Specification of Gabriel Lewal : apparatus for consuming smoke, and for heating, warming, and drying.

  • Lewal, Gabriel.
Date:
1864
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Credit: Specification of Gabriel Lewal : apparatus for consuming smoke, and for heating, warming, and drying. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1863, 16th September. N°2266. Apparatus for Consuming Smoke, and for Heating, Warming, and Drying. LETTERS PATENT to Gabriel Lewal, of 5 and 6, Philpot Lane, E.C., London, Engineer, for the Invention of “ Ah Improved Method op and Apparatus for Consuming Smoke, and Heating and Warming Public and other Buildings, and for Drying Purposes generally.” Sealed the 26th February 1864, and dated the 16th September 1863, PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gabriel Lewal at' the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 16th September 1863. I, Gabriel Lewal, of 5 and 6, Philpot Lane, E.C., London, Engineer, do 5 hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Consuming Smoke and Heating and Warming Public and other Buildings, and for Drying Purposes generally,’ to be as follows : This apparatus consists of two boxes placed parallel to each other at suitable distance; the bottom or lower side of each box is left open to admit atmospheric 10 air, which is conveyed to it by pipes or flues communicating with the exterior or any other part of the building ; the top or upper side is pierced with holes in suitable positions, to each of these holes is fixed a vertical pipe or tube of any length and form adapted to the size of the apparatus, these pipes or tubes communicate with and are attached to an air chamber fixed above, from which 15 chamber one or more pipes convey the heated air into other pipes, flues, or