IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR DRAIN. .ING OR DRYING STEAM PREVIOUS TO ITS EMPLOYMENT FOR WORKING STEAM ENGINES OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Ireland, of Macclesfield, in the County of
Chester, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR DRAIN.
.ING OR DRYING STEAM PREVIOUS TO ITS EMPLOYMENT FOR WORKING STEAM
ENGINES OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES."-A communication from abroad by
August Heinrich Corneling Bachmann of Hamburgh
Sealed the 6th November 1866, and dated the 8th May 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Ireland at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th
May 1866.
I, WILLIAM IRELAND, of Macclesfield, in the County of Chester, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR DRAINING OR DRYING STEAM PREVIOUS TO ITS EMPLOYMENT FOR WORKING STEAM
ENGINES OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES," a communication to me from abroad by
August Heinrich Cornelius Bachmann, of Hamburgh, to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improved apparatus for draining or drying steam
by affording facilities for the escape of the water from condensed steam, or
the water mixed with steam by priming, or when both conditions are combined.
To the steam pipe between the steam boiler and the engine, or machine or
apparatus in which the steam is to be employed, I attach a chamber formed

page_text: of two parts bolted together, at the upper part of the chamber there are two
pipes and nozzles, one pipe for the ingress of steam and the other for its exit,
the egress pipe in the interior of the vessel being terminated by an open dome,
and the ingress pipe leading to the space around the dome to the interior of
the chamber, and also to the interior of the dome and egress pipe. In the
interior of the lower part of the chamber I place a hollow metallic sphere,
having at the bottom a spindle connected to a valve., working in connection
with a valve seating and pipe at the bottom of the chamber. The steam
from the boiler and the water incorporated with it plays upon the exterior of
the dome, the effect of which is to separate the water from the steam, the
water falling to the bottom of the chamber and the dry steam passing
through the dome and egress pipe, and as the water increases in depth the
float rises and opens the valve for the water to escape, there being arms at
the top of the float which can come in contact with the bottom of the dome
for preventing the float and valve from rising too high.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
'by the said William Ireland in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th November 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
IRELAND, of Macclesfield, in the County of Chester, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her reign,
did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Ireland, Her special license that I, the said William Ireland, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Ireland, my 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 "IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR DRAINING OR DRYING STEAM PREVIOUS TO ITS EMPLOYMENT FOR WORKING STEAM
ENGINES OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES," being a communication to me from abroad by
August Heinrich Cornelius Bachmann, of Hamburgh, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Ireland, my executors or adminis-
irittors, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands

page_text: 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 calendur
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
• NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Ireland, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment thereof, reference being had to the Figures on the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon (that is to say) :-
This Invention consists in improved apparatus for draining or drying steam
by affording facilities for the escape of the water from condensed steam, or
the water mixed with steam by priming, or when both conditions are com-
bined. Fig. 1 of the accompanying Drawings being an elevation, Fig. 2 a
section, and Fig. 3 a plan of the said apparatus. To the steam pipe between
the boiler and the engine, or machine or apparatus in which the steam is to
be employed, I attach a chamber formed of two parts a, b, bolted together,
the upper part having two pipes or nozzles c, d, the pipe c for the ingress of
steam, and the other pipe d for its exit. The egress pipe d in the interior
of the chamber is terminated by an open dome f, Fig. 2, and the ingress
pipe c leads to the space g around the dome to the interior of the chamber
and also to the interiors of the dome and egress pipe; in the lower part of
the chamber there is a copper float h connected to rod i, working at the
top in a guide k, fixed to the chamber and attached at the bottom to a valve l,
working in connection with a valve seating m, and an opening or pipe n at
the bottom of the chamber. The float may be of any desired shape, but in
Fig. 2 it is shewn in the form of a sphere having in the interior a tube o,
through which is passed the rod i which is afterwards firmly held to the
float by the screw and nut p. The flange of the pipe c is bolted to the
steam pipe connected with the boiler, and the flange of the pipe d to the
engine, machine, or apparatus in which the dry steam is to be used, and when
the supply valve of the boiler is opened the steam and the water incorporated
with it plays upon the exterior of the dome, the effect of which is to separate
the water from the steam, the water falling to the bottom of the chamber
and the dry steam passing through the dome and egress pipe, and as the
water increases in depth the float rises and opens the valve for the water
to escape, there being near the top of the rod i a projecting part 9 which can
come in contact with the fixed guide k for preventing the float and valve
from rising too high.
Having now described the nature and particulars of the said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood
that I claim the improved open dome and egress pipe in the interior of a
chamber for draining or drying steam previous to its employment for
working steam engines or for other purposes, as all such improvements are
herein described and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Ireland, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named William Ireland, in
⚫the presence of
G. SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
WILLIAM IRELAND. (L.B.)