US286724A

US286724A - Boiler-cleaner

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Publication number: US286724A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-10-16
Anticipated expiration: 1900-10-16

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J. McGINLEY. BOILER CLEANER.

No. 286,724. Patented Oct. 16,1883.

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J. MoGINLEY. BOILER CLEANER.

No. 286,724. Patented Oct. 16, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES MOGINLEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BOILER-CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,724, dated October 16, 1883.

' Application filed February 12, 1883. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES MOGINLEY, a

b b are opened, when there will be a constant supply to the boiler through one of the pipes citizen of the United States of America, residl c, and a constant circulation through the other ing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boiler-Cleaners, of which the following is a specification, to wit:

This invention relates to improvements in boiler-cleaners; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and arrangement, substantially as will be hereinafter more fully described, and set forth in the claim.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a boiler with my improvement attached. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, and Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views of the perforated pipes placed within the boiler.

A represents a steam-boiler of any of the ordinary and well-known forms, within which I arrange two pipes, a a, at the water-level, provided on each side with a series of perforations, a, and connected by pipes b I), having globe-valves b b, with a cylindrical receptacle, B, located at one side of the boiler in any convenient position. In the bottom of the boiler I also arrange two perforated pipes, o 0, one of which is connected by a pipe, 0, provided with a valve, 0*, with the receptacle B, as shown in the drawings. The other pipe 0 is connected by a pipe, (I, with a supplypipe, (1, leading to the pump, and this latter pipe is provided with a g1obe-valvc, e, by which the supply may be out off at will, and between this valve and the pump it is also provided with a gate-valve, c. The pipe d is connected to the receptacle B by a short section, f, which is provided with a globe-valve, f, and also with a connection, g, having a valve, 9, leading to the waste-pipe, h, which connects the receptacle B with the sewer, and which latter pipe is provided, between the vessel B and the pipe with a valve, h. The valves are all closed except those in the sup ply d d, and water is pumped into the boiler until it reaches the proper height-level with the upper perforated pipes, a a. Steam is then raised and the valves in the pipes c and pipe 0, the receptacle B, and the pipes b b and a a, which will draw off all sediment in the boiler and deposit it in the vessel B, where it may be drawn off at any time to the sewer by opening the valve h. It will be readily understood that the shutting off of the pipe leading to the pump does not in any way interfere with the circulation throughthe other pipes and the receptacle B, and that any one of the pipes themselves may be blown off at any time without interferingwiththe action of the othersas, for instance, the closing of the valves 6 and f and opening the valve y will enable me to blow off one of the pipes c and the pipe (1 and f to the sewer without passing through the sediment-receptacle B or interfering with the circulation through the other pipes; or the other pipe 0 may be blown off without stopping the supply by simply shutting the valves b b and f and opening the valve h to the sewer. Again, the surface-pipes a a and their connections may be easily blown off by closing the valve 0" and opening h. The valves f and g always remain closed except when they are opened for special work, as the blowing off of one of the pipes, 850. It willbe seen that this constant circulation of water through the lower pipes, I c 0, keeps the sediment in the bottom of the boiler stirred up and draws it off, while the upper ones, a a, draw off all that may collect upon the surface of the water. As seen by Fig. 4, the lower perforated pipes, c e, have their perforations arranged above and below and upon each side alternately, so that all dirt will be readily drawn off at any stage of the water, and the pipes not weakened by being perforated too closely. The pipes at and a have T-connection x :v with the pipes (Z and 0, so that they can be disconnected, and the pipesa and 0 may be readily cleaned by the insertion of a rod or other means to prevent "all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES MCGINLEY.

\Vitnesses CHAS. Knnssaunx, FRANK JOHNSON.