Specification of Benjamin Tweedy : apparatus for consuming smoke in furnaces.

  • Tweedy, Benjamin.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Specification of Benjamin Tweedy : apparatus for consuming smoke in furnaces. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Apparatus for Consuming Smoke in Furnaces. (This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Benjamin Tweedy at tbe Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th August 1859. I, Benjamin Tweedy, at present residing at Utrecht, in the Kingdom of 5 the Netherlands, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven¬ tion for “ An Improved Mode of and Apparatus for Consuming Smoke in Loco¬ motive AND OTHER ENGINE FURNACES, WHEREBY COAL CAN BE USED INSTEAD OF Coke,” to be as follows :— An iron plate, of a half round or flat shape, of the length of twenty inches, or 10 any other length to suit different furnaces the Invention may be applied to, to be fixed at the top part of the engine fire-door leading into the fire-box at an angle of 45, or any other angle to suit the different sized fire boxes or furnaces to which the Invention may be applied, by means of which a current of down cast air will be produced, and with the aid of a ventilated or trellaced fire-door 15 the same may be regulated and increased, and this on coming in contact with the smoke will cause the same to descend on the fire, and there be consumed. The following is a description of the Drawing thereof hereto annexed :— No. 1 plan shows a longitudinal section of the fire-box and tubes, together with the apparatus of a locomotive engine; this Invention or improvement is 20 that coal can be used instead of coke, whereby there will be a saving of capital of at least 60 per cent, in fuel, and the smoke be entirely burnt. When the engine is standing the Inventor proposes a blow-off pipe or lock to fit in the chimney, which will consume any smoke that may arise from the