Improvements in Means for Preventing Incrustation in Kettles and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 28th May, 1894-Accepted, 7th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Preventing Incrustation in Kettles and
the like.
I, FRANCIS BUCKLAND Surveyor 6 Beulah Road Thornton Heath Surrey do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The objects of my invention are to prevent accumulations of the substance known
as stone in vessels used for heating water especially those in domestic use and to
arrest unprecipitated portions at the outflow:-I take a requisite number of pieces
of wire of suitable length, size, shape and material these I bind or otherwise fasten
together at some distance from each end. I distend the centre of the bundle of
wires and may enclose in the resultant cage or hollow, animal, or vegetable
charcoal, cork, fibre, small wire or other suitable material. I bend the ends of the
wires so as to bring them into contact with the bottom and sides of a kettle or other
vessel, or I weave wire net work, or make a coil of wire, or make a perforated case
of the required shape in either of which I may enclose charcoal, cork or other
material as mentioned above.
Dated this 30th day of August 1893,
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Preventing Incrustation in Kettles and
the like.
FRANCIS BUCKLAND Surveyor 6 Beulah Road Thornton Heath Surrey do
bereby 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 objects of my invention are to prevent accumulations of the substance known
as stone in vessels used for heating water especially those in domestic use and to
arrest unprecipitated portions at the outflow.
That my invention may be more readily understood I have attached hereto a
sheet of drawings in which Fig. 1. is an external longitudinal view and Fig. 2. a
cross section of one of the forms of apparatus employed.
I take a requisite number of pieces of wire of suitable length, size, shape and
material these I bind together and some distance from each end and distend the
centre of the bundle to form a cage preferably of the shape shown. In this cage I
enclose small wire, fibre, animal or vegetable charcoal cork or other suitable
substance as at EE. The cage may be made more complete by binding a ring or
rings of wire or a helix of wire inside or outside as at D D and I may further have
a layer of close wire netting inside the wires so as to retain the small wire,
charcoal or other contents. I bend the ends of the wires so as to bring them into
contact with the bottom and sides of the kettle or other vessel when in use. I may
leave loops at the ends instead of points. The apparatus is preferably placed in
the kettle or other vessel with both ends and the largest diameter of the cage
resting on the bottom, I may however weave a wire net work cage or make a coil
of wire or a perforated case of requisite shape in either of which I may enclose the
small wire, charcoal or other substance.

page_text: 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
A hollow cage of suitable form construction and material containing wire, fibre,
charcoal cork or other suitable filling as and for the purposes herein described.
Dated this 28th day of May 1894.
FRANCIS BUCKLAND.