US222888A - Improvement in apparatus for moistening the atmosphere - Google Patents

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Apparatus for Moistening the Atmosphere.

- No. 222,888. Patented Dec. 23,1879.

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J. G. GARLAND.

Apparatuef'or Moistening the Atmosphere.

No. 222,888. Patented Dec. 23, I879.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JAMES G. GARLAND, OF 'BIDDEFORD, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT lN APPARATUS FOR MOISTENING THE ATMOSPHERE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,888, dated December 23, 1879 application filed September 25, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES G. GARLAND, of Biddeford, county of York, and State of Maine, have invented an Improvement in Apparatus for Moistening the Atmosphere, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus for moistening the air or throwing into a room water, or liquid, or medicants, and is applicable to every varietyof room, and whether re quired for mechanical, hygienic, or any other purpose.

The object of the invention is to provide an.

. apparatus which shall keep the air constantly supplied with any desired amount of moisture or liquid, and which shall at the same time,

difi'use such moisture or liquid uniformly throughout the different parts of the room.

Heretofore different kinds of devices have been described for imparting humidity to the atmosphere of rooms, one of which is described in Letters Patent granted to me on the 1st day of July, 1873, and reissued on the 12th day of August, 1879, No. 8,847. The apparatus described in this patent, although well calculated to infuse a large amount of moisture or liquid into the atmosphere of an apartment, was not provided with any means by which the moisture or liquid could be uniformly distributed into all the parts of the room, so as to make the atmosphere equally moist throughout the entire apartment.

An apparatus has also been devised for imparting moisture to a current of air admitted toa room or building by which the room or building was supplied with air moistened previous to its admission. Such an apparatus involved the mechanical supply of air to the room in addition to the apparatus for difiusin g moisture throughout the air.

I am also aware that an arrangement of pipes has been devised to be carried around a room, conveying water under pressure and spraying through ordinary spraying devices, such as the rose, whereby the water could be divided into thin streams, but not thoroughly diffused in the form of vapor.

My aim is to obtain the advantages of thorough and uniform diffusion through all parts of the room by means of atomizers, combined with a system of Water-pipes, and of air or steam, pipes, the air or steam pipes having proper apparatus for applying pressure, and the water-pipes being connected with a water-supply adapted to keep constantly on the same level in all the liquid-legs of the atomizer.

My apparatus, which is intended as a supplement or auxiliary to the apparatus described in my patent referred to above, consists, therefore, of a seriesof pipes arranged throughout the room, and provided with pipes adapted to conduct water and air or steam, and also provided with atomizers arranged in different parts of the room in numbers sufficient to completely and uniformly moisten the air or distribute liquid in every part, said air or steam pipes being provided with apparatus to give a regulated pressure, and said waterpipes being connected with a head or supply v the water and air supply. Fig.2 represents a side elevation of the bracket with the branch.

pipes and atomizers in side elevatiomand the main supply-pipes in section. 4

In these drawings, Arepresents apipe, which conveys the water to the atomizer, and which is arranged below the air-pipe B. Both of these pipes however, are represented as attached to the same row of posts, and they are carried along near each other. Instead of being arranged in the manner shown upon posts throughout the room, these pipes may be concealed within the ceiling or walls,-or beneath the floor, and branch pipes be carried to any desired point in the room from these main concealed pipes.

As represented more clearly in Fig. 2, transverse pipes a a are connected to the water-pipe A. These pipes are represented as exact duplicates, and, manifestly, one or both may be used, according tothe requirements of the room. Upon the outer ends of the pipes to a are fixed short vertical pipes b, into the open ends of which are let down the liquid-legs m of the atomizers. The supply of water through the pipe A into these branches must be arranged so that the Water will stand at a level indicated in Fig. 1,'or approximatelyin that position. 7

To the air-pipe B is connected also a series of branch pipes, 0 0, each set of which is arranged in relation to the branch water-pipes I), so as to act properly in relation throughout and accomplish the effect of the ordinary atomizer.

This apparatus for forcing out the diffused moisture or liquid, being well known, need not 7 here be specifically described.

- may be introduced by any blower or any mode of pressure, I may use steam under pressure brought by the pipe B to thebranch pipes c 0, steam obviously acting in the same manner for the diffusion of the moisture as the compressed air.

The atomizer-s are located at any convenient point upon the pipes, and are firmly supported in place by a bracket, D, provided with arms 0, through holes in which the transverse pipes pass.

The spray-tube is represented at N, Fig. 2.

When air is used in this apparatus the atomizing-tube should be of glass, and of metal when steam is used, and the connections with the steam-pipe should also be of metal, while, when the apparatus is used with air, the'connections may be made of rubber. The main supply-pipes only are fastened to the hangers or posts, and the spray-arms are always 10- eated at suitable distances from the posts, in order that the spray may not be thrown thereon.

The air or steam connections are supplied with proper stop-cocks, as represented clearly in Fig.2.

I do not limit myself to the special arrangement of pipes which Lhave shown, since the arrangement may be manifestly changed, as hereinbefore indicated.

What I claim is The combination of the water-pipe A, air or steam pipe B or O, branch pipes at b, and branch air or steam pipes c, said parts being arranged in relation to each other, and connected to the water-supply and to the steam or air supply, as set forth.

In testimony whereof .l have signed my name 'to this specificationin the presence of two sub-

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