Specification of William Cornelius English : apparatus for heating steam or air, applicable to boilers of steam engines, evaporators, &c.

  • English, William Cornelius.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of William Cornelius English : apparatus for heating steam or air, applicable to boilers of steam engines, evaporators, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    English's Improved Application of Heated Water, Steam Air, $c. furnace, and are not (at least in any considerable degree) destroyed by steam, and that the inner face or lining of the said tube or tubes or other appropriate vessels or receptacles must indispensably be of such a nature as to withstand the action of the steam employed, and that in this construction of apparatus I 5 prefer a lining or inside facing of brass or copper within the tube or tubes, vessels or receptacles as aforesaid, and farther that I do in general leave the communication from the boiler through the said tube or tubes or other appro¬ priate vessels or receptacles unto the steam engine or apparatus, at or upon which the steam is intended to act, open or without obstruction as to the 10 passage thereof, but that I do also, in such applications as may require the communication to be occasional or by intervals, apply and use a valve or valves, sluice or sluices, cock or cocks, or other similar well-known contrivances, to regulate, limit, and dispose of the said communication according to the means and in the manner in which such regulation, limitation, and disposal are 15 commonly made. And I do further declare that I do also expose air to the action of heat in the said tube or tubes or other appropriate vessels or recep¬ tacles in order to expand and apply the same to the purposes herein-before and herein-after mentioned; and that I do cause the same to pass through the said tube or tubes or other appropriate vessels or receptacles by means of a 20 pump or such other instrument as shall produce the requisite motion for the supply ; and, lastly, I do declare that steam or air heated according to my said method may be advantageously applied for the communication of heat to vessels for evaporating and other purposes, and to plates, floors, or chambers for drying gunpowder or other articles, and to flues or tubes for heating 25 buildings, as well as to a variety of objects which it is not necessary to enumerate or describe. In witness whereof, I, the said William Cornelius English, have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and ten. 30 WILLIAM CORNELIUS (l.s.) ENGLISH. Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of Sam1 Gale, 35 Bedford Street, Bedford Row.