Specification of Charles Frederick Stansbury : furnaces of locomotive and other steam boilers.

  • Stansbury, Charles Frederick.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Specification of Charles Frederick Stansbury : furnaces of locomotive and other steam boilers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r A.D. 1854 .N° 1717. Furnaces of Locomotive and other Steam Boilers. LETTERS PATENT to Charles Frederick Stansbury, of the firm of Nourse & Co., American and General Patent Agents, of No. 17, Cornhill, London, for the Invention of “ Improvements in Locomotive and Steam Boiler Furnaces.” — A communication from Jonathan Amory and William Parrott, both of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts and United States of America. Sealed the 2nd February 1855, and dated the 5th August 1854. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Frederick Stans¬ bury at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th August 1854. I, Charles Frederick Stansbury, of the firm of Nourse & Co., American' 5 & General Patent Agents, of No. 17, Cornhill, London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in Locomotive and Steam . ■ . Boiler Furnaces,” a communication from Jonathan Amory & William Parrott, both of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, and United States of America, to be as follows :— 10 The object of these improvements is to economize fuel and to prevent the formation of smoke by perfecting the combustion which takes place in the furnace. This object it is proposed to effect by two means; one, the supplying of pure heated air to the fire, by means of a pipe passing from the external air into the V . *. V *