Specification of John Robison and William Jackson : furnaces for consuming smoke.

  • Robison, John.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of John Robison and William Jackson : furnaces for consuming smoke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 A.D. 1853.—N° 2109. Provisional Specification. Robison § Jacksons Impts. in Furnaces for the Consumption of Smoke. cease to be evolved, and the other furnace may then be kindled, the damper closing the end of this second furnace ; the effect will be that the products of combustion therein will find no other vent than through the opening into the first fire place, through which they will be carried by the current of air, and passing along the first furnace 5 will mix with the flame from the burning fuel, and be thereby consumed. This process of mixing the products of both furnaces will continue along the first furnace over the bridge to the end of the tube. So soon as the fuel in the first furnace is burnt it may be fed in the usual manner with fresh fuel, care being taken at the same time so to 10 place the damper that the smoke from the fresh fuel shall have to pass likewise with the current of air through a space or flue into and along the other furnace, which will be in a state of active combustion. The process may then be thus continued by moving the handle of the damper from left to right when the left-hand furnace is fed, and 15 vice versa. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1854. • •' M x - , - -*