US1052988A

US1052988A - Condenser and feed-water heater.

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Publication number: US1052988A
Application number: US70349312A
Authority: US
Inventors: Einar Winholt
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1912-06-13
Filing date: 1912-06-13
Publication date: 1913-02-11
Anticipated expiration: 1930-02-11

Description

E. WINHOLT.

CONDENSER'AND FEED WATER HEATER.

APPLIQATION FILED JUNE 13. 1912.

' Y Patented Feb. 11, 1913.

INVENIQH [I MM/107? entrain STATEd Parana ora ion,

EINA'B WINHDLT, or ALPHA, ILLINOIS.

CONDENSER AND FEED-WATER HEATER.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EINAR TVINHOLT, a subject of the Kingdom of Denmark, resid- 'ing at-Alpha, in the county of Henry and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Condensers and Feed-Water Heaters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to combined condensers and feed water heaters and has for its object to provide an improved condenser which is adapted to be connected to the exhaust pipe ot-a steam engine for the purpose of utilizing the escaping steam to heat the feed water.

Further objects and advantages of my invention will be apparent as the description proceeds.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation partly in section. Fig. 2 is a top plan view partly broken away.

Referring more specifically to the drawings 5 represents a condenser comprising a top 6 and bottom 7 having peripheral flanges 8 and 9 respectively. A plurality of vertically arranged angle irons or plates 10. ex tend between the top and bottom of the condenser and are connected at their lower ends to bottom by bolts or other suitable fastening means 11 passing through flanges 12. These angle plates are preferably arranged in the form of two concentric circles, each of the plates of the outer circle being secured to two of the lates of the inner circle by means of spacing bolts 13. The plates of each circle overlap and are oppositely disposed with respect to the plates of the other circle, thus the vertical spaces 14 between the adjacent plates are more" or less 0bstructed for a purpose hereinafter described.

15 designates the exhaust pipe ofa steam engine v(not shown) projecting through the bottom of the condenser, and discharging centrally into the partially inclosed' space within the concentric circles of angle plates 10.

Cold water is fed to the condenser by means of a pipe 16 connected at one end toa suitable source of supply (not shown) and Specification of Letters Eatent. Patented Feb. 11, 1913. Application filed June 13, 1912.

Serial No. 703,493;

at the other end to the'up'per end of a perforated pipe 17 the lower closed end of which is provided with a conical shaped deflector 18.

In operation the exhaust steam from the engine entering the condenser comes in contact with the air cooled angle plates 10,

condenses and drops down upon the bottom 7 and from there flows through pipe 19 into the feed water tank for y the engine (not shown) any surplusage escaping through overflow pipe 20. Simultaneously with the operation just described the valve 21 in pipe 16 is automatically or otherwise operated to admit cold water to the perforated pipe 17. The cold water spouts radially from the perforated pipe as will be readily understood, cooling the steam and condensing plates 10 by contact therewith and consequently great-1y facilitates condensation.

From the foregoing it will be apparent jacent plates of a circle being spaced apart,

means connecting the top of the condenser with a supply of cold water, means connecting the bottom of thccondenser with the exhaust pipe of a'stcam engine, and means connecting said bottom with a feed water tank.

2. ln :1 device of the character described, a condenser having a top and bottom and open sides, plates extending between said top and bottom, said plates having staggered air spaces therebetween, pipe connections between the bottom of the condenser and the exhaust pipe of a steam engine and with a In testimony whereof I aifix my signature feed water tank,& perforated pipe having its in presence of two witnesses, upper end extending through the top of the condenser and at its lower end provided EINAR WINHOLT' with a conical deflector plate, and means for Witnesses:

introducing cold Water into said perforated H. 'S. BRINK,

pipe. W. T. S. HENDERSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

\ 'Washington,]). 0.