US85031A - Improvement in wash-boilers - Google Patents

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EDWARD SEELEY, or SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA. Letters Patent No. 85,031, dated December 15, 1868` I To all whom it 'may concewt: t

Be it known that I, EDWARD SEELEY, of Scranton, county of Luzerne, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and'improved Wash-Boiler; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making apart of this speciiication, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view.

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section thereof, showing the contracting passages through which the water rises, and also the aperture through which it is discharged.

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse section on line :c :c of fig. 1, showing the dcecting-plate, and the chamber through which the water ascends to the dischargeaperture.

Similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts.

This invention relates to boilers inwhich clothes are washed by means of jets of water, and by the force of steam, which is generated therein while the process of cleaning them is being performed; and

t consists'in the construction ofthe delecting-platey arrangement with reference to the ascending-water,

passages; and, further, in the construction of the passages through which the water ascends from the'bottorn of the boiler to the surface of the contents of such boiler, as will be more fully described hereafter.

Experience has demonstrated the fact that the eiiicicncy of this class of boilers or washers depends, to a great extent, upon the force or momentum which is given to the jets of water which fall upon the surface of the clothes while being cleaned, and my' invention is designed, amongst other things, to remedy a defect existing in those boilers now in use, in this respect, by providing-a decctingplate at the bottom of such boiler, and arranging it in such a manner that only so much water shalll come in actual contact with the bottom of the boiler as is necessary to preserve it iiom injury, and to furnishA suliicient steam to induce the upward flow of the bulk of the water, the direction to which is of the proper dimensions to nearly fill the boiler in the- A direction ofits greatest length, while its edges pass under the lower edge of the plates C, which form the 4water-ascending passages, but do not touch the sides of the boiler, but terminate at a distance therefrom sutcient to leave a passage for the steam which is generated below such plate to ascend, in doing `which it passes the edge of the plate with great rapidity, thus inducing or compelling the water to take the same direction, which operation is facilitated by the construction of the plate, and by its peculiar coniiguration.

It will be observed that the arrangement of the above-described plate is such, that, when in operation, very little water can settle upon the bottom oi' the boiler, by which means .the space below the deflectingplate is converted into a steam-chamber.

' C C' are plates, ofmetal, which, together with that portion of the boi-ler which they cover, form the ascending-passagcs for the water. They consist of plates or sheets, which, at their ends and at their top edges, are soldered or otherwise secured to the plates or sides a'of the boiler, in such a manner as to leave the passage, through which the water ascends, a gradually-decreasing one,from its bottom to its top. These plates extend from near the bottom of the boiler, as shown in iig. 3, upwards for about vone-third that of the height of the boiler, for which distance they form but one passage orv chamber, but at which point they terminate, and for the remainder of the distance they are divided into the form of pyramidal chambers or passages, through cach of which water passes to the apertures t a., where it is discharged to the surface of the' contents of the'boiler.

D is the cover of the boiler, which is, ofthe usual construction, and is held in its closed position by clasps or buttons, in any convenient manner.-

E is a rim,'formed upon the top edge of the boiler, which is so constructed as to form a trough or conduit entirely around-the upper 'edge thereof, into which any waterwhich may be forced up around the edge of vis for the purpose of conducting water from such conduit to the boiler.

G are buttons or clasps, for securing the cover D of the boiler in position when in use. They consist of ypieces oi' metal, hinged to the upper edge of the boiler in such a way, that, when turned down in the manner shown in the drawings, they rest upon and hold the -coverin contact with the boiler but they may be turned up, and thus relieve such cover, and allow it to be readily removed.

Having thus described my invention,

lVhat I claim, and desire to secure byI Letters Patent, is

1. The dome-shaped deiiectingplate, with its up- -Wardly--inclined edges, substantially as shownand de- 3. The within-described construction ofthe passages scribed. for the ascending Water.

2. The arrangement of the deectiug-plate B, with In testimony whereof7 I have signed my name to reference to the plates C CTzuid to the plates forming this specification, in the presence of two subscribing i the Walls of the boiler, :is acousequenoe of which, only witnesses.

a, small amountr of water is allowed to pass below suchy Witnesses: K E. SEELEY. deeoting-plate when the boiler is in use, substantially D. P. HOLLOWAY, as shown and described. C. F. OLAUSEN.

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