US523699A - Garbage furnace - Google Patents

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J. B. WAYT GARBAGE FURNACE; 7 No. 523,699. Patented July 81, 1894.

Witnesses f M UNITED STATES 1 PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES B. WAYT, F INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

GARBAGE-PU RNAC E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 523,699, dated July 31, 1894.

Application filed November 4, 1893. Serial No. 490,196. on. model) To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that 1, JAMES B. WAYT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianprovements in furnaces for burning garbage or other refuse matter, and consists in a novel arrangement of refuse burning chamber and the means for heating and burning the garbage in said chamber, and will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The object of my invention is to provide a refuse burning furnace that will the more rapidly consume all matter of an obnoxious nature without emitting any disagreeable odor. I attain this object by means of the furnace illustrated in the accompanying drawings inv which similar numbers of reference designate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1. is a longitudinal sectional elevation taken throughthe center of the garbage chamber and the heating furnace of the same, and Fig. 2. is a transverse sectional elevation of the same.

The main furnace 1 is surmounted by the arch 2 which is of fire-brick and extends longitudinally along the bottom of the structure toward the rear wall 3. and connects with the back-up-take 4, formed by said bridge wall 3, and the rear wall 5 of the furnace.

' The deflectingarch 6. which is builtinto the arch 7. of the refuse chamber 8, is provided for the purpose of deflecting the flame and heated gases downwardly against the material in the chamber 8 to consume or reduce it to ashes. The chamber 9, below the chamber 8, is formed by the bars 10, and is provided for the purpose of receiving the ashes as they fall from said grates.

Within the chamber 8, are arranged a series of arches 11, arranged at diflerent heights and distances apart, said arches being provided for the purpose of receiving and scat- I tering or spreading the material within said chamber the more readily to consume it; said.

arches being of fire clay or other suitable refractory heat absorbing material and which owing to their positions within said chamber, are impinged against by the heated gases, as

they pass through the furnace, thereby intensifying the heat therein and having a great capacity for heat tov desiccate and burn the material very rapidly by direct contact.

Over and on the top of the chambers 8, are

the dumping holes-12, through which the refuse or other material to be consumed is introduced in the chamber 8. I provide the openlatter arch wall being .built in the arch 7, of

the chamber 8 in such a manner as to bring the flue or consumed gas opening 15, beneath the level of the upper deflecting and refuse supporting arches'll, thereby causing the.

heated gases to flow downwardly and to impinge against any material resting on said supports 11, to rapidly consume it, said opening connecting with the stack or chimney 17. by which the consumed gases escape into the atmosphere.

It will be readily seen that with a furnace of this description that the flame and heated gases passing from the fire place 1, up through the uptake 4, into the chamber 8, will impinge against all the arches 11, which will all be intensely heated thereby confining the intensity of the heat in the garbage or refuse burning chamber to a very great extent, which being the case all material is at once consumed and all moisture escaping therefrom is at once decomposed into its elements and consumed rapidly without emitting any ofiensive odor to the atmosphere. The working of such a furnace is well known and needs no special description.

Having thus fully described the nature and construction of my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to cover by Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is-- 1. In a garbage furnace, the combination with an upper garbage chamber and a lower fire place extending longitudinally beneath said garbage chamber, a back uptake connecting said fireplace to said garbage chamber below the crown or top thereof, a series of arches of a refractory material arranged at different heights and distances apart, a forward wall having a gas exit opening beneath the level of said chamber arches, and a suitable flue or stack for discharging the products of combustion, substantially as set forth.

2. In a garbage furnace, the combination with an upper garbage chamber and a lower fire chamber beneath said garbage chamber, a back uptake connecting said fire chamber to said garbage chamber, below the crown thereof, a series of arches of a refractory material arranged at difierent heights and distances apart, a grate extending along said garbage JAMES B. WAYT.

WVitnesses:

THOMPSON R. BELL,

J NO. G. THURTLE.

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