need be caused.
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W. T. CHEETHAM,
Carlton Chambers,
18, St. Ann's Street, Manchester,
Agent to the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Apparatus known as "Fuel Economisers."
We ARTHUR Lowcock of The Economiser Works Shrewsbury in the County of
Shropshire Engineer and THOMAS SYKES of 385 Stockport Road Manchester in the
County of Lancaster Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
ained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention refers to the apparatus known as "fuel economisers" and hereinafter
referred to as "fuel economisers" and our invention consists partly in arrangements
by means of which we ensure that the water to be heated and passing through each
fuel economiser shall be distributed equally or uniformly or nearly equally or nearly
uniformly among the sets or sections of vertical pipes of which the fuel economiser
is composed.
In order to accomplish the object of our invention we form the pipes by which the
bottom boxes of the sections of the fuel economiser respectively receive water from
the pipe by means of which water is supplied to the fuel economiser, of such diameter
that the sum of the sectional areas of all the said pipes shall not exceed the sectional
area of the pipe by means of which water is supplied to all the sections of the fuel
economiser We provide the bottom box of each of the sections of the "fuel
economiser" with a flange or plate or other suitable appliance to which is secured one
end of a flange or plate formed upon or attached to the pipe by means of which water
is supplied to the said bottom box-We secure the other end of the said pipe by
means of a flange or plate or other suitable means to the pipe by means of which
water is supplied to the whole of the sections of the fuel economiser-By removing
the pipe by means of which water is supplied to each bottom-box from the pipe by
means of which water is supplied to the whole of the sections of the fuel economiser
and the flanges or plates or other parts connected to such pipe ready access is obtained
to the interior of the bottom box to which such pipe is secured when in use and no
disturbance of the joints of any other of the sections of the fuel economiser need be
caused.
The accompanying drawings show so much of a fuel economiser as is requisite to
illustrate our invention Fig. 1 being a side elevation and Fig. 2 a cross section.
a a are the vertical pipes of the fuel economiser the lower end of each of which is
secured in a socket formed on one or other of a series of bottom-boxes b-Each of
the bottom-boxes is provided with a flange b' to which is secured by bolts 62 a flange
or plate c formed with or attached to which is a pipe d by means of which water is
supplied to the bottom-box-Upon the end of the pipe d we form or secure a flange e
which is secured by means of bolts e¹ to a flange f formed upon a pipe f by means of
which water is supplied to the whole of the sections of the fuel economiser-We so
form the pipes d by means of one of which each of the bottom-boxes receives water
from the pipef that the sum of the sectional areas of all of the pipes d shall not
exceed the sectional area of the pipe f-By the above described arrangements we

page_text: ensure that the water to be heated and passing through the fuel economiser shall be
distributed equally or uniformly or nearly equally or nearly uniformly amongst the
sets or sections of the vertical pipes a of which the fuel economiser is composed.
By removing one of the pipes d and the flanges c, e connected to it from the pipe f
and bottom-box 6 in conjunction with which such pipe d is used ready access is
obtained to the interior of the bottom-box 6 in conjunction with which such pipe d is
used The removal of any one of the pipes d and the flanges c, e used therewith from
the pipe fand bottom box 6 in conjunction with which it is used may take place
without any disturbance of the joints of any other of the sections of the fuel economiser
being caused.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The herein before described mode of causing the water passing through a fuel
economiser to be distributed equally or uniformly or nearly equally or nearly uniformly
among the sets or sections of the vertical pipes of which such fuel economiser is
composed which mode consists in forming each of the pipes d of such diameter that
the sum of the sectional areas of all of the said pipes d shall not exceed the sectional
area of the pipe f by means of which water is supplied to the fuel economiser.
2. For use in a fuel economiser, pipes such as d each provided or formed with
flanges such as c, e and employed in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore
described in reference to and shown in and by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this I wenty first day of August 1000.
THOMAS SYKES.
W. T. Cheetham,
Manchester,
Agent to the Applicants.