US710654A

US710654A - Steam-separator.

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Publication number: US710654A
Application number: US9231301A
Authority: US
Inventors: John Angell
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1901-04-24
Filing date: 1901-04-24
Publication date: 1902-10-07
Anticipated expiration: 1919-10-07

Description

No. 7l0,654. Patented Oct; 7, I902.

J. ANGELL.

STEAM SEPARATOR.

(Applicationfiled Apr. 24, 1901. Renewed Feb. 3, 1902.)

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No. 7I0,654. Patented Oct. 7, I902.

J. ANGELL.

STEAM SEPARATOR.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN ANGELL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

STEAM-SEPARATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,654, dated October 7, 1902.

Application filed April 2 1, 1901. Renewed February 3, 1902. Serial No, 92,313. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, JOHN ANGELL, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful 1mprovements in Steam-Separators, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to that type of separators for removing oil and water of condensation and entrainment from steam in steam-engineering plants.

The object of the present improvement is to provide a simple, compact, and efficient apparatus in which the separation is effected and maintained in a very perfect manner and a remiXture by entrainment prevented, all as will hereinafter more fully appear and be more particularly pointed out in the claims. I attain such object by the construction and arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section at line 00 00, Fig. 2, of a steam-separator embodying the present invention and illustrating an arrangement of the same for use on horizontally-arranged steam pipes or mains; Fig. 2, a View, partly in elevation and partly in transverse section, at line 00 Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a horizontal section of the same, taken on line 00 00 Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a central vertical section of a modified form of.the present invention at line 00 x Fig. 5; Fig. 5, a horizontal section through the upper or main portion of the same, taken at line x at", Fig. 4.

Similar numerals of reference indicate like parts in the several views.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the main separator-casing, of any usual form and construction, but preferably of a substantially rectangular form, as shown, and having rounded upper corners to better deflect and direct the steam and an inclined bottom adapted to effectively shed the oil and separated water down into the receiving-chamber 2, which may be of any usual form and connected to the main separator-casing l indirectly by a reduced neck 3 in the main form of my present invention, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or in a direct manner with-- out the intermediate neck, as illustrated in the modified form of the present invention illustrated in Figs. 1 and 5.

raters, in which a halide-plate is 4 and 5 are the respective inlet and outlet necks or openings of the separator-casing, to which the respective portions 6 and 7 of the steam pipe or main are secured in any usual manner, preferably by attaching-

flanges

8 and 9, as shown, in view of the fact that the same affords the more convenient means of attachment to the large diameter of steam pipes or mains with which the present apparatus is most generally used, and in the present improvement for the additional purpose of affording a convenient and substantial attachment for the detachable neck hereinafter described and which is intended to prevent a reentrainment at the outlet from the separator of the oil and water that has been previously separated in the apparatus.

10 is a detachable extension or neck provided atits outer end with an attaching-flange 11, by means of which it is secured in place between the attaching-flange 9 of the steampipe and the side of the main casing, as shown. Such extension or neck is adapted to form a continuation of the steam-pipe section and is arranged toproject a distance into the interior of the separator and at its inner end is provided with an angular marginal flange 12, that is adapted to prevent in a very perfect manner the usual tendency of the oil and moisture upon the inner wall of the separator-casing to creep toward or in the direction of the outlet from such casing.

13 is a vertical imperforate wall or partition arranged centrally within the separatorcasing and extending from side Wall to side wall of the casing and from the bottom of said casing to within a short distance from the top of the same, so as to leave a passage or opening at such point for the passage of the steam from the inlet to the outlet orifices. It is material to the present construction that the upper end of such wall or partition extends some distance above the inlet and outlet orifices, so that the course of the steam through the apparatus will be a circuitous one and so that the incoming current of steam will .directly impact against the nearest face of such wall or partition, as usual to the present type of sepaarranged in the path of the steam through the separator.

The main feature of noveltyin the present invention involves the combination,with such impact-wall located in the described manner, of means for directing the incoming steam with its water, 850., of entrainment in a di vided or disseminated condition against such impact-wall, so as to insure a very perfect separation of such oil, water, 850., the particles of which in the described disseminated condition as they impact against such wall readily lose their momentum and adhere thereto, to be subsequently carried by gravity down into the receiving-chamber of the separator. Accordingly the above-mentioned directing and disseminating means will in the present invention comprise a construction as follows:

14 is a grid or break of a size substantially the same as the vertical impact-wall 13 and arranged in adjacent vertical yet separated relation therewith and preferably by means of a forwardly-curved flange 15 at the upper end of the impact-wall, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. Such grid or break will preferably be formed by two vertically-arranged series of bars 16, inclined downwardly from the center of the grid, as shown in Fig. 2, and preferably connected together in a single integral piece by a series of vertical connecting-bars 17 to form a series of oblong reticulations or slots through the grid and through which the incoming steam has free passage to impact against the vertical wall 13 for the purpose and with the results above stated.

In the present construction the series of inclined bars 16 and the intermediate vertical connectingbars 17 will have a triangular shape in cross-section, with their apices in the direction of the incoming steam, so as to offer a minimum obstruction to the same and in addition cause a very efficient division or dissemination thereof upon the impact-wall 13.

