Specification of Pierre Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau : apparatus and arrangements for conducting, collecting, and purifying the smoke arising from public and private dwellings.

  • Fontaine, Pierre Armand Moreau, comte de.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Pierre Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau : apparatus and arrangements for conducting, collecting, and purifying the smoke arising from public and private dwellings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    De Fontaine Moreau's Impts. in Conducting, Consuming, Qc., SmoJce. in the great main channel under the main chimnies. Those ventilators would have a power which could be raised to ten horse power; they are put in motion by the steam engine, and their transmission of movement is easily understood by referring to Figures 2 and 5 of the Drawing IV. Construction of the Street Conduct Pipes and of the Main Chimney. 5 Figure 1 in Drawing III. shows a complete front view of the main draught chimney, and Figure 2 is a sectional elevation of the same through its main axis, and represents the sections of different elevations; the ventilating apparatus and that of the main fire-place, the several stories or platforms of the upper buildings, as well as several recesses made in the thickness of the 10 wall, can be made use of for establishing an observatory, a station for night guards, and for setting alarm bells, in case of fire in any part of the town. The Figures 3, 4, and 5 of the same Drawing represent different sections of Figures 1 and 2. In Drawing IV., Figure 2 is a sectional elevation drawn through the 15 middle of Figure 4, which last Figure represents a main draught chimney having a gothic form. Figure 1 represents the main canal for gathering all the smoke in the condensation canal and draught ventilators; the Figure 2 represents the level plan of the building with ground; and Figure 3 is the plan of a story or platform, set at about one hundred feet from the ground, 20 and on which the fires are kept. Figure 1, Drawing V., represents a front view of another main draught chimney, and Figure 2 is a sectional elevation through its main axis; the Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are the plans of the different parts of the building. Pipes of eight inches and IT9 feet in diameter, will be placed in the same manner as gas pipes, and will also be made of cold 25 drawn iron with a bituminous coating, which are far superior to cast iron pipes, both on account of their resistance to pressure, for their durability, and the facility of laying them. The cleaning of those pipes will be easily effected by means of a kind of mop, adapted at will, to an iron rod set at convenient distances, of about three hundred and twenty-eight feet, having 30 small reservoirs to receive dust, soot, and condensed waters. The scavengers will descend at fixed times, and at night before the fires of dwellings are light, and by drawing the rod with the mop along the reservoirs will clean them thoroughly, as is represented in Figure 7, Drawing 1, in which A, A, are the recesses for the reception of the soot, water, &c., which are to be taken away 35 by a small trap-door. O, M, is the rod with a mop to cleanse the conduct pipes; these conduct pipes are slightly inclined, as shewn in the Drawing, in order to facilitate the ingress into the recesses, and afford the means of taking away the