Specification of William Tucker and William Adams : construction of flues and shafts of furnaces, &c.

  • Tucker, William.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of William Tucker and William Adams : construction of flues and shafts of furnaces, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Construction of Flues and Shafts of Furnaces, &c. {This Invention received Provisional Protection^ hut notice to proceed with the application for Letters Patent was not given within the time prescribed by the Act,) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William' Tucker and William Adams at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 30th March 1854. We, William Tucker, of Old Brompton, and William Adams, of Ken- 5 sington, both in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Preventing the Escape of Fuliginous Smoke from Shafts and Flues ” to be as follows (that is to say):— Our said'Invention has reference to constructing flues and shafts adapted to : furnaces and fire-places of all descriptions, in such manner and in connection 10 with such machinery or apparatus that the smoke passing through the said flues may escape in a state of extreme tenuity, and purified from all fuliginous particles by which the surrounding atmosphere might be contaminated; and the manner in which we propose to carry out the aforesaid objects is as follows:— ' 15 We construct a series of flues or shafts of any convenient number, commu- ' nicating with each other by the upper and lower portions alternately, and under the lower part of each flue, where it communicates with the next, we place a fan wheel or blower, which we cause to revolve by any suitable contrivance, and under each such fan wheel we place a tank, and cause every such tank 20 to be supplied with water from a feed pipe, and furnished with perforations