Specification of William Arena Martin : consuming smoke and feeding furnaces.

  • Martin, William Arena.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Specification of William Arena Martin : consuming smoke and feeding furnaces. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Consuming Smoke and Feeding Furnaces, LETTERS PATENT to William Arena Martin, of 90, Cannon Street, in the City of London, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of “ Improvements in Apparatus for Consuming Smoke, Promoting Combustion, and Feeding Furnaces with Fuel.” Sealed the 12th July 1867, and dated the 22nd January 1867. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Arena Martin at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 22nd January 1867. I, William Arena Martin, of 90, Cannon Street, in the City of London, 5 Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Im¬ provements in Apparatus for Consuming Smoke, Promoting Combustion, and Feeding Furnaces with Fuel,” to be as follows:— The Invention has for its objects improvements in the means of consuming smoke and of effecting combustion in the furnaces of steam boilers, as also 10 improvements in the means of supplying furnaces with fuel; for these pur¬ poses I employ a fire-door having a horizontal axle at the top, the said horizontal axle being supported by a bearing at each side on the side plates herein-after mentioned. By applying a lever to the said horizontle axle and working it the fire-door will open either inward or outward, and will thus