US15663A - Condenser foe- steam-engines - Google Patents

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11. MATTHEW. STEAM CONDENSER.

No. 15 ,'663. Patented Sept. 2, 1856.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID MATTHEW, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CONDENSER FOR STEAM-ENGINES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 15,663, dated September 2, 1856.

combining within the condenser between aseries of condensing plates or surfaces the united condensing action of both jets of water and of currents of atmospheric air in the manner substantially as presently de scribed.

The construction of my improvement is as follows, reference being had to the annexed drawings in which- Figure 1 is a top view of the steam boiler and condenser, with part of the boiler and condenser removed to show a portion of the interior of the condenser. Fig. 2 is a side View of the boiler, and condenser in section with its upper part in broken view to show the rose pipe, and in both figures like letters refer to like parts.

A is the steam boiler and its smoke box of any usual form.

B, is the condenser consisting of a series of vertical fiattubes connected in front to and extending below the steam receiving cylinder C and at their back ends connected to the condensed steam or water receiving cylinder D. These flat tubes are at right angles to the axis or centers of these two cylinders, and incline toward D to let the water run into it. These flat tubes also are connected together by numerous short horizontal cylindrical tubes 9 extending between them, and answering also as stays to prevent collapse, as well as giving additional condensing surface. Inside of the upper part of each of these flat tubes is extended a perforated water or jet pipe 6 running the whole length of the flue, and all of these jet pipes connect in front to a cross supply pipe W into which is discharged the supply of injection water for these rose pipes. These tubes and cylinders are surrounded by an outside casing K and by means of the blower H and its nozzle z or by velocity and a funnel shaped mouth in front of the engine or on the boat atmospheric air in a cool state is forced in and through the spaces between the fiat fiues and cross tubes or stays of the condenser and thus condenses the steam or aids the water in condensing the steam, and becoming heated passes back to assist the furnace, through pipe S. The injection water used in cross pipe W' and in the rose pipes 6 comes in contact with the steam which passes from the engines cylinders through the pipes X into the receiver G and condenser B where it is condensed and runs into the bottom of the receiver D from which it is extracted through pipe U. Vapor of bi-sulfuret of carbon may be condensed by this condenser, in which case the water will be extracted through pipe T and the bi-sulfuret through pipe U. The water from the receiver D may be forced by means of a double acting force pump through a series of cooling pipes so that it returns to the jet pipes cool and under pressure for repeated use.

Y is an exhaust pipe with a floating valve held down by the pressure of the atmosphere and only operating to exhaust up the chimney in case the condenser fails to condense from any accidental cause, or is shut ofi and the engine used as high pressure.

What I claim is The combination of the fiat vertical tubes i connected by horizontal tubes with rose pipes inside and surrounded by the outer case to condense by the combined action of air and water, substantially as described.

DAVID MATTHEW.

Witnesses:

CHARLES D. FREEMAN, PENROSE FELT.

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