Specification of Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy : furnaces and other fire-places.

  • Guffroy, Charles Constant Joseph.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Specification of Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy : furnaces and other fire-places. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Guffroy s Improved Smoke-consuming Apparatus. from the fresh fuel passing off into the heat flue without first traversing the incandescent mass. As an exemplification, I proceed to shew by the following description and annexed Drawing, the manner in which my Invention may be carried into effect, and in my final Specification I shall shew the apparatus adapted to 5 various boilers and furnaces for melting, heating, &c. Figure 1 is a vertical section, and Figure 2 a horizontal section, on the line x,x9 of Figure 1. The fuel is introduced at a9 and soon commences to give off its gaseous products from contact with the incandescent fuel upon which it rests, the great mass of incandescent fuel, as at a\ at which part numerous 10 jets of air are introduced through nozzles c, c1. a111 is the caloric or heat flue for conveying the heat where it may be required. The tail of the fire-place is at a11, and through the door e cinders and clinkers are removed when necessary. d is a partition, which in the case of boilers may be a water space. This partition prevents the products from the fresh fuel passing away except 15 through the red hot mass of fuel. The bottom part of the apparatus is shewn in three different forms at Figure 1, with and without a door, c11 are lateral air passages. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy in the Great Seal Patent go Office on the 21st November 1855. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy, Merchant, of Lille, Town in the French Empire, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters 25 Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such 30 others as I, the said Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy, my executors, adminis¬ trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an 35