Specification of William Robert Lake : treating noxious gases.

  • Lake, William Robert.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Specification of William Robert Lake : treating noxious gases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Specification, A.D. 1875,—N° 2046. 3 Lake's Improved Apparatus for Treating Noxious Gases. be removed are entirely or partially the products of combustion. I therefore in these instances confine my Invention to the destruction or annihilation of these gases or of their noxious properties. Eor this purpose I first collect the foul gas in a vessel or receptacle, to which 5 if steam or other pressure is not available for the purpose, I connect a fan or other blowing or draught producing apparatus. The aforesaid condensing and purifymg apparatus will not be required, but in some cases it will be necessary to pass the gas or vapour through a vessel containing hydrocarbon or other inflammable substance to render it 10 combustible. The gas or vapour is finally forced by the said fan or blower into a furnace where it is consumed or rendered innocuous. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd December 1875. 15 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, William Robert Lake, of the Pirm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of June, in the year of 20 our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty- eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Robert Lake, Her special licence that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors, adminis¬ trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Robert Lake, 25 my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from 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 “ An Improved 30 Method of and Apparatus for Treating Foul or Noxious Gases and Vapours, to Prevent their Contamination of the Atmosphere, and to Utilize them for various Purposes,” a communication to me from abroad by James Turner, of Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Merchant, upon