Specification of Owen Bowen and Ambrose Miller : decomposing noxious gases.

  • Bowen, Owen.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Specification of Owen Bowen and Ambrose Miller : decomposing noxious gases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bowen 8f Miller's Improved Mode of Decomposing Noxious Gases. we, the said Owen Bowen and Ambrose Miller, our executors, admi- nistrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, 5 within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ An Improved Mode of or Process and Apparatus for Destroying or Decomposing the Noxious Gases GIVEN OFF FROM KlLNS, DRYING FLOORS, AND OTHER PLACES OR MANUFACTURES/5 upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Owen Bowen and 10 Ambrose Miller, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to he performed, and cause the same to he filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months 15 next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Owen Bowen, on behalf of myself and of the said Ambrose Miller, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to he performed, to ho particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, 20 reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):—• The object of our Invention is to absorb, neutralize, decompose, destroy, or otherwise render innocuous the noxious gases, vapours, or smells arising from various chemical manufactures or processes in the 25 industrial arts, such as the manufacture of cement and various chemical substances, the roasting of ores, or other processes in which condensable gases are evolved, the main object of the Invention being to prevent such processes or manufactures from becoming a nuisance to the surrounding neighborhood. 80 As an example of our improved mode of dealing with these noxious gases or vapours we will explain our Invention as applied to a kiln for burning cement, and in the accompanying Drawing Pig. 1 is a plan view; and Pig. 2, a longitudinal vertical section of the apparatus and appliances whereby the gases evolved from a kiln of this description are 35 dealt with. The kiln A in which the cement is burned is of the ordinary con¬ struction, but the Invention may be adapted to any suitable kiln,