US1033134A - Sectional smoke-burner. - Google Patents

Description

R. 0. WADE SEGTIONAL SMOKE BURNER.

- APPLICATION F-ILED APB.20, 1911.

1,033,1 34. Patented "July 23, 1912.

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- Attorney s R. 0. WADE. SEGTIONAL SMOKE BURNBR. APPLICATION FILED APR. 20, 1911.

1,033,1 34:. Patented J l 23, 1912.

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Witnesses Inventor,

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ROBERT C. WADE, F MALDEN, MISSOURI.

snorionsn SMOKE-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application'filed April 20, 1911. Serial No. 622,336.

To all whom it mayooncem:

Be it-known that I, ROBERT C. WADE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Malden, in the county of Dunk'lin and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Sectional Smoke-Burner, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

It is the object of the present invention to provide a device adapted to be mounted in a furnace of standard construction, to effect a thorough consuming'of. the smoke generated in such furnace.

Specifically, it is the object of the inven tion to provide a device of the character above mentioned, which will divide the volume of smoke, and introduce into the divided volume of smoke, quantities of heated air, thereby effecting a thorough consuming of the smoke, thus effecting the double end 'of preventing the delivery into the atmosphere,of a dense volume of smoke, and of consuming, to a useful purpose, the combustible material carried in suspension in the smoke.

Vith the foregoing 'and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention. In the accompanying drawings,. l igu re 1 IS a longitudinal sectionfFig. 2 18 a transverse section upon the line A-B of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3. is a transverse section on the line CD of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a perspective of one of the draft boxes.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 designates I generally, a furnace of any desired shape and proportions.

The numeral 2 designates the grate of the furnace, the numeral 3 denotes the stoke door, and the numeral 4 denotes the ash door.

Projecting forwardly from the rear wall of he. furnace 1, is a platform 5; Rising from the grate 2, and terminating at its upper edge in the vicinity of the platform 5, is a partition 6f Supported upon the platform 5 and above the partition 6, are

a: plurality of spaced boxes, denoted by the numerals 7 8, 9, and 10, the boxes being of identical construction. The top member 11 which is superposed upon the box10, dif

fers slightly in constructionfrom theboxes proper, and this member 11 will be described in detail hereinafter. Each of-the boxes, then,. comprises a bottom 12, side walls 14, and end walls ]5,whieh extend but part way across the ends of the box. Each box further includes a top plate 16 and an: other top plate 17 the top plate 17 being broader than the top plate. 16, and being disposed adjacent the rear of the furnace. PrO ecting inwardly from the ends of'the walls .15, are longitudinally extended'defiectors 18, the ends of which are spaced apart. Extended transversely of the box, and terminally uni-ted with the side walls 14:, is a transverse partition 19, located between the free ends of the deflectors 18. Each box supports near its ends and at the side of the furnace an I beam 20. Each box sup orts, in its intermediate portion, and aline vet- Patented July 23, 1912. f

tically with the transverse partition 19, am V other I beam 21. Thus, the sevenal superposed boxes are supported one upon the other.

Applied to the faces of the side walls of the furnace 1, are upright flues 22, the;upper ends of which'are closed, the lower'ends of the fines 22 being open. In the sidewalls of the furnace 1, at the bottom of the flues 22, there are openings 23. The member 11 forms the uppermost portion of the struc- 1 ture, and is provided with a raised, longi' portion of the tudi'nal rib 25. The stack structure is shown at 26.

In operation, the products of combustion 1 pass between the boxes, andout' of the stack 26. The air enters the flues- 22 at their lower ends, and passes into the ends of, the

.95 boxes, the air being raised in tem erature,

to a high point, by reason of the act that I the products of combustion pass'betwe'en the boxes andheat'the bottoms 12 thereof. The

air encounters the deflectors 18 and the par-1 titions 19 successively, and finally passes through the opening between the top plates 16 and 17, to mingle with the products of combustion. By this operation, 'heated air will be supplied to the products of'combustion, during the passage between the boxes,

this air introduced from the exterior of'the furnace, being well supplied with oxygen.

Thus, a thorough combustion of the distended particles in the smoke is effected, the smoke being thus burned clean, and a waste of fuel being avoided.

door 30.

n The )latform 5, obviously tends to prevent-"a raft beneath the boxes, into the stack 26, the platform 5 compelling the products of combustion topass between the boxes, as hcreinbefore described. The door denoted by the numeral 31, serves as a clean-out for that portion of the structure which is to the rear of the boxes. The partition (3 prevents the' fire which is built through the 'door 30 from being choked by ashes from the tire which is tO'tlllC front of the partition 6. j

The boxes preferably, although not necessarily, are fashioned from cast iron, and it will be seen that the constructimi of the entire device is such, that these boxes may readily expand and contract, without endangering a breakage of any of them. The mounting of the boxes upon the platform 5, obviously, is such that the platform in no Wise interferes with the transverse expansion of the boxes. I

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is r V 1. In a device of the class described, a furnace having openings in its side walls, fiues communicating with the openings at their lower ends; superposed, spaced boxes located Within the furnace and forming smoke passage-ways thcrebetween,- said boxes having openings in their end walls communicating with the tines, each box being closed at its bottom andalong its sides and open at its top only, there being deflectors in the boxes, adapted to secure a thorough admixture of the air passing inwardly into the boxes, through the lines, with the smoke which passes between the boxes.

2. In a device of the class described, a furnace; a grate therein; a partition disposed transversely of the furnace above the grate and dividing the fire upon the grate a platform horizontally disposed in the furauxiliary stoke door in the furnace, to the rear of the partition, permitting the'building of a separate tire to the rear of the partition; other boxes superposed upon the first named box, all of the boxes being closed at the bottom and open at, the top, the boxes being spaced apart to form smoke passageways therehctwce-n; and means for supplying air through the ends of the boxes, to mix with the smoke which passes between the boxes from in front of the partition.

3. In a device of the class described, a furnace provided with upright'flucs upon its sides, the thus being open at the bottom; superposed boxes supported within the furnace and spaced to form smoke passages therebctiwen, each boxhaving openings in opposite ends (aamnunimiting with theilucs; each box having inwardly projecting, longitudinal deflectors located adjacent the openings in the said boxes a transverse par tition located between the ends of the dcfleotors; the boxes being closed at their hot toms and at their sides, each box having top plates spaced apart adjacent the longitudinal center of the-box, between which plates air is fed into the smoke passages. V

4. As an article of manufacture, a box adapted to be employed in theconstruction of a smoke consumer, the said box consisting of a bottom, side walls, top plates extended inwardly from the side walls and spaced apart adjacent the longitudinal center of the box, end walls extended 'iartway across the ends of the box, deflectors located at the ends of the end walls, and projecting inwardly into the box; and a transverse partition uniting the side walls, and located between. the inner ends of the deflectors.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aiiixe'd my signature in the presence of two witnesses. ROBERT C. VADE.

V /itnesses CHAS. WV. Corninmo JLE. SMrrII.

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