US139314A - Improvement in apparatus for separating quicksilver from amalgams - Google Patents
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- QSHDDOUJBYECFT-UHFFFAOYSA-N mercury Chemical compound [Hg] QSHDDOUJBYECFT-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 title description 14
- 229910000497 Amalgam Inorganic materials 0.000 title description 10
- 241000005139 Lycium andersonii Species 0.000 description 8
- 229910052753 mercury Inorganic materials 0.000 description 4
- XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N water Substances O XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 4
- 230000005494 condensation Effects 0.000 description 2
- 238000009833 condensation Methods 0.000 description 2
- 239000000446 fuel Substances 0.000 description 2
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- 229910052751 metal Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
- C22B—PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
- C22B9/00—General processes of refining or remelting of metals; Apparatus for electroslag or arc remelting of metals
- C22B9/02—Refining by liquating, filtering, centrifuging, distilling, or supersonic wave action including acoustic waves
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
- F27B—FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS IN GENERAL; OPEN SINTERING OR LIKE APPARATUS
- F27B17/00—Furnaces of a kind not covered by any preceding group
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- My invention relates to an improved retort for separating quicksilver from any metal with which it may be combined in the form of an amalgam.
- My improvement consists in the employment of two parallel pipes which pass from the interior of the retort and are con nected at their outer ends with the dischargepipe, thus serving to establish a current or circulation of the vapors through the upper pipe and back again through the lower pipe into the retort.
- My improvements further consist in surrounding either one or both of the pipes with a water-jacket by which the condensation is greatly hastened.
- E is another pipe which is connected with the end of the retort through which the pipe 0 passes at some point below tliec pipe on, and-t outer end of Whigh is connected? with .athe vertical discharge-pipe.
- the lower end; of i'the discharge-pipe D is immersed in water in the vessel F in the usual way.
- G is an annular jacket which surrounds the upper or outflowing pipe 0, and into which Water is conducted or drawn off through the pipes h h.
- the waterjacket can be applied either to the upper pipe alone or to both the upper and lower, a-sdesired. I prefer to employ it only on the upper pipe. I
- This improvement can be attachedto a potretort as well as the horizontal cylinder-retort.
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Witnesses fl wm Q UNITED STATES MARCUS B. HOWARD, ELLSWORTH, NEVADA.
IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUSFOR EERARATING QUICKSILVER FROM AMALGAMS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,314} datedMayfij 1873 application filed January 24, 1873.
To all whom it may concern: 7 I
Be it known that I, MARCUS B. HOWARD, of Ellsworth, Nye county, State of Nevada,
have invented an Improved Quicksilver Amalgam Retort; and I do hereby declare the following description and accompanying draw-' ings are sufficient to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it most nearly appertains, to make and use my said invention or improvement without further invention or experiment.
My invention relates to an improved retort for separating quicksilver from any metal with which it may be combined in the form of an amalgam. My improvement consists in the employment of two parallel pipes which pass from the interior of the retort and are con nected at their outer ends with the dischargepipe, thus serving to establish a current or circulation of the vapors through the upper pipe and back again through the lower pipe into the retort. My improvements further consist in surrounding either one or both of the pipes with a water-jacket by which the condensation is greatly hastened.
In order to more fully illustrate and explain my invention reference is had to the accomnected to the upper end of the vertical discharge-pipe D. E is another pipe which is connected with the end of the retort through which the pipe 0 passes at some point below tliec pipe on, and-t outer end of Whigh is connected? with .athe vertical discharge-pipe.
The lower end; of i'the discharge-pipe D is immersed in water in the vessel F in the usual way. G is an annular jacket which surrounds the upper or outflowing pipe 0, and into which Water is conducted or drawn off through the pipes h h. i
By employing the upper and lower pipes, O E, there will be an outflowing and inflowing current or circulation established. through them which passes the vaporized mercury rapidly and continuously through the water jacket or condenser, thus afi'ecting a material saving in time, labor, and fuel, as well as mercury, as has been demonstrated by repeated tests.
The waterjacket can be applied either to the upper pipe alone or to both the upper and lower, a-sdesired. I prefer to employ it only on the upper pipe. I
This improvement can be attachedto a potretort as well as the horizontal cylinder-retort.
Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,
pipe D, when attached to the retort B, in the manner and for the purpose above described.
2. The upper and lower pipes O E and vertical discharge-pipe D, in combination with one or more water-jackets, G, substantially as and for the purpose above described.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand I 1. The upper and lower pipes O E connected at their outer ends with the vertical discharge-
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