US1148501A - Device for removing particles from gases or fumes. - Google Patents

Description

c. G. COLLIN S.

DEVICE FOR REMOVING PARTICLES FROM GASES 0R FUMES. APPLICATION FILED DEC.6, I913.

LMfifiUL Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. a, rats.

Application filed December 6, 1913. Serial No. 805,030.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CALEB Gr. COLLINS, a

citizen of the United States of America, residing at Woodmere, Nassau county, New Y York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices for Removing Particles. from Gases or Fumes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for removing from gases or fumes particles which may be carried thereby or held in suspension therein.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a device of this character in which the particles which are to be extracted-from the gases or fumes containing the same are extracted in a dry state.

Other objects of the invention are to provide a device of this character which is simple in construction, which is not costly to manufacture and which is simple and reliable in operation.

Other objects will in part be obvious and in part be pointed out hereinafter.

For purposes of illustration the invention is described in connection with the removal of nascent sulfur from fumes or gases containing the same, but it is of course. understood that the invention is applicable to. I other ticles.

I gases or fumes carrying solidpar arrows. The baflle plates 4, it will be seen,'

divide the casing into a plurality of compartments in each of which there is placed a material 5 of such a character that the gases or fumes may pass therethrough, but

any particles carried by, or held in suspen-' sion by the thereon. j

c it has been found that .excelsior or asbestos fiber will answer the purpose and give beneficial results, it is of course understood that any other similar substance which gases or fumes, will be deposited terial 5 is placed. To the bottom of each receptacle is attached a rod 7 which passes through the bottom of the casing 1 and to the lower end of which a friction roller 8 is secured. -Extending beneath the casing 1 1s a shaft 9 provided with cams 10 adapted to engage the friction rollers 8. This shaft 7 may be rotated in any suitable manner, as for example by means of a belt (not shown) engaging the pulley 11. Each of the cams is so shaped that as the shaft rotates the cam will cause the receptacle 6 to alternately rise and fall, the downward motion of the receptacle being preferably due to gravity. The cams are furthermore so shaped that the downward motion of the receptacle will be abrupt or sudden, whereby the bottom of the receptacle comes in contact with stops 12 or the like, whereby the material within the receptacle will be subjected to a jolt which will cause the deposited substance contained within the material to be shaken out therefrom and to drop by gravity to the bottom of the casing 1.

As indicated in the drawing the cams are preferably so positioned as to act successively on alternate receptacles 6, whereby as one receptacle rises the adjacent receptacles will be falling. In order to guide the movement of the receptacles. guides 13 are provided which are secured to the baflle plates 4. The top of the casing 1 is provided with openings registering with the receptacles, which openings are normally closed by suitable cover plates 14:. g

. The operation of the device which should be obvious from the above description is as follows: The fumes or gases containing the sulfur or other particles which it is desired to remove therefrom enter; the casing by means of pipe 2 and pass therethrough as ini moved when desired in anysuitable manner.

While 6 receptacles are shown it is of course understood that the invention is not limited to this number, it being only necessary to have sufiicient material 5 to remove the particles carried by the gases or fumes.

Having described the invention, in connection with an embodiment thereof to the details of which the invention is not of course to be limited, what is claimed as new and what is desired to be protected by Letters Patent is set forth in the appended claims e 1. In a device of the class described, in combination, a casing provided with an inlet and with an outlet, a plurality of bafile plates provided within the casing in staggered relation to each other to provide intercommunicating compartments, receptacles mounted for reciprocation Within the said compartment, filter material mounted within each receptacle, and means for agitating the receptacles alternately.

2. In a device of the class described, in combination, a casing provided with an inlet and with an outlet, baflle plates provided with the casing in staggered relation to each other and affording intercommunicating compartments, receptacles mounted for reciprocation w1th1n the said compartments,

I filter material mounted within each recepably within said casing, means within said casing for collecting particles carried by gases or fumes passing through the casing, a projection extending from the lower part of said receptacle to the bottom of the casing, a shaft ournaled beneath the casing, a cam carried by the said shaft and adapted to operativelyengage said projection to operate the receptacle, and a bumper provided within the casing beneath the receptacle for engagement with the same during its downward movement.

4. In a device of the class described, in combination, a casing provided with an inlet and an outlet, a receptacle within said casing, means within said receptacle for collecting particles carried by gases or fumes passing through the casing, a projection extending from the lower part of said receptacle and through the bottom of said casing, a shaft below said casing and a cam carried by said shaft and adapted to operatively engage said projection to reciprocate said receptacle.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CALEB G. COLLINS.

Witnesses:

JAMES M. SPEAK, H. -M. BARRETT.

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