Specification of Samuel Hopkinson and Edwin Hopkinson : smoke-consuming apparatus.

  • Hopkinson, Samuel.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Specification of Samuel Hopkinson and Edwin Hopkinson : smoke-consuming apparatus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1865.—N° 584. Provisional Specification, 2: S. <$* JE. Hopkinsons Improvements in Smoke-consuming Apparatus. The action of the apparatus is as follows:—Air descending the stack or funnel in passing through the chambers and pipes becomes heated. On emission through the hole or holes in the flanged end of the pipe near the bridge it meets with the flame coming through the contracted aperture before named, and mingling with it consumes the smoke entirely or nearly so. 5 LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1865.