US104650A

US104650A - Improvement in steam water-elevator

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Publication number: US104650A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1870-06-21
Anticipated expiration: 1887-06-21

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Letters Patent No. 104,650, dated .fune 21, 1870.

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IMPROVEMENT IN STEAM WATER-ELEVATOR.

The Schedule referred tio in these letters Patent and making part of the same.

Be it'known` that I, CHARLES Roenes, of Allegheny City, in .the county lof Alleghenyy and State of Pennsylvania, have invented` a new and valuable Im provenient in Steam IVater-Elevatrs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operationof the r rangement of a circular 'swell or chamber in the stock,

within which is a vhollow diaphragm inclosing the steam-chamber, incased in brimstone orother similar non-conducting subst-anceH'md provided with jets designed to impart, by the `action of the steam issuing therefrom, aiswift rotary motion to the water in the swell -of the stocl,tliei-eby causing it to rise in the stock by centrifugal force.

l The letter A ofthe drawing designates the stock or central tube through whicl1`.the wat'er rises.

B, the expansion thereof,jibrming the water-chamber b, which is made in the form of a double conoid or U represents the inner diaphragm, similar in form to the outer case B, but more attened or oblate. This hollow diaphragm or case forms the inner wall of the waterchamber, and is so arranged that the distance between the "walls of t-hechamber gradually (liminishes, both above and below, as it approaches the central ory widest part of the case B.

D D represent curved partitions or dividing-plates, placed spirally inthe upper half of the water-chamber, and extending from the circumference of the diaphragm` toward-the center of the upper surface thereof.

The hollow diaphragm is secured'to the steam-pipe E, which passes down within it to the steam-chamber.

j On the under side of the diaphragm, and arranged about theceuter thereof, are the spiral jets a, small pipes communicating with the steam-chamber within -the diaphragm, and so formed that they will deliver the steam into the water-chamber at orneagrvit's lowest point, and will cause it' to strike the water therein at au angle of about forty-five degrees from the radius of the circle in which the jets are placed.

Within the hollow diaphragm ist-he steam-chamber H, receiving the steam from the generator through the pipe E, and deliveringit in jets against the body of water inthe chamber b.

For the prevention 'of condensation, a jacket, z, of

brimstone, or other suitable non-conducting material,

is arranged to envelope the steam-chamber within the diaphragm.

The lower portion of the steam-pipe E, where it is in contact with the water, is covered with similar non conducting material, for the same purpose.

rlhe operation of my invention is as follows:

'lhe lower portion ofthe stock, including the chamber b, orthe lower part of it, is placed in the water. Steam, having been let on from the generator, issues from the mouths of the pipes a in jets of great force, causing a rotary movement of the water in the chamber. A centrifugal movement of the particles of water follows, which is-enhanced by the fact that the waterchamber tapers upward and outward from the position ofthe steam-jets. Therefore the particles of water rise into the upper portion of the chamber b, where'they are guided gradually but rapidly to the' center by the spiral wings or plates D, and the water,consequently, rises inthe main pipe A.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Pateut,is-- Y 1. In the main pipe of a steam water-elevator, the water-chamber b, in combination with the double convex diaphragm C,v provided, with the curved guideplates I) on its upper surface, the spiral jets a arranged to give a centrifugal movement to the water, and the steam-chamber H enveloped with brimstone or other non-comlucting substance, as specified.` l

2. The steam water-elevator herein described, wherein the elevation of the water is eected by theoentrif- Augal movement thereof, produced by the action of jets of steam in a water-chamber, b, substantially as specied.

In testimony, that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two wit-