Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Jan., 1887
Complete Left, 16th Sept., 1887
. Complete Accepted, 8th Nov., 1887
I FRANCIS BOTTING Domestic Engineer of 6 Baker Street Portman Square W.
London in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
A machine driven by Horse Steam or other Power & either stationary, or, on
wheels, the bottom part, is a steam jacketted trough with Gills from back to front, or
parallel with the arms, as below; and above this Trough is supported a revolving
shaft hollow in the centre, on which is attached arms; which revolve with the shaft,
also hollow; to the centre of the shaft is admitted steam, (the generation of which
has no reference to this patent); which is also allowed to enter & pass thro' the
arms as they revolve & likewise to the jacket of trough steam is admitted on the
arms being rotated they pass between the Gills of the trough, crushing to small pieces
any lumps & in rotation, if carried round on the arms are melted by the heated
metal of the arms caused by the steam admitted thereto Snow can either be shot
onto the trough from carts or by plough or other such means, the doing of which
is no claim to this invention, but, the heated water in the trough between the gills is
intended to add greatly to the dispersing power when the Snow is crushed by
the arms.
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page_text: I FRANOIS BOTTING Domestic Engineer of 6 Baker Street Portman Square W.
London in the County of Middlesex 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:
A machino for dispersing Snow-A machine that can be driven or actuated i.e. by
Horse, Steam, or other such Power, from the Spur Wheel or Pinion or pulloy at Å
and the machine may either be used as a Stationary, or travelling machine working
if so used on wheels B. At the bottom is a Gilled trough the same having an outer
jacket so forming a steam spaco C between each of the Gills D, and between these
same Gills on the outer side are revolving arms F these arms are actuated by the
pulley A on which they are fixed by being bolted, koyed, or such like means of
securing same, to the hollow shaft E on which the pulley A is also attached in like
manner.
Into the end of this shaft G, & so by means being provided, is admitted steam
passing along & into each of the arms C, which are made hollow to receive same; at
the ends or other such suitable place is an outlet for the condense water to pass away.
[The means of generating steain is no part of this patent] Steam also is taken to the
side of the steam bottom & an outlet is also provided for escape condense. Steam
being at one & the same time in the jacket at the bottom, & the arms, & the arms
revolving, they pass between the Gills at the bottom, so crushing the snow (if in lumps)
& by the heat melting same at the same time; When any snow should be melted it is
carried up by the arms & in laying on same in their upward course is melted, the
water falling between the arms is caught in the trough below; which being at a high
temperature is made at once hot so overflowing the sides of the machine Snow can
be shot into the machine at the front L. by various means, which are no part of this
patent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
& in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
First. A machine to disperse snow.
Second. A machine that will break up & melt the snow.