Specification of William Wood : apparatus for condensing smoke from furnaces &c.

  • Wood, William (Screenwriter)
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of William Wood : apparatus for condensing smoke from furnaces &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^^VWWWVA/VWWWW Apparatus for Condensing Smoke from Furnaces, &c. 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 5 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 10 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 15 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 20 forced into the water necessary for its condensation, as shewn in the accompanying Drawing, described as follows: