Apparatus for washing and cleansing air or smoke, also for general ventilating purposes, and for disinfecting or perfuming / [Thomas Green].

  • Green, Thomas.
Date:
1904
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    N 5533 A.D.1903 Date of Application, 10th Mar., 1(J03 Complete Specification Left, 9th Dec,, 1903—Accepted, 21st Jan., 1904 • PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Apparatus for Washing and Cleansing Air or Smoke, also for General Ventilating Purposes, and for Disinfecting or Perfuming. Thomas Green 10 Hunters Hoad Aston Manor Birmingham do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows: — The apparatus consists of a metal, wooden, or earthenware chamber, circular in form, and contains a combined water motor and fan, which is driven by 5 water from the ordinary street mains, or from a storage tank. The air or smoke is rapidly sucked down from the inlet, and is passed through the water spray and over the water seal, to the outlet. All impurities, or solid matter, in the air, or smoke, are caught by the water spray, and dropped into the waste water pan, from which they are taken away by the overflow pipe provided to 1() take away the waste water. For disinfecting or perfuming an absorbent screen of worsted, or similar material, is fitted over the inlet or outlet of the apparatus, and saturated with a liquid disinfectant or perfume, and the air passing through same is impreg*- nated with it, and delivered with great rapidity at the outlet. ]5 Dated this 9th day of March 1903. THOMAS GREEN. u Apparatus for Washing and Cleansing Air or Smoke also for General Ventilating Purposes and for Disinfecting or Perfuming.” 2q I, Thomas Green, of 10, Hunters Road, Aston Manor, in the County of Warwick, Ventilating Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven¬ tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly de¬ scribed and ascertained in and by the following statement: — This invention is an apparatus for washing and cleansing air or smoke, also 25 for general ventilating purposes, and for disinfecting or perfuming, and is designed for use in connection with the ventilating and cleansing of public and private buildings, hospitals, factories, workshops, and the like places where the ventilation of the air and the extraction therefrom of particles in¬ jurious to health is desirable. In the case of hospitals, theatres, and other build- 30 ings, I am enabled by my apparatus to disinfect or perfume at’will, at the same \Price