US97737A - Improvement in boiler-feed water-heaters - Google Patents

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stent @wie HENRY NEW ALBANY, INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 97,737, datedDccemlie-r, 1869.

`:mira-ao,vrai/Iriart- 1N` Bomen-FEED WATER-ananas.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

l'o all whom it may concern! Be it known that I, HENRY XVIGLEY, of New Albany, in the county of Floyd, and in the State of Indiana, have invented certain ,new and i useful` Improvements in Heating andPurifyng Water, Src.; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and

l exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in the coustruction and arrangement of a device for heatingand purifying water before it passes to the stea-m-boilei 's.

lhe great trouble with boilers is the danger of mnd and sediment accumulating therein, which, in turn,

causes thegboiler easily to burn out. My invention will obviate the difliculty` heretofore presenting itself in this respect. v

In order to enable Aothers skilled in the art to which my` invention appertains, to make and use the same, 1 will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the Vannexed draw-ings, which form Y a part of this specification, and in which-- Figure 1 isV a ground section;

Figure 2, a longitudinal vertical section; and

Figure 3, a vertical cross-section.

A represents a cylindricll reservoir, made of boileriron, its size to be governed by the number and size ef the boilers, in cqnnectionwith which it is to be used.

Inside` of `the reservoir A, is placed a smaller reservoir, B, of lialtlcylindrical form, open at the top, and extending from eud'to end ofthe outer reservoir.

i The reservoir rests on perforated plates or supports C C at each end. i

Along the upper edges of the inner reservoir B, ex#

` tend ianges a a, which point downward, as shown in fig. 3, and ou these tianges rests a perforated V-shaped cap, or'cover, D, said cap extending the whole length of the reservoir. i

A .winding or tortuous pipe, E, leads from the outside of the outer reservoir A, tlnouglrthe cap D, into the inner reservoir opening'at the rear end of the same.

"llle outer reservoirA is provided with severalinlets and outletsLL-one, F, on the upper side, near the front end; one, G, on each side, about the centre; and

' one, H, about the centre of the bottom. y

There is also an outlet, I, from the rear end of the bottom of the inner reservoir B, which out-let passes through the outer reservoir A:

The object and uses of. all these will be hereinafter fully explained.

The object of the apparatus being to cleansejand purify the water from the mud and' sediment in it, so as to make steam without the mud and sediment getting into the boilers and caking therein, and rendering the boilers Vliable to burn lout and explode, its practical operations depend, of course, on having the boilers `irsttlled, andthe machinery belonging thereto in operation, especially the doctorf orpumpt-hat supplies lthe water. Then the fresh water from the doctorf or pump enters, by pipe E,into the reservoir B, and the steam from a pipe connecting with the boilers en-I 'ters'by pipe F, and the action of the steam upon the 'water thus admitted settles the mud andsediment, and

impurities of all kinds, in the bottoni ofthe inner `res-l ervoir B.

In the meanwhile, the purified water is continually flowing into the boilers from pipes G G.

The pipe I is a valve attached to the inside of the bottom of the reservoir, and to' which is attached a stop-cock, so that it can be opened whenever desired, and the mud and sediment accumulated in the reservoir by the action of the steam thereon will then be expelled frolnthe reservoir. It is the peculiar shape of the reservoir which causes thewater, by the action of the steam thereon, to precipitate the mud and sediment in the bottom. f

lhe centre bottom-pipe H is to drain the outside shell or heater A.

Having thus fully described my invention,

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters IJatent, is i 1. A reservoir constructed as, described, and counected with the boiler, substantially as herein set fort-h.

2. VThe combination of the outer reservoir A,'inn`er reservoirB, provided' with flanges a a, and V-shaped pertbrated cap D, tortuous pipe E, inlet F, and outlets G, H, and I, all substantially as herein set forth.`

In testimony that I claim the foregoing invention, I have hereunto setmy hand, this 8th day of January, 1869.

, i HENRY VVIGLEY. Witnesses:

` 1t. M. WEIR,

G. H. DE'VoL.

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