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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- My invention relates to the utilization of fuel in boiler-furnaces; and it consists in taking from the fire-chamber a portion of the gases produced by combustion of the fuel therein, and so combining the samewith steam as to Vdecompose the latter, thus producing an inflammable gas, which with air is then injected into the fire-chamber, and thereby effecting a more thorough utilization of the fuel and its products, as hereinafter more fully described.
- Figure l is a top-plan view,'Fig 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a front end view, of a furnace-grate with devices applied for carrying out my method or process.
- Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 represent hollow perforated gratebars and frame, which may also be used.
- A represents an ordinary furnacegrate, with a roasting or coking hearth, B,'at its front end, though this At each side of the ashlatter is not essential.
- the steam-jet creates a strong blast, and does away with the necessity of blowers 5 and when everything is perfectly arranged the combustion is rendered so perfect lthat there is but little, if any, smoke or gases the entire surface of the grate, and thus brought more intimately into contact with the fuel and gases in the fire-chamber.
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A f Q y L. STEVENS, .l Apparatus For Burning Coal in Boiler-Furnaces. 510.153,99@ PatentedAug.H,1874.
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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
LEVI STEVENS, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR BURNING COAL IN B'OILER-FVURNACES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,990, dated August 11, 1874 application led July 1873.
To all whom it may concern:
; Be it known that I, LEVI STEVENS, of Washington, in the county of Washington and District'of Columbia, haveinvented certain Improvements in Apparatus for Burning Coal in Boiler-Furnaces, 8vo., of which the following is a'specication:
My invention'relates to the utilization of fuel in boiler-furnaces; and it consists in taking from the fire-chamber a portion of the gases produced by combustion of the fuel therein, and so combining the samewith steam as to Vdecompose the latter, thus producing an inflammable gas, which with air is then injected into the fire-chamber, and thereby effecting a more thorough utilization of the fuel and its products, as hereinafter more fully described.
. Figure l is a top-plan view,'Fig 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a front end view, of a furnace-grate with devices applied for carrying out my method or process. Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 represent hollow perforated gratebars and frame, which may also be used.
It is well known that the fuel used in furnaces is not fully utilized, the best practical results yet attained falling far short of the theoretical results, due from the amount of fuel used in any given case. Many plans have been devised to obviate this waste 4of fuel, but as yet without accomplishingu the desired result. l After many experiments I have devised a-method or planby which I am enabled to produce greatly Vimproved results inthis direction. VMy method, briefly stated, is to take diare many ways in which this may be done. I will, however, proceed to describe one means of carrying out the process.
In the accompanying drawings, A represents an ordinary furnacegrate, with a roasting or coking hearth, B,'at its front end, though this At each side of the ashlatter is not essential.
pit, under the grate, isarran ged a vertical plate, C, Figs. 2 and 3, which forms a narrow chambeL" or space, extending from the front along each side` of the ash-pit to the rear, within which I locate a tube, E, the rear end of which opens through the plate C under the grate, about midway of its length, as shown in Fig. 2, andby thedotted lines in Fig. 1. At the front of the grate, near each corner, I place a vertical tube, D, the upper end being left open for the yentrance of the hot gases from the fire, these tubes extending through the hearth B into the chambers alongside of the ash-pit be low, as shown in Figs. 2 and-3, and having a smaller tube or nozzle, a, extending-from their `rear sides into the open mouths ofthe side tubes E. Steam is taken from the boiler (not shown) by a pipe, Gr, which conducts it into therear end of superheatersF, arranged one along each side "of the grate, and from whence it passes in ahighly-heated state through pipes H at the front end, these pipes H being carried down into the side chambers, and` terminating each with a nozzle, t', that enters the tube D in line with the tube a and the larger tube E, as shown in Fig; 2, therebeing` an open space left around the nozzle t for the entrance of air into tube D, as shown in Fig. 3. `In like manner a space is left around the tube or nozzle a, where it enters the mouth of tube E, for the admission of still more air.
With this arrangement of devices, which can be easily applied to existing furnaces, the operation is as follows: The re is started in the usual manner, and as soon as steam is generated in the boiler it enters or is admitted to the superheaters, and as it escapes through the nozzles i into the tubes E it creates a vacnum in the tubes D, thereby drawing the gases.
from the burning fuel into them, where said gases, at a temperature of about 1,0700@ Fahrenheit, are brought into direct contact with the steam, at a temperature of about 6000. By the lunion of these at this high temperature the steam is decomposed, and an inflammable gas is produced, which being injected under the grate passes up through the fuel thereon, and materially assists in its combustion, and also of the gases which pass from the fire-chamber back under the boiler. As previously explained, air is drawn in by the steam-jet, and
mingled with the steam and gases from Athe fire-chamber to'aid in combustion; and, if desired, air may also be admitted into the ashpit at the front, as usual, though I generally keep it closed. The steam-jet creates a strong blast, and does away with the necessity of blowers 5 and when everything is perfectly arranged the combustion is rendered so perfect lthat there is but little, if any, smoke or gases the entire surface of the grate, and thus brought more intimately into contact with the fuel and gases in the lire-chamber.
Whilethe foregoing is one plan of device, and a very simple and efficient one, of carrying out and applying my method of utilizing fuel, more especially as applied to furnaces already built, I would remark that the devices may be modified or changed in many ways without affecting the principle. It is not absolutely necessary to pass the steam through superheaters, provided the gases taken from the lire-chamber are at a sufficiently high temperature when brought into contact with the steam to decompose the latter and produce the inflammable gas.
I am aware that smoke and the escaping products of combustion have been taken from the smoke-stack or from chambers at the rear end of a boiler, and by means of steamjets carried back with air into the ash-pit, or into chambers connected therewith; but such de'A v vices or plans were intended to consume. the
smoke and escaping products of combustion,
or prevent the escape of noxious gases into the surrounding atmosphere. I do not claim any such plan or devices nor will such accomplish lthe results attained by my method, for the reason that the temperature of the smoke and escaping products is too low to decompose the steam. My method diers from all such in this, that I take the gases direct from the fire-chamber at a high temperature, and bring them at once into contact with steam also at a high temperature, so as to decompose the steam and produce an inflammable gas, which, being injected into the lire-chamber, materially aids in the combustion of the fuel and its products.
Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. The herein-described method of utilizing fuel in furnacesthat is to say, by taking direct from the nre-chamber more or less of thc highly-heated gases of combustion, vmingling them with steam at a high temperature, and then injecting theseV commingled gases or their resulting product into the furnace, substantially as described. V
2. The combination, with a furnace,- of the tubes D, steam-pipes H, provided with nozzles z', and the tubes E, constructed and arrangedt0 operate substantially as and for the purpose set forth. LEVI STEVENS.
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P. T. DODGE. W. C. DODGE.
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