Specification of Henry James Ditmars : apparatus for consuming smoke.

  • Ditmars, Henry James.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Specification of Henry James Ditmars : apparatus for consuming smoke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    < \^/VW^ \yx/ VTy'N/V'Xy V^V^OA^/VVA^V A.D..1868, 7 tli April. N° 1166. Apparatus for Consuming Smoke. LETTERS PATENT to Henry Janies Ditmars, of 4, Pancras Lane, in the City of London, for the Invention of “ Improvements in Apparatus for the Consumption of Smoke.”—A communication from abroad by Augustus Wilhelms and Johannes Marinus Van der Made, both of Dordrecht, Netherlands.^ Sealed the 2nd October 1868, and dated the 7th April 1868.. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry James Ditmars at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th April 1868. |k r I, Henley James Ditmaes, of 4, Pancras Lane, in the City of London, 5 do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in Apparatus for the Consumption of Smoke,” to be as follows:— This Invention relates to the construction of a chimney adapted either to fixed, locomotive, steamboat, or other furnaces or fire-places, kilns or ovens, and consists in attaching to the end of the flue a pipe 10 which connects the same to a chamber having therein a metallic double cone which is retained in position by suitable supports. This chamber with the contents just described the inventor designates a