Specification of Pierre Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau : apparatus and arrangements for conducting, collecting, and purifying the smoke arising from public and private dwellings.

  • Fontaine, Pierre Armand Moreau, comte de.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Pierre Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau : apparatus and arrangements for conducting, collecting, and purifying the smoke arising from public and private dwellings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    De Fontaine Moreau s Impts. in Conducting, Consuming, $•<?., Smoke. tion, and in what the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal to be inrolled in Her said Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear. 5 NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Pierre Armand Lecomte de Fontaine Moreau, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention communicated to me, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing here- 10 unto annexed, and to the figures and letters therein contained (that is to say):— The Invention communicated to me consists in gathering and extracting from all private, public, and other buildings the smoke of fires, and in con¬ ducting it, by means of underground pipes, to general reservoirs, where it is 15 consumed and disengaged from ammoniacal compounds and deleterious gases, whence it is sent out into the air inodorous and colourless. The evils arising from the aggregation of vast and dense clouds of smoke over large towns and cities has for a long while demanded that some efficient means should be employed to obtain their complete dispersion. It will be 20 useless to dwell on that imperious necessity, though it will not be too much to say that London would be considered the finest city in the world if its atmosphere were not ever loaded with a thick, heavy, and yellow canopy, arising from the immense quantity,of smoke too dense to be scattered even by the winds. By the new and improved mode herein-after described, of 25 conducting, consuming, disinfecting, and dispelling the smoke and ammoniacal products and deleterious gases arising from the burning of coals, the laws of natural philosophy, conjointly with some of the means already put in practice, on account of their simplicity and efficiency, and which have supported the test of long experience, have been taken as bases ; it is therefore by means of the 30 three herein-after described improvements that the important results already pointed out are obtained. Firstly, to determine the draught of each separate lire, in order to carry away the smoke; secondly, to gather the smoke in a general reservoir; thirdly, to consume the smoke when accumulated, and to separate it from its deleterious components. 35 First Improvement. Io determine the draught of each separate fire, in order to carry away the smoke. The first improvement comports in itself many others, which, although