US553079A

US553079A - Spark-arrester

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Publication number: US553079A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-01-14
Anticipated expiration: 1913-01-14

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E. J. SOLOMON. SPARK ARRBSTER. No. 553,079. Patented Jan. 14, 1896.

J a) 3 D22 3 2 3 2 3 2 2 95) WITNESSES: M/VENTOH A TTOHNE VS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR J. SOLOMON, OF OARLINVILLE, ILLINOIS.

SPARK-ARRESTER.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,079, dated January 14, 1896. Application filed July 30, 1895. Serial No. 557,604. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR J. SOLOMON, of Carlinville, in the county of Macoupin and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Sparlelkrrester, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and eihcient device for attachment to a locomotive, for preventing the escape to the smoke-stack of sparks and cinders, while permitting of the free escape of the products of combustion.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification,

in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a sectional end elevation of a locomotive-boiler, showing the application of my improvement; andFigfiQ is a longitudinal section of the attachment,

The locomotive-boiler A is provided with a smoke-box B, eXhaust-nozzle-O,- and smokestack D of usual description. To the exhaustnozzle Gis fitted the lower end of the tube E,

which in the present case is conical in form.

The tube E may be secured to the nozzle in any convenient way. I haveshown a simple and practical device for this purpose, which consists of a ring a fitted to the tube, and setscrews b passing through the ring and the tube and bearing upon the sides of the exhaust-nozzle. The upper and large end of the tube E fits into thelower end of the smokestack D, and in the sides of the tube E are made U-shaped slits c, leaving a tongue of metal cl, which in each case is pressed inwardly, as shown in Fig. 2, thereby leaving sufficient space between the tongue and the wall of the tube for the escape of the products of combustion. The slits c are in all sides of the tube E, and the combined area of all of the openings made by pressing in the tongues cl is sufficient for the ready escape of all the products of combustion.

The exhaust in passing through the tube E creates a draft in the well-known manner and draws all the products of combustion to the tube E, through which the gaseous portions escape to the smoke-stack, while the solid portions, striking the tongues 61, are thrown back into the smoke-box B, where they remain until the smoke-box is cleaned.

The tube E may be made of any form to adapt itto the particuiar'locomotive to which my improvement is applied, but the conical form here shown will be found applicable in most cases. It may also be made of any suitable material, such as sheet-iron, steel or cop per.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A spark arrcster, consisting in a tube having a series of elongated openings and a tongue projecting downwardly and inwardly from the upper edge of every opening, sub stantially as set forth.

2. A spark arrests-r, comprising a tapering tube formed with a series of elongated openings and a tongue projecting from the upper edge of every opening inwardly and downwardly toward the lower smaller end of the tube, substantially as described.

EDGAR J. SOLOMON. Witnesses JOHN WEITEEMEIE, JAMES K. FURBER.