A Condenser for Motor Vehicles.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Condenser for Motor Vehicles.
I, HENRY PERCY HOLT, of No. 22, Chancery Lane, in the County of London,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a light, compact construction of condenser for the steam
or vapour used for propulsion of a motor vehicle. 1 direct the exhaust steam or
vapour into a circularly bent horizontal tube or conduit from which it issues by a
number of inclined nozzles in jets playing upon the blades of a turbine which is
mounted on a vertical axis concentrically within the conduit. The steam after passing
the turbine blades flows into a segment of another circular conduit from which rises
through a number of flattened and corrugated tubes to a conduit segment above.
From this upper segment it passes into another segment on the same level, and
thence descends another set of tubes to another conduit segment below thus circulating
in an up and down zigzag course to the last of the lower segments whence the
liquid of condensation passes to a central well. On the axis of the turbine there
are fixed two fans or air propellers, the one on the level of the lower conduit
segments, the other on the level of the upper segments. These fans draw air into
the central space and propel it in all directions outwards between the corrugated
tubes cooling them so that the steam or vapour passing up and down through the
tubes becomes condensed. I prefer to arrange in the central space a revolving pipe
like a Barkers mill driven by the turbine so as to throw out fine water spray to
mingle with the air currents as they pass outwards.
The air after passing the condensing tubes is collected in an outer casing and led
by a conduit to mingle and pass away with the products of combustion from the
boiler.
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ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
1, HENRY PERCY HOLT of No. 22 Chancery Lane in the County of London,
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:-
My invention relates to a light, compact construction of condenser for the steam
or vapour used for propulsion of a motor vehicle as I shall describe referring to
the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section,
Fig. 2 is a sectional plan on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 part being broken away to
shew a part sectional plan on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

page_text: The exhaust steam or vapour from the engine is supplied to an annular horizontal
tube or conduit A from which it issues by a number of inclined nozzles a in jets
playing upon the blades b of a turbine B which is mounted on a vertical axis C
concentrically within the conduit. The steam after passing the turbine blades flows
by passage into a segment E of another circular conduit from which it rises
through a number of flattened tubes F wbich may be corrugated as shewn or
otherwise shaped to a conduit segment G above. From this upper segment G it
passes into other segments on the same level at each side of G and thence descends
another set of the tubes F to other conduit segments at each side of E, thus circulating
in an up and down zigzag course to the last of the upper segments H whence the
liquid of condensation passes down by pipes K to a central well from which it is
led by a pipe to the feed supply of the engine. On the axis C of the turbine
there are fixed two fans or air propellers M M the one on the level of the lower
conduit segments such as E the other on the level of the upper segments such as G.
These fans draw air into the central space and propel it in all directions outwards
as indicated by the arrows between the corrugated tubes F cooling them so that
the steam or vapour passing up and down through the tubes becomes con:lensed.
I prefer to fix to the fans M revolving pipes N N each like a Barker's mill so as
to throw out fine water spray to mingle with the air currents as they pass outwards.
Water for this purpose is supplied by a pipe P to the interior of the shaft C which
is hollow and with which the pipes N communicate.
The air after passing the condensing tubes is collected in the space outside the
tubes F within the casing Q and led by a conduit R (of which there may be several)
to mingle and pass away with the products of combustion from the boiler.
In Fig. 2 I have shewn tubes F only in one of the segments. It is to be
understood however that such tubes are arranged in each of the segments. All the
lower segments E communicate with an outer annular channel S, and in like manner
the upper segments G all communicate with an outer annular channel T.
These channels are divided by partitions some quite closed as s, some having
openings through them as t, these partitions alternating so as to determine the
alternate up and down flow of the steam or vapour through the tubes F.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
A condenser for a motor vehicle constructed and operating substantially as
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 16th day of March 1897.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.