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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    o. A.D. 1865.—N° 1001. Provisional Specification. Henry s Improvements in Purifying SmoJce. a greater velocity of descent than such smoke, gas, or vapour, from which in its descent it separates or expels the soot or other solid matters combined therewith, or substances held in suspension therein, and falls with the sub¬ stances so separated or expelled into a receiver at the bottom of the passage or chamber. The soot or other substances so expelled may be afterwards 5 separated from the water or other agent in order to be usefully applied. For furnace smoke the height of purifying or separating passage recommended in many cases is four metres, say 12 feet to 12 feet 6 inches (English). 9 Description op the Drawing. Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section, in which A is a furnace, from 10 which the smoke passes in the direction of the arrows through a flue B, down a passage C, and along a flue D into a chimney E. While the smoke is passing down the passage C, cold water is injected from a tank F by a pipef through a perforated plate G, which divides it into fine jets or showers which descend the chamber C through the smoke therein, but at greater velocity, 15 and carry off the soot into the receiver H. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1865.