Specification of John White : apparatus for consuming smoke.

  • White, John.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Specification of John White : apparatus for consuming smoke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Apparatus for Oonsuming Smoke. {This Invention received Provisional Protection only,) PEOVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John White at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th September 1871. I, John White, of Edinburgh, in the County of Mid Lothian, 6 North Britain, Mill Master, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of Impeovements in Buening oe Consuming Smoke and in Appaeatus empioyed theeefoe,” to be as follows, that is to say:— This Invention has for its object to bum or consume the smoke escaping from the combustion of fuel in furnaces, thereby efiPecting 10 economy in fuel; and the apparatus or means by which the said object is effected consists of a chamber situated in that portion of the flue beyond the fire-grate. The chamber is situated so that the flame and burning gases pass onwards through it from the fire-grate to the flues, and in the sides of 15 the chamber a series of openings are formed through which the unburnt gases escape into side receptacles. The chamber is formed of fire-brick or other refractory material, and beneath it another chamber is situated divided throughout the greater portion of its length by a diagonal