Specification of Michael Henry : purifying smoke.

  • Henry, Michael.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Specification of Michael Henry : purifying smoke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Purifying Smoke.. (This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Michael Henry at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th April 1865.—A communication from abroad by Joseph Bourgeois and Jules Mathieu, both of 33, Boulevart Saint Martin, Paris, France. 5 I, Michael Henry, of 84, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for u Improvements in the Mode of and Apparatus for Purifying Smoke, which Improvements are ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES IN WHICH GAS OR VAPOUR IS TO BE SEPARATED from Substances combined therewith or Held in Suspension therein,” com- 10 rounicated to me from abroad by Joseph Bourgeois and Jules Mathieu, both of 33, Boulevart Saint Martin, Paris, France, to be as follows ;— The principle object of this Invention is to purify or separate smoke from, soot or fuliginous matters; it is also applicable to other purposes in which gas or vapour is to be separated from solids combined therewith, or matters held 15 in suspension thereby the purification or separation being so effected that the soot or other matters expelled from the smoke, gas, or vapour, may be usefully applied. The Invention consists in the employment and construction of apparatus in which the smoke, gas, or vapour is led into a passage or chamber,, and caused 20 to pass through it in a downward direction* and while descending it is sub¬ jected to the action of water or other liquid, or of a solid substance, such water, liquid, or solid being introduced in showers or jets, or in a finely divided condition, and caused to drop or fall through the passage or chamber so as to pass in a downward direction through the smoke, gas, or vapour therein, at