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0.-1VI. MORSE.

DUST GOLLBGTOR.

Patented Aug. 13, 1889.

A Y M m. A N.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORVILLE M. MORSE, OF JACKSON, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO THE KNICKER- BOCKER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE. l

DUST-COLLECTOR.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0.v408,98'7, dated