Improvements in or applicable to Smoke-burning Apparatus.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Smoke-burning Apparatus.
We, HENRY TURNER of 73 Glebe Street, Engineer, and WILLIAM ALLEN of
48 Victoria Street, Mill Manager, both of Leigh in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of our said invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements in or applicable to smoke-burning
apparatus. Immediately behind the fire-bars we place a block or blocks composed of
Terra-cotta, Fire-clay, Brick or other analogous substance resistable to the action of
fire, which may be of any suitable size according to the flue or flues to which it may
be applied. Under the furnace is disposed one or more air inlets connected by a
passage or passages to outlets disposed above the fire, by which a constant current of
atmospheric air is supplied to perform or facilitate the consumption of smoke. The
outer end of this apparatus is bevelled so as to throw the heat and smoke down
together, by which action the gases are thoroughly ignited. The atmospheric air
is equally distributed over the surface of the fire by any number of openings of any
suitable form or shape.
Dated the 11th day of September 1896.
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.
Improvements in or applicable to Smoke-burning Apparatus.
We, HENRY TURNER of 73 Glebe Street, Engineer, and WILLIAM ALLEN of
48 Victoria Street, Mill Manager, both of Leigh in the County of Lancaster, do
hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention consists of improvements in or applicable to smoke-burning
apparatus. Immediately behind the fire-bars we place a block or blocks composed of
Terra-cotta, Fire-clay, Brick, or other analogous substance resistable to the action
of fire, which may be of any suitable size according to the flue or flues to which it
may be applied. Under the furnace is disposed one or more air inlets connected
by a passage or passages to outlets disposed above the fire, by which a constant
current of atmospheric air is supplied to perform or facilitate the consumption of
smoke. The outer end of this apparatus is bevelled so as to throw the heat and
smoke down together, by which action the gases are thoroughly ignited. The
atmospheric air is equally distributed over the surface of the fire by any number of
openings of any suitable form or shape.

page_text: Fig. 1 is a front elevation of our improved smoke-burning apparatus, and Fig. 2 a
longitudinal sectional elevation through line A B in Fig. 1.
Cis the flue of a boiler and D the fire-bars.
Immediately behind the fire-bars D are disposed the blocks E and G.composed of
either Terra-cotta, Fire-clay, Brick, or other analogous substance, such as, Ganister
and the like that will resist the action of fire, and may be of any suitable size
according to the dimensions of the flue or flues C to which it may be applied. Under
the fire-bars D and the furnace or fire thereon is disposed the air inlet H connected
by the passage or passages I to the chamber J provided with the openings or
outlets K disposed above the level of the fire on the fire-bars D, by and through
which a constant current of atmospheric air is supplied over the back end of the fire
to perform or facilitate the ignition of the gases thereby ensuring of the consumption
of smoke immediately it is formed. The outer end M of this apparatus is bevelled
as shown in Fig. 2 by which the heat and smoke are thrown or forced down
together, which action facilitates a thorough ignition of the gases as they are
delivered from the fuel on the fire. By placing the openings or outlets K in the
form shown in Fig. 1 atmospheric air is equally distributed over the surface of
the fire. The apparatus is constructed in parts as shown to facilitate erection in the
boiler flue or flues, being secured in any convenient manner by cement, or other
means. Under the block E is disposed the metallic frame P to which is hinged the
door Q by the pins R. The door Q is provided with the ring bolt T to which is
attached the chain V sufficiently long to allow of the door Q being opened and closed
from the front end of the boiler. The front side of the block E is protected from
the action of the fire by the fire-brick or tile W mounted on the ends of the
fire-bars D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
The general arrangement, construction, and combination of parts composing the
improved smoke-burning apparatus as hereinbefore described and as illustrated in
the annexed drawings.
Dated the 7th day of June 1907
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.