IMPROVED MEANS FOR PRODUCING MORE PERFECT COMBUSTION IN STEAM BOILER AND OTHER FURNACES AND IN THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR"
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVIDIONAL FECIFICATION.
I, SAMUEL RICHARD SMYTH of Ducie Street Clapham in the County of Surrey
Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVED
MEANS FOR PRODUCING MORE PERFECT COMBUSTION IN STEAM BOILER AND OTHER
FURNACES AND IN THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR" to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is threefold vizt 1° To greatly economise the
consumption of fuel in a furnace-2° To obtain increased heat therein-3° To
consume the smoke.
This I effect by producing more perfect combustion than has hitherto been
practicable by means of atomised liquid carbo-hydro compounds of any base but
particularly Petroleum, and also of atomised liquid oxyhydro compounds such as
decomposed steam or water.
These compounds I employ either separately or in combination with each other
or with the atmosphere-or with oxygen or hydrogen as the case may demand and
in combination with the fuel and gases of the furnace so as to generate heat therein
which is effected by their decomposition and combination which results in their
conversion into carbonic acid and carbonic oxide-thus producing oxy-hydro-
carbon heat.
To carry out my invention I provide and fit to the front of the furnace in any
convenient position suitable atomising injectors so constructed as to atomise and
distribute the liquid compounds in the furnace for conversion into elements
of heat.
I also provide accumulators or holders of any convenient capacity wherein to
store such liquid compounds, and fit the same with suitable floats, gauges, pipes,
valves and other appliances so that such liquid compounds can be fed therefrom
into the before mentioned atomising injectors.
The accumulators are placed at such an altitude as to create sufficient force or
pressure to break up the liquid compounds into atoms at the atomising injectors
through which they pass and are conducted into the furnace where they commingle
with the incandescent fuel and smoke and other products of combustion and are
decomposed and combined and converted into elements of heat thus causing more
perfect combustion-consuming the smoke-producing greater heat and effecting a
considerable saving in fuel.

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I Samuel RichaRD SMYTH of Ducie Street Clapham Civil Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVED MEANS FOR PRODUCING, MORE
PERFECT
COMBUSTION
IN
IN STEAM BOILER AND OTHER FURNACES AND
THE
APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is threefold vizt 1° To greatly economise the
consumption of fuel in a furnace 2° To obtain increased heat therein-3° To
consume the smoke.
This I effect by producing more perfect combustion than has hitherto been
practicable by means of atomised liquid hydro carbons of any base but more
particularly Petroleum or creosote and atomised liquid oxyhydrogen compounds
such as water or steam or decomposed steam.
These compounds I employ either separately or in combination with each other
or with the atmosphere-or with oxygon or hydrogen as the case may demand and
in combination with the fuel and gases of the furnace so as to generate heat therein
which is effected by their decomposition combination and conversion into carbonic
acid and carbonic oxide-thus producing oxyhydro-carbon heat.
To carry out my invention I provide and fit to the front of the furnace in
any convenient position suitable atomising injectors so constructed as to atomise
and distributo the liquid compounds in the furnace for conversion into elements
of heat.
I also provide accumulators or holders of any convenient capacity wherein to
storo such liquid compounds and fit the same with suitable floats gauges, pipes,
valves and other appliances so that such liquid compounds can be fed therefrom to
the atomising injectors.
These accumulators are placed at such an altitude as to create sufficient force or
pressure to break up the liquid compounds into atoms at the atomising injectors
through which they pass and are conducted into the furnace where they commingle
with the incandescent fuel and smoke and other products of combustion and are
decomposed combined and converted into elements of heat thus causing more
perfect combustion consuming the smoke,-producing greater heat and effecting a
considerable saving in fuel.
The accompanying drawings shew front and side views of a steam boiler with
two flues having my invention applied thereto In the side view Fig 2 the outer
casing of the boiler is shown partly removed in order to shew the internal con-
struction and arrangement-Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts in both Figures a is a safety valve to which the steam pipes 6 are attached—
These pipes pass either below the furnace bars as shewn or above and are connected
to a steam coil c or its equivalent which decomposes the steam-The steam is then
passed through pipes done only of which is shewn to the atomising injectors e
which are attached to the furnace front of the boiler-The surplus decomposed

page_text: steam is passed through the atomising injectors into the pipes and enters the
steam boiler through a valve h.
The steam pipe for the coil is fitted with a stop valve marked - are pressure
guages to indicate the pressure-The atomising injectors are worked by hand
wheels which are shewn on the furnace front and marked nm is a supply pipo
leading from the accumulators or holders containing the liquid compounds to and
connected with the atomising injectors by connecting pipes m³-The accu-
mulators or holders are not shewn as they are of similar construction to those
shewn and described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to me and
numbered 8583/8
If preferred only one accumulator or holder may be used The liquid compounds
impinge upon the incandescent fuel on the grate bars in the form of spray as shewn
in Fig 2.
My invention may be readily applied either to a single boiler or to a range of
three or more boilers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1° The employment of atomised liquid hydro carbons of any base and par-
ticularly of petroleum or creosote and of atomised liquid oxyhydro compounds such
as water or steam or decomposed steam either separately or together or in combi-
nation with the atmosphere or with oxygen or hydrogen substantially in the manner
and for the purposes herein before specified:
2° The apparatus constructed combined arranged and fitted substantially in the
manner and for the purposes herein before specified.