Specification of Charles James Richardson : chimneys or flues.

  • Richardson, Charles James.
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Charles James Richardson : chimneys or flues. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 Richardsons Apparatus for Preventing Down Draught, §c.,in Chimneys or Flues. me, the said Charles James Richardson Her special licence that I, the said Charles James Richardson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I the said Charles James Richardson, my executors, admi¬ nistrators, and assigns should at any time agree with, and no others, from 5 time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in Apparatus to be applied to Chimneys or Flues or Buildings for Preventing Down Draught or Beturn Smoke, for 10 their Insuring Upward Ventilation, and for Reducing the Quantity of Smoke, or the Blacks from the Smoke passing into the Atmosphere,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles James Richardson, my executors, or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my or their or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and 15 ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles James Richardson, do hereby 20 declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say :— The first part of my Invention is for preventing down draught or return 25 smoke in flues; the second is for securing a steady constant upward ventilation in all the flues of a building, when only a small number of fires communi¬ cating with the flues are burning ; and the third is for reducing the quantity of dense smoke or blacks from the smoke passing into the atmosphere. My Invention is thus composed of three parts or portions, all or any twTo of which 30 can be used together, and each of which can be used alone for its separate purposes. The contrivance for the prevention of down draught, I call the “ wind capthat for securing ventilation the “ iron stack flueand that for reducing the quantity of dense smoke or blacks passing into the atmosphere the “ rain vase.” The iron stack flue is thus formed:—The upper part of 35 the flue or flues for a length of about 15 or 20 feet is formed of tubing, by preference of iron, in square or oblong sections ; each tube at its base is of the size of the flue in which it is placed, the tube gathers it up to a reduced size, shape, or form, and passes it in a splayed direction to the next flue, to which a similar tube is applied ; the two flues, side by side, are then taken up in a