Improvements in and relating to Air Cleansing Apparatus.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1898-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Air Cleansing Apparatus.
I, JOSEPH MC.CREERY, a Citizen of the United States of America, residing at 1409,
Indiana Avenue, in the City of Toledo, County of Lucas and State of Ohio, United
States of America, Gentleman, 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 :--
The accompanying drawing represents a sectional view of my device applied
in use.
In said drawing, A represents one or more apartments of a building, vessel, or
other analogous structure. B denotes an induction or inlet pipe for supplying
fresh air to said apartinents. This pipe prefer to lead above the top of the
building or other structure so as to introduce into the building air as pure and fresh
as possible. D represents a fan blower designed to force air through the inlet
pipe B and the supply pipe B₁ into one or more apartments of a building, vessel, or
other structure.
In the drawing I have shown an electric motor D2 for driving the fan pulley D¹.
B2 represents a series of branch pipes leading from the main supply pipe B¹ to any
I have shown a portion of the
desired portions of the building or other structure.
branch pipes terminating with nozzles B³.
My device relates to the provision of a novel cleansing device located in the
induction pipe B, indicated at K. The cleansing device consists of a case K¹ into
which the pipe B enters, the chamber within the case K' being provided with a
series of inclined shelves or plates / preferably arranged on opposite sides of the
case alternately, the various shelves or plates projecting on an incline toward the
opposite wall of the case, the inner edges of the plates overlapping as shown. Into
the chamber in the case K¹ at the top thereof, I lead a water pipe L which may be
provided with a controlling valve L¹. At the base of the case K¹ I provide a
drain pipe M, with which may communicate an overflow pipe M¹.
The case K¹ is interposed into the pipe B, a continuation of the pipe B leading
from the base of the case K¹ to the fan D.
The operation of the cleansing device will be understood.
Water is fed from the pipe L into the chamber within the case K¹, the water
passing from shelf to shelf in its downward passage, while the air is simultaneously
drawn, by the suction of the fan, through the cleansing device, whereby cinders,
dust, and other impurities are effectually eliminated, and the air is thus purified.
While I have shown the cleansing device located at the lower end of the pipe B,
I would have it understood that it might be located anywhere where it might be
found desirable. I would have it understood, however, that my invention con-
templates the ventilating apparatus herein described, in combination with the
cleansing device interposed into the pipe B.
The chamber within the case K of the cleansing device is intended to be
considerably enlarged, so that its sectional area will be much larger than the
sectional area of the pipe B, so that the velocity of the air through said chamber
will be materially reduced so as not to draw the water out of the chamber.
Ice may readily be located in the base of said chamber, if desired, through a

page_text: suitable door in the case thereof in warm weather, so as to cool the air in the heated
seasons.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim, is :-
An air cleansing case having within it two series of solid shelves placed inclined
across the case, the shelves of each series being secured at one end to one side of
the case, but not at the other end, the shelves of the two series alternating, in
combination with an air induct pipe, and a water induct pipe connected with the
case above the shelves, and an air educt pipe and a water educt pipe connected with
the case below the shelves, as set forth.
1000
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.