Improvements in Apparatus for and in the Manufacture of Water-gas.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 8th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for and in the Manufacture of
Water-gas.
We, SAMSON Fox, of the Leeds Forge, New Wortley, Leeds, in the County of York,
Engineer and Ironmaster, and EDWARD BLASS, of 78 Caledonian Road, Leeds afore-
said, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
Our invention relates to improvements in apparatus for the production of water-gas,
and has for object the producing of steam necessary for the making of such gas
without the use of a steam boiler in cases where there is no steam boiler already at
hand, and thereby simplifying the manufacture of such gas.
To effect this we heat up a regenerator by the gases produced in or by the generator
during the time of blowing up the fuel therein. Then we admit water under pressure
into the heated regenerator which impinging upon the heated parts or substance
constituting the regenerator is converted into steam. This steam passing through the
incandescent fuel in the generator makes water gas.
Instead of heating up the regenerator. by generator gases, this may be done by a
separate fire or by any other known means.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for and in the Manufacture of
Water-gas.
:
We, SAMSON Fox, of the Leeds Forge, New Wortley, Leeds, in the County of York,
Engineer and Ironmaster, and EDWARD BLASS, of 78 Caledonian Road, Leeds, afore-
said, 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 :-
Our invention relates to improvements in apparatus for the production of water-gas,
and has for object the producing of steam necessary for the making of such gas without
the use of a steam boiler in cases where there is no steam boiler already at hand, and
thereby simplifying the apparatus and manufacture of such gas.
To effect this we heat up a regenerator by the gases produced in or by the generator
during the time of blowing up the fuel therein. Then we admit water under pressure
into the heated regenerator which impinging upon the heated parts or substance
constituting the regenerator, is converted into steam. This steam passing through the
incandescent fuel in the generator makes water gas.
Instead of heating up the regenerator by generator gases this may be done by a
separate fire or by any other known means.
In the annexed drawings similar letters refer to like parts in both Figures.
Fig. 1. is a sectional elevation of an apparatus for the manufacture of water gas.
4, is the furnace called the generator, b, a hopper through which fuel is introduced
and which is afterwards closed. c, a passage or port connected with a valve con-
trolling the air inlet and gas outlet and through which a current of air is admitted for
blowing up the lighted fuel to an incandescent state, and the water gas withdrawn to
the receiver, or two passages may be provided according to the form of controlling
valve employed: d, the part known as the regenerator consisting of several courses
of open brick or quarry-work placed chequer-wise that is, one tier being placed

page_text: at right angles to that above or below it, leaving interstices between such bricks or
quarries.
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The producer gas generated by the partial combustion of the fuel during the process
of blowing hot, is ignited at the point e, where a jet of air controlled by the valve c
enters, mixing therewith, and induced by the action of the chimney f, to pass through
and heat the regenerator d, after which the damper f, and the air passages c, are
closed. Steam is then produced in the regenerator by the admission of water at g,
which coming in contact with the heated bricks or chequer work in the chamber d,
becomes vapourised and passes through the incandescent fuel and becomes decomposed,
the product of which decomposition is "Water-Gas" which passes through the pipe o,
or other passage to a receiver provided therefor.
Fig. 2. shews in section an alternative form of the apparatus in which the
regenerator has two chambers of chequered brick or quarry work, fuel, air and water
being admitted as above referred to in the description of Fig. 1. In this case the
steam first takes a downward course through the chamber No. 1, and then an upward
course through chamber No. 2. of the regenerator previous to passing through the
incandescent fuel to the receiver.
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
In apparatus for and in the manufacture of Water Gas, the producing, without the
use of a steam boiler, of steam necessary for the manufacture of such gas, substantially
as described and shewn.
Dated this day of Jan 180N
THOMAS EDWIN CRAVEN,
Agent for the Applicants.