Specification of Samuel Brewster Parker : apparatus for consuming smoke.

  • Parker, Samuel Brewster.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Samuel Brewster Parker : apparatus for consuming smoke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1854 .N° 863. Apparatus for Consuming Smoke. LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Brewster Parker, of Deptford, in the County of Kent, Chemist, for the Invention of “ An Improved Apparatus for Consuming Smoke.” Sealed the 6th June 1854, and dated the 13th April 1854. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Brewster Parker at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 13th April 1854. I, Samuel Brewster Parker, of Deptford, in the County of Kent, Chemist, 5 do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ An Improved Appa¬ ratus for Consuming Smoke, ” consists of a moveable air chamber of clay or metal, open at bottom and perforated at top, to be placed upon the fire bars next to the bridge of the furnace. Air entering from the ash pit passes up between the fire bars into this air chamber, and becoming heated 10 escapes through the perforations into the furnace, where, meeting with the unconsumed carbon and other combustible gases passing from the fuel to the bridge of the furnace, it causes them to ignite and be consumed, instead of passing off to the chimney in the form of smoke. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by * _ 15 the said Samuel Brewster Parker in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th October 1854. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Samuel Brewster Parker, of Deptford, in the County of Kent, Chemist, send greeting. 20 WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord