Specification of John Browne : chimneys or flues, and apparatus for increasing draught, consuming smoke, or utilizing the same.

  • Browne, John.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of John Browne : chimneys or flues, and apparatus for increasing draught, consuming smoke, or utilizing the same. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.I). 1853.N° 1192. Chimneys or Flues, and Apparatus for Increasing Draught, Consuming Smoke, or Utilizing the same. (This Invention did not proceed to the Great Seal.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Browne at the * Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th May 1853. I, John Browne, of Upper Charlotte Street, in the County of 5 Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements is the Construction op Chimneys or Flues, and in Apparatus for Increasing Draught, Consuming Smoke, or Utilizing the same,” to be as follows :— I propose, in most instances, to dispense with the use of stacks or 10 tall chimneys, carrying the flue or smoke conductor only so high as may be necessary to bring into play the remaining portions of my In¬ vention. I cause, by any motive power, a cylinder to revolve, and as the smoke rises this cylinder will receive it; and in order that it may not return downwards, (or, where the tall chimney is still used and my 15 apparatus applied,) upward, and to increase the draught, I place a fan wheel opposite to the first-named cylinder, so that if the chimney be a short one covered over at the top, apertures are to be left therein near the top and facing each other; the smoke on rising would endeavour