US8629A - Steam and water gage - Google Patents
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- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
- F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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- My invention which is intended ⁇ to show or indicate the height of the water, and also the pressure of the steam, in steam boilers, at an elevation above, ⁇ or the required distance therefrom, consists, in giving to a glass and two metallic tubes, such as form and combination, that when filled with the requisite quantities of air and water (and the tubes being united and properly attached to a boiler) they producethe result above named.
- the glass tube C is in form a ⁇ siphon with the legs parallel, and of equal length. To these are joined in any well known or convenient manner the metallic tubes A and B, which form but an elongation of the legs of the siphon, and are inserted, the one into the steam space and the other into the lower part of the water space of the boiler D.
- the tube A connectedwith the steam space enters' the boiler at the water line (or a little above) and runs for some yards horizontally, or a little inclined downward, when it again'bends more directly downward, forming a deep bend or curve, and then runs in any convenient direction to the glass siphon.
- the object of this arrangement is to allow the ⁇ steam to condense in the horizontal part of the tube, and thus to keep it filled with water from the lass to the boiler, except a portion of the perspectiveal part next the boiler, which is filled with steam.
- the tube B connected with the water space of the boiler ⁇ bends downward more or less soon after leaving the boiler and then runs with the other tube d to the siphon.
- the boiler is filled to a little above the proper water line, so as to flow into the upper tube A. It will then stand in both branches of the siphonon a level with that in the boiler, provided the cocks at E have been turned, so as ⁇ to allow the air to escape from the tubes. Steam is then raised, upon which, ⁇ the water will rise, and equally in both legs of the siphon, with the increasing pressure, until it flows from the lateral apertures at E. All the air being now expelled from the tubes below the cocks, or the lateral apertures, the cocks are then turned, or the plugs screwed in so as to close the lateral apertures and open a communication into the glass above.
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UNTTED sTATEs -PATENT oEEIcE.
WM. C. GRIMES, OFSPRING GARDEN, PENNSYLVANIA.
STEAM AND WATER GAG-E.
Specification of Letters Patent No. 8,629, dated January 6, 1852; Antedated July 6, 1851.
To all whom t may concern:
Be it known that I, WM. C. GRrMEs, of`
Spring Garden,A in the county `of Philadelvented a new and Improved Mode of Show -ing or Indicating the Height of the Vater and Also the Pressure of the Steam in Steam-Boilers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the `accom-` 1 panying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.`
My invention, which is intended `to show or indicate the height of the water, and also the pressure of the steam, in steam boilers, at an elevation above, `or the required distance therefrom, consists, in giving to a glass and two metallic tubes, such as form and combination, that when filled with the requisite quantities of air and water (and the tubes being united and properly attached to a boiler) they producethe result above named. The glass tube C is in form a `siphon with the legs parallel, and of equal length. To these are joined in any well known or convenient manner the metallic tubes A and B, which form but an elongation of the legs of the siphon, and are inserted, the one into the steam space and the other into the lower part of the water space of the boiler D. The tube A connectedwith the steam space, enters' the boiler at the water line (or a little above) and runs for some yards horizontally, or a little inclined downward, when it again'bends more directly downward, forming a deep bend or curve, and then runs in any convenient direction to the glass siphon. The object of this arrangement is to allow the `steam to condense in the horizontal part of the tube, and thus to keep it filled with water from the lass to the boiler, except a portion of the orizontal part next the boiler, which is filled with steam. The tube B connected with the water space of the boiler, `bends downward more or less soon after leaving the boiler and then runs with the other tube d to the siphon.
To put the instrument in operation the boiler is filled to a little above the proper water line, so as to flow into the upper tube A. It will then stand in both branches of the siphonon a level with that in the boiler, provided the cocks at E have been turned, so as `to allow the air to escape from the tubes. Steam is then raised, upon which, `the water will rise, and equally in both legs of the siphon, with the increasing pressure, until it flows from the lateral apertures at E. All the air being now expelled from the tubes below the cocks, or the lateral apertures, the cocks are then turned, or the plugs screwed in so as to close the lateral apertures and open a communication into the glass above. Any further ascent of the water in the siphon will now be resisted by having the air to compress above it, vhence the degree of pressure in pounds per square inch may be read upon a. properly graduated scale placed beside it.- The two columns of water having ascended into the glass, will now stand at the same height or level therein, until the water in the boiler falls below the mouth of the Lipper tube, when a change of level in the ends .of the fluid columns, just equal to the fall of water in the boiler,-below the mouth of the tube-takes place; the column connected with the lower part of the boiler having descended and the other ascended,`each in an equal degree if the caliber of each leg of the siphon is the same. The ascend of one column of liquid upon the descent of the other, is due to the necessity of the air retaining itsbulk under What I claim herein as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is
The combination of the elevated glass siphon, containing a portion of air above,
with the metallic tubes containing water below, arranged with respect to each other,
and the index as herein described, for the purpose of showing or indicating the height of the water, and also `the pressure of the steam, in steam boilers, at an elevation above, or at the desired distance therefrom.
IVM. C. GRIMES. Witnesses:
HENRY SIMPSON,` GEO. I-I. SPRINGER.
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