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, <$c., SmoJce. ■ — ■ — ■■— _ ■ ■ --- * to a, b, of Figure 1, Drawing I.; that Figure represents the chimnies of the apart¬ ments. The old flues for the smoke and the opening for the egress of heat are represented by dotted lines. Figure 3 is a section, according to a, b, of Figure 1, Drawing I., and represents two chimneys, set one against the other. In that Figure the tubes of each chimney are represented branching into the main 5 conduct pipe, which descends through the old flue of the lower chimney of the dwelling, and reaches the apparatus for separating the smoke, placed in the underground part of the house where the soot is deposited, and from which the smoke egresses into the main street pipes. In these three Figures the same letters of reference represent parts which are similar, a, 5, c, d, are the plates 10 by which the old flues of chimneys are shut, and through which, however, the external air penetrates to be heated, and enters the apartments, e is the register of the apparatus fdr the separation of the soot and for regulating the draught. /, f1, g> g\ h, h\ registers, serving to modify or suppress the draught in each room; j,j,j,j, openings for the egress- of the external air into the 15 appartments when heated by its contact with the pipes. In the herein-before described arrangements, represented by Figures 1, 2, and 3, of Drawing II., to apply the new system to old houses, the chimneys are employed to conduct the smoke pipes, by which means these said pipes are rendered heating chambers or calorifers; but in the houses to be constructed purposely for the applica- 20 tion of this Invention, and represented by Figures 4, 5, and 6 of the same Drawing H, the main smoke conduct pipe is made to pass through the dining-room or parlour where stoves may be erected, the construction of which serves for the application of this improved system. In the above three last Figures the same letters of reference represent parts which are similar; 25 a, b, c, d, e, /, represent the valves serving to modify or to suppress the draught of the apartments, and g is the valve of the apparatus for separating the soot, and serves to regulate the draught. The Figures 4, 5, and 6 are sections through c, d, a, b, and e,f, of the Figure 1, Drawing I.; each room where there is a chimney communicates with the next apartment, by means of an opening 30 through which the heat is made to egress. By that new mode of setting the draught, the chimney of the upper story can be employed to heat a whole house by regulating the valves set in each room, and that of the apparatus of separa¬ tion ; in that case, however, it is merely necessary to shut the hearths of the other rooms by means of the registers, with which the pipes, as herein-before 35 described, are provided. The apparatus for separating the soot, and which is represented in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, Drawing II., several times in section and elevation, is composed, firstly, of a cylindrical box, ending like a truncated cone, the