Specification of William Louis Earle : apparatus for the combustion of smoke, &c.

  • Earle, William Louis.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Specification of William Louis Earle : apparatus for the combustion of smoke, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 A.D. 1859.—N° 2265. Provisional Specification Earles Improvements in Apparatus for the Combustion of Smoke, <S/c. side through narrow slit-like perforations, while the air ascends from below in films intermediate of the planes of the smoke perforations, and escaping in a direction at right angles, or otherwise, to the ingress, either in the form of films or further subdivided on emerging. According to this arrangement, I find the apparatus may be readily constructed of plates or sheets of refractory material, 5 in which the passages for the films of smoke and air may be readily formed by indentation in the sides, which plates may be placed together while still plastic, and burnt, or they may be burnt and combined afterwards, as required, and adapted for the furnace to which they are to be applied. Instead of carrying both sets of perforations through the apparatus, so that the air and smoke 10 combine only on emerging from the perforations ; I sometimes increase the sectional area of the one series of passages towards the flues or combustion chamber, and admit by numerous transverse perforations the air to pass into the smoke passage, and mix therewith previous to emerging into the combustion chamber, or it may be the smoke that is admitted into the air passages. 15 By all these means I am enabled to supply air in sufficient quantities, & to intimately mix it with the smoke and gases to ensure the desired combustion. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to tlie Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1800.