In the preferred form of the grid or break 14, as shown more especially in Figs. 3 and 5 of the drawings, the same will have a concaveconvex form at each side of its vertical median line with a view to obtain a more effective division of the steam, 850., and in conjunction with the central upward extension or rib 13 of the impact-wall 13 effect a uniform movement of the steam through the area of the separator in the passage of such steam from the inlet to the outlet orifices.

19 is a drain-pipe adapted to convey the water, &c., caught in the chamber or compartment next adjacent to the outlet-orifice of the separator down into the receiving-tank or holder of the separator.

In a more complex form of my present invention and one which is more especially adapted for use in vertically-extending or angularly-arranged steam pipes or mains, as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, a pair of the slotted or reticulated grids or breaks 14 will be employed in connection with a single vertical impact-wall l3 and the main separator-casing 1 will be partitioned in the manner shown and provided with directing-openings 20 in such partitions adapted to guide the steam,

650., in a direct manner onto the grids or breaks in the manner and for the purpose hereinbefore described.

No claim is made in the present application to the particular arrangement of chambers and inlet and outlet passages shown in Figs. at and 5, as the same is substantially involved in the subject-matter of a companion application filed April 24, 1901, Serial No. 57,163.

The course of the steam through the apparatus is indicated by arrows in the difierent figures of the drawings and will enter through the inlet-neck 4 and by means of the disseminating grid or

grids

14 or 14 be directed against the impact-

wall

13 or 13, after which the steam passes in the circuitous manner indicated by the arrows toward the outletneck 5.

Havingthus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a steam-separator having inlet and outlet passages, the combination of an imperforate impact-wall arranged transversely to the inlet-passage, and a disseminating grid or break arranged in separated relation to the impact-wall and between the same and the inlet-passage, said grid having a concave-convex form at each side of its vertical median line, and formed with a series of slots or reticulations, substantially as set forth.

2. In a steam-separator having inlet and outlet passages, the combination of an imperforate impact-wall arranged transversely to the inlet-passage, and a disseminating grid or break arranged in separated relation to the impact-wall and between the same and the inlet-passage, said grid having a con cave-convex form at each side of its vertical median line and formed with a series of oblong reticulations that have an inclined arrangement, substantially as set forth.

3. In a steam-separator having inlet and outlet passages, the combination of an imperforate impact-wall arranged transversely to the inlet-passage, and a disseminating grid or break arranged in separated relation to the impact-wall and between the same and the inlet-passage, said grid having a concave-convex form at each side of its vertical median line and formed with a series of oblong reticulations that are inclined downwardly from the center of the grid, substantially as set forth.

4. In a steam-separator having inlet and outlet passages, the combination of an imperforate impact-wall arranged transversely to the inlet-passage, and a disseminating grid or break arranged in separated relation to the impact-wall and between the same and the inlet-passage, said grid having a concave-convex form at each side of its vertical median line and comprising a series of separated and connected bars having a triangular form in cross-section, substantially as set forth.

5. In a steam-separator having inlet and outlet passages, the combination of a cen stantially as set forth.

trally-arranged imperforate impact-Wall arranged transversely in the path of the passing steam, and a pair of reticulated grids arranged in separated relation at opposite sides of the impact-wall, the reticulations of the grids having an oblong form and inclined downwardly from the center of the grids, sub- 6. In a steam-separator having inlet and outlet passages, the combination of a centrally-arranged imperforate impact-Wall arranged transversely in the path of the passing steam, and a pair of reticulated grids arranged in separated relation at opposite sides of the impact-Wall, said grids each comprising a series of separated and connected bars having a triangular form in cross-section, substantially as setforth.

7. The combination With a steam-separator having inlet and outlet passages, and means for removing the water, 850., of entrainment, of a neck or extension constituting a continuation of the outlet-passage and arranged to project into the interior of the separator, its inner end being provided with a marginal flange, substantially as set forth.

8. The combination With a steam-separator having inlet and outlet passages, and means for removing the water, &c., of entrainment, of a neck or extension constituting a continuation of the outlet-passage and secured in a detachable manner to the separator-casing so as to project into the interior of the same its inner end being provided with a marginal flange, substantially as set forth.

9. The combination with a steam-separator having inlet and outlet passages, and means for removing the Water, &c., of entrainment, of a neck or extension constituting a continuation of the outlet-passage and secured in a detachable manner by means of a flange on its outer end to the separator-casing and arranged to proj ect into the interior of the same, substantially as set forth.

10. The combination with a steamseparator having inlet and outlet passages, and means for removing the Water, &c., of entrainment, of a neck or extension constitutinga continuation of the outlet-passage and secured in a detachable manner by means of a flange on its outer end to the separator-casing and arranged to project into the interior of the same, the inner end of said neck being provided with a marginal flange, substantially as set forth. i

Signed at St. Louis, Missouri, this 17th day of April, 1901.

JOHN ANGELL.

Vitn esses:

EDGAR G. PARKER, CHARLES K. PIcKLEs.