Specification of Arthur Woolf : steam and other boilers.

  • Woolf, Arthur.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Arthur Woolf : steam and other boilers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Woolfs Improved Apparatus for Converting Water, §c. into Steam. IN USE FROM A GIVEN QUANTINY OF ANY VEGETABLE OR OTHER SUBSTANCE FROM WHICH Extracts are or may be made, without the Danger of Burning, Scorching, or Singeing such Vegetable or other Substances, and applicable to various other Processes in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Arthur Woolf, by an instrument in writing under my hand and 5 seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large 10 appear. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Arthur Woolf, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are described and ascer¬ tained in manner and form following, and in the Drawings hereunto annexed, 15 that is to say :— My new or improved apparatus doth consist, first, of two or more cylindrical vessels properly connected together, and so disposed as to constitute a strong and fit receptacle for water or any other fluid intended to be converted into steam, whether at the usual heats or at temperatures and under pressures uncommonly 20 high, and also to present an extensive portion of convex surface to the current of the flame or heated air or vapor from a fire. Secondly, of certain other cylindrical parts or receptacles placed above the said first-mentioned cylinders, and properly connected therewith for the purposes of containing water and steam, and for the reception, transmission, and useful application of the steam 25 generated from the heated water or other fluid. And, thirdly, of a furnace so adapted to the cylindrical parts just mentioned as to expose the greater part of the surface of all and each of them, or as much of the said surface as may be convenient or desirable, to the direct action of the fire or heated air and vapour. And in order that the construction, disposition, application, and 30 advantages of this my said apparatus may be more fully and clearly under¬ stood, I do proceed to exhibit by Drawings and descriptions some of the precise methods of carrying the same into practice and effect. Fig. 1 represents a boiler, made of cast iron or any other fit material, consisting of eight tubes marked a, which have a communication with each other and with the cylinder A 35 placed above them, by means of connecting cylinders or tubes attached to the respective parts in a good and workmanlike manner: see 5, Fig. 2, which exhibits an end view of the apparatus. Fig. 3 shews a side view, and exhibits the manner in which the fire is made to act upon it; A being the main cylinder,