US460482A

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Publication number: US460482A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-09-29
Anticipated expiration: 1908-09-29

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W. A. MORSE. LIVE AND EXHAUST STEAM WATER HEATER AND PURIFIER.

No. 460,482. Patented Sept. 29, 1891,

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LIVE AND EXHAUST STEAM WATER HEATER AND PURIFIER. No. 460,482. v Patented'Sept. 29, 1891.

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IVALLAOE A. MORSE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A SSIGNOR' OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN OBRIEN, OF SAME PLACE.

LlVE AND EXHAUST STEAM WATER HEATER AND PURIFIER;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 460,482, dated September 29, 1891.

Application filed December 16,1890. Serial No. 374.915. (N model.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WALLACE A. MORSE, of the city of St. Louis, in the State ofMissouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Exhaust-Steam ater-Heaters and Live-Steam Purifiers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in devices which may be used as exhaust-steam heaters and live-steam purifiers combined or may be used either as an exhaust-steam heater or a live-steam purifier, as may be desired.

My invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims;

Figure I is an end view of a pair of boilers and illustrating in elevation the drum of the exhaust-steam heater and live-steam purifier. Fig. II is a vertical longitudinal section of the drum, taken on line II II, Fig.'III. Fig. III is a transverse section taken on line III III, Fig. II.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the furnace, and 2 3 the boilers.

. 4. represents a drum located, preferably, over the boilers, and which is divided transversely into two compartments by a partition 5.

6 represents the live-steam-purifier end of the drum, and 7 the exhaust-steam-heater side of the drum. Each side is provided with a spray-cone 8, the inner member 9 of which is made fast to its circulatingpipes 10, as shown in Fig. II. This member of each cone is stationary, While the outer member 11 of each cone is movable and fits over a tube or sleeve 12, projecting downward from the top of the drum. The inner member 9 of each cone has an upturned lip 13, and the outer member 11 of each cone has a lip 14, preferably vertical or slightly inturned. This arrangement of the cones is for the purpose of making them self-cleaning and to admit an even spray of Water under all conditions of pressure, and they are self-cleaning for the reason that when they become clogged the outer members of the cones will automatically lift under the resistance to the passage of the water, and thus permit the sprays to clean themselves. The lower ends of the pipes 10 are closed, and the water entering through the pipes flows through perforations 15 into the space between the two members of the cones, where, on the live-steam-purifier end of the drum, it is mingled with steam entering the space 16 from a pipe 17 between the sleeve 12 and the pipe 10, which steam passes down between the two members of the cone.

18 represents a return circulating-steam pipe, which insures the circulation of steam through the pipe 17.

When both sides of the drum are used, the waterfirst enters the end 7 of the drum through the pipe 10 and falls from the cone 8 onto pans 20, over which it flows, andis finally deposited into this end of the drum, and is carried through means of a pipe 21 and a pump, (not shown,) with which the pipe 21 communicates, around to the pipe 10 of the end 6 of the drum, and falls through the cone 8 onto the pans 22 in the end 6 of the drum, and is finally 7 5 carried from this end of the drum through a pipe 23 to the boiler. The lower pan 20 in the end 7 of the drum deposits the water into the innerportion of this end of the drum, and before the water can reach the pipe 21 it is forced to percolate through a filter-box 24., and in like manner the water is deposited into the inner part of the end 6 of the drum from the lower pan 22, and is forced to percolate through afilter-box 25 before it can reach the pipe 23. Now, if it is desired to out out the end 7 of the drum for repairs'or otherwise the water may pass direct from the hydrant or other supply into the end 6 without first passing through the end 7 of the drum, and if it is desired to cutout the end 6 of the drum for repairs or otherwise the water can pass from the end 7 of the drum direct to the boiler through the pipe 21, which would then be connected to the boiler. The exhaust- 5 steam enters the end 7 of the chamber from a pipe 30 through a duct 31, and for the purpose of removing any .oil that may be contained in the exhaust-steam I locate at the mouth of the duct a collector consisting of a funnel 32, having a discharge-pipe 33. The mouth of the funnel is provided with inclined strips 84, which would receive the grease and deposit it into the funnel.

35 represents a blow-off pipe forming a connection between necks 36 on the respective ends of the drum.

37 represents a balance-pipe forming a connection between the respective ends of the drum, as shown clearly in Fig. II.

I claim as my invention 1. In alive-steam purifier or exhaust-steam heater, the combination of a drum and a spray-cone consisting of an inner stationary member and an outer movable member, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of a drum, a supplypipe, and a spray-cone consisting of an inner stationary member secured to the supplypipe and an outer movable member, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a combined live-steam purifier and exhaust-steain heater, the combination of a oil or grease remover consisting of a funnel provided with cross-strips 34, the said duct being arranged to direct the steam at an angle to the planes of the individual slats and the slats being inclined from the horizontal and having spaces between them for the descent of the grease into the funnel, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

WALLACE A. MORSE.

In presence of E. S. KNIGHT, J. M. MARo'r.