Improvements in water-heating, distilling and sterilizing apparatus / [James McCartney].

  • McCartney, James.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Improvements in water-heating, distilling and sterilizing apparatus / [James McCartney]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N° 12,034 A.D. 1900 Date of Application, 3rd July, 1900—Accepted, 18th Aug., 1900 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Water-heating*, Distilling and Sterilizing Apparatus. I, Henry Haring ton Leigh, Assoc. M.Inst.C.E., Eel. Cli. Inst. P.A., practis¬ ing as Phillips and Leigli, of Ao 22, Southampton .Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the Administrative County oi London, Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature ol this invention (a communication from James McCartney 5 of 40-34, Seventeenth Street, City and County of San Francisco, United States of America), and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement : — '4 his invention relates to improvements in water heating, distilling and steri¬ lizing* apparatus and it consists primarily in the construction oi a heating 10 chamber by which the water is admitted successively to distinct thin and wide¬ spread chambers extended across a line of travel oi the heat of combustion, to present the water to the same in very thin sheets; further in the construction whereby the water is introduced into the said chambers on one side of the center thereof and drawn from the other side, thereby compelling the water 15 to travel over the largest area of the said chambers; it further consists in the construction of a containing* casing to serve as an adjunct to the heater, while serving as a water jacket to maintain the said casing at a pre-determined tem¬ perature and to utilize by absorption the heat which must otherwise be radiated itom the said casing, together with regulating devices whereby the flow of water *>() into and through the said casing may be altered to reduce or increase the quan¬ tity of water ho wing through the said casing, and thereby the resultant heat of die said casing. It further consists in providing suitably connected distilling apparatus with the said heater, so constructed and arranged that the steam generated within the said heater is carried over and condensed in a water !>,) receptacle through which the water passing to the heater is passed and by absorb¬ ing the heat of the steam to condense the same, thereby conserving the heat needed for the operation of distilling. It further consists in the arrangement of two connected cooling receptacles adapted to receive the distilled water successively; that is to say, the one from the other whereby the distilled water 30 may be drawn from the reservoirs at different temperatures; it further consists in the arrangement of a sterilizing chamber or chambers in which tools to be sterilized may be placed, together with suitable valves for admitting the steam directly to the sterilizing chamber; it further consists in connecting one of the said cooling tanks directly with the heating chamber by means of a pipe having 35 a valve whereby the steam may be directly introduced into the cooling chamber to raise the temperature of the water contained therein; it further consists in a novel construction in the arrangement of the heating stove whereby a portion only of the surface of the stove may be utilized. In the drawings; 40 Figure 1 is a vertical section of the heater shown in conjunction with a reser¬ voir or intermediate tank used in conjunction with hot water house heating plants, when thus utilized the pipes, 20, and 5, are utilized respectively as outgoing and [Price 8d.~]