US1239730A - Spark or cinder arrester or collector. - Google Patents

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I. J. SHIFLEY & G. WOLFGANG.` SPARK 0R clNDER ARRESTER 0R COLLECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 22.1916.

Patented Sept. 11, 1917/.

ISAAC J. `SHIFLEY AND GEORGE WOLFGANG, 0F TAMPA, FLORIDA.

SPARK OR CINDER ARRESTER OR COLLECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept.. ill, tgl?.

Application filed July 22, 1916. Serial No. 110,813.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, IsAAo J. SHIFLEY and GEORGE WOLFGANG, oi Tampa, in the county of Hillsborough and State of Florida, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spark or Cinder Arresters or Collectors; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, su'liicient to enable others `skilled in the art to which the invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Our invention relates to a spark or cinder collector or arrester, for use on smoke stacks or steam engines; the objects of the invention are:

lst. To prevent fires from sparks and cinders.

2nd. rIo prevent the emission or expulsion of sparks and cinders from smoke stacks or steam engines.

3rd. To collect these sparks and cinders and to provide an outlet for them and to convey them to any suitable place.

4th. Not to choke or retard the draft of the smoke stack.

We attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view or plan showing the device in position or installed on the smoke stack of a locomotive engine; Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the device on the smoke stack of a locomotive engine; Fig. 3 is a view or section of the device, looking down the smoke stack after the installation of the devices.

The device consists of a number of inclined walled annuli or disks, A, A, etc., Fig. 2, the number and size to be regulated by the size of the smoke stack; they are connected by three or more hangers or braces.

The sides of the disks, 1-2, 3, 4, 5-6, 7, 8, and 9--10, are inclined from their lower edges upwardly and outwardly, or so arranged that the upper edges protrude beyond the lower edges of the disks above and also that the sides point or slope toward the point l0 in Fig. 2 so that the sparks or cinders will be deflected when they strike these disks to point 10, which is the rim or top of the device; the sparks or cinders fall from point l0 or the rim on to the base, which is concave or sloping, and roll to and are collected at the lowest point 2-2 in Fig. l. They are carried off in pipes AA in Y Fig. l, or C in Fig. 2. y These pipes lead to the ground or to any convenient place.

The lower disk is in the shape of a cone pointed at the bottom and is solid. All the other disks have no bottom or top but are y open for the emission of smoke and steam.

The device is larger than the smoke stack to provide for eXtra air space and to prevent choking and not to interfere with the draft.

The device is fastened to the smoke stack by rivets or bolts.

I-Iaving thus fully described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

In a separator of the class described, an'

inner tubular member, an outer tubular member spaced from said inner member and having a flooring attached to the outer wall of said inner tubular member, and provided with an annular baiile member projecting in wardly and overhanging the upper edge of said inner member and a plurality of supplemental baffle members of successive decreasing baii'iing area supported by said annular baille member within said inner tubular member, a discharge pipe extending from said flooring for the discharge and collection of matter.

ISAAC J. SI-IIFLEY.

GEORGE VOLFGANG.

@opten of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Batents,

' Washington, D. C.

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