US125883A - Improvement in fire-engines - Google Patents
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- Figure l is a perspective view of the engine with its hose and atomizing apparatus.
- the object of our invention is the more ready and immediate extinction of fire.
- the method now in general use is that in which the water is discharged in a continuous stream from. an
- A is the frame supporting the working parts and connections.
- B is the medium of connecting and communicating power.
- C is the airpump, connecting with the air-receiver D, by the proper pipes and valves.
- E is the line of hose for conducting the air to F, the blast-pipe of the atomizing apparatus. Gis the waterpump, connecting bypipes and valves with H, the water-receiver.
- I is the line of hose conducting water to K, the water-outlet, which is composed of a, an outer cylinder, b, an inner cylinder, open at both ends; and cc, end plates inclosing a Vwater-space between the two cylinders; this water-space communicating directly with the hose I, and with the hollow of the inner cylinder by means of numerous perforations d d, through which the water is forced in fine streams, there meeting the blast of air from the blast-pipe Ii, which is directed so that the blast shall pass directly through the inner open cylinder b, thus atomizing and giving direction to the iiow.
- a fire-engine consisting ⁇ of air and wan ter forcing pumps C and G connecting, by means of tubes, with an atomizin g apparatus,
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UNITED STA-.TES
PA'rEN'r @Erica CLEMENT CLEVELAND, OF NEW YORK, AND YILLIAM CLEVELAND, OF ITHACA, NEW YORK.
IMPROVEMENT IN FIREe-ENGINES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,883, dated April :23, 1872.
SPECIFICATION.
To Aall whom it may concern Be it known that I, CLEMENT CLEVELAND, of the city of New York, and I, WILLIAM C. CLEVELAND, of Ithaca, in Tompkins county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Fire-Engine; and we do hereby decla-re the following to be a full and correct description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon.
Figure l is a perspective view of the engine with its hose and atomizing apparatus.
The object of our inventionis the more ready and immediate extinction of fire. The method now in general use is that in which the water is discharged in a continuous stream from. an
open pipe attached directly to the hose. ByA
when the fire ceases. As water requires so large a quantity of heat for its vaporization it is one of the best, as well as being the most readily attainable mediums for this purpose. TheV greater the amount of surface exposed by a given body of water to the source of heat the greater will be the amount of vaporization, and, consequently, the greater will be the reduction of temperature at the source of heat. Steam has little effect in quenching re, as it has already received its heat of vaporization; but, if water, still in the liquid state, can be presented to the tire in a very finely-divided condition, as in a dense cloud of mist or spray, the amount of surface displayed will be the greatest possible, the amount of heat received the greatest possible, and thus will be produced the greatest possible reduction of temperature, quickly extinguishing the fire. Our method is to present the water to the re in this finelydivided or atomized condition.
To accomplish this purpose we connect our source of power with a pump forcing water into a receiver, technically called an air-chamber,7 in which the air acts as an elastic cushion, causing a uniform flow of water, as in all ordinary fire-engines. In addition and combination with this we employ another pump for forcing air into a receiver, there condensing it and developing an elastic force. From the wa ter-receiver the water is conducted by hose, as in ordinary .reengines The condensed air is conducted in its own proper hose. These lines of hose are united to an atomizing apparatus, and by the combined effect of the air and water a cloud of atomized water is discharged from the outlet.
To enable others to practice onr invention we will now describe it in detail; the letters of reference being those used in the drawing.
A is the frame supporting the working parts and connections. B is the medium of connecting and communicating power. C is the airpump, connecting with the air-receiver D, by the proper pipes and valves. E is the line of hose for conducting the air to F, the blast-pipe of the atomizing apparatus. Gis the waterpump, connecting bypipes and valves with H, the water-receiver. I is the line of hose conducting water to K, the water-outlet, which is composed of a, an outer cylinder, b, an inner cylinder, open at both ends; and cc, end plates inclosing a Vwater-space between the two cylinders; this water-space communicating directly with the hose I, and with the hollow of the inner cylinder by means of numerous perforations d d, through which the water is forced in fine streams, there meeting the blast of air from the blast-pipe Ii, which is directed so that the blast shall pass directly through the inner open cylinder b, thus atomizing and giving direction to the iiow.
Having now describedour invention in such a manner that those skilled in the arts may practice it, what we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by vLetters Patent, is-
1. A fire-engine, consisting` of air and wan ter forcing pumps C and G connecting, by means of tubes, with an atomizin g apparatus,
consisting of a hollow trunk, K, opening into York, this 7th day of December and this 16th a water-jacket, a, surrounding a perforemd dey of December, A. D. 1871.v
tube, b, and the air blast-pipe F directed CLEMENT CLEVELAND, M. D. through theopen tube b, all as described above'. WILLIAM C. CLEVELAND.
2. The etomizingapparatus above described, consisting; of an air blast-pipe, F, directed Witnesses to the signatl1reofG-GLEvELAND:
through the opening of a hollow tube, b, (open SAML. HUGHES, at both ends and perforated by openings cl (1,) HARRY HUGHES, surrounded by a waiter-jacket, a, eommunicat- Witnesses to the signature of W. C. CLEVE- ingz; with the hollow trunk K. LAND:
The above specification of our said inven- A. T. CLEVELAND,
tion, signed and witnessed at Ithaca, and New MYRON G. STOLP.
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