ABSTRACTING AND CONDENSING SMOKE ARISING FROM STEAM ENGINES AND OTHER FURNACES, AND OBTAINING A SUPPLY OF AIR FOR SUPPORTING THE COMBUSTION OF THE FUEL IN SUCH FURNACES, THEREBY SUPERSEDING THE NECESSITY OF CHIMNEY SHAFTS AND FUNNELS
Year: 1853

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Wood at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd November 1853.
(Void by reason of notice to proceed not having been given within the
time prescribed by the Act.)
I, WILLIAM WOOD, of 126, Chancery Lane, in the City of London,
Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"ABSTRACTING AND CONDENSING SMOKE ARISING FROM STEAM ENGINES AND
OTHER FURNACES, AND OBTAINING A SUPPLY OF AIR FOR SUPPORTING THE
COMBUSTION OF THE FUEL IN SUCH FURNACES, THEREBY SUPERSEDING THE
NECESSITY OF CHIMNEY SHAFTS AND FUNNELS," to be as follows:-
The smoke is abstracted by means of fans, having a rotary motion
communicated to them by means of wind, water, steam, air, compressed
air, gas, galvanism, electro-magnetism, animal, manual, or any other
known power, working in a box having a communication with the flue
or flues of the furnace or furnaces by means of pipes entering at both
sides of such box, thereby producing a partial vacuum, and causing
the necessary supply of air to rush through the furnace to support
combustion, likewise the centrifugal force, by which the smoke is
forced into the water necessary for its condensation, as shewn in the
accompanying Drawing, described as follows:"

page_text: No 1, is the side elevation of the box containing the fans, the side
flues communicating with the furnace, the descending funnel or funnels,
wherever it may be considered necessary to have more than one, com-
municating with the water necessary for condensation, and the wheel
or pulley communicating with the power causing the rotary motion.
No 2, is the end elevation, shewing the same parts as N° 1, in a
different position.
No 3, is the longitudinal section of the same, shewing the inside of
the box, with the fans, spindle, the pipe communicating with the flue,
the funnel communicating with the water necessary for condensation;
the arrows shew the course of the smoke.
No 4, is the transverse section of the same, shewing the same parts
as in No 3, but in a different position, and a section of the wheel com-
municating with the power causing the rotary motion.
The different parts in the Drawing referred to in this Specification
are marked as follows:
A, the pipe, forming a communication with the flue or flues, of the
furnace, made of metal' or other substance.
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B, the box made of metal or other substance enclosing the fans.
C, the shaft on which the fans are fixed: .
D, D, D, D, D, D, the fans, made of metal or other substance, the
number of which may be greater or less than shewn in the Drawing,
and either curved parralel to the radius of the circle formed by their
revolutions or at an angle with the radius.
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E, E, the funnel communication with the water necessary for con-
densation of the smoke, and which may be branched off' in one or more
directions, as circumstances may require.
F, F, the wheel fixed on the same spindle with the fans, communi-
cating by band, strap, chain, rope, or gear work, as may be considered
necessary, with the power causing the rotary motion.