Specification of Robert Carr and William Crossby : consuming smoke in furnaces.

  • Carr, Robert.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Specification of Robert Carr and William Crossby : consuming smoke in furnaces. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1854 .N° 1786. Consuming Smoke in Furnaces. (This Invention received Provisional Protection, but notice to proceed with the application for Letters Patent was not given within the time prescribed by the Act.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Robert Carr and William Crossby at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 16th August 1854. We, Robert Carr, Chemist, Shrewsbury Road, and William Crossby, 5 Miller, Division Street, both of Sheffield, in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Burning or Consuming Smoke in Furnaces and Fires for Engine Boilers ” to be as follows:— By the use of a revolving fan,fixed in a flue composed of metalic pipes or brick, by which the whole volume of smoke and heat is conducted from the 10 fire in a hot temperature into the fire again and again, until the whole of the smoke is entirely consumed. By this method a sufficient quantity of air is drawn into the fire to cause the ignition of the smoke and the fire to burn briskly, while the whole of the heat is continuously applied to the purposes for which it is desired, and a large amount of fuel will be saved. Thus the smoke 15 nuisance will be compleatly removed and prevented. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1855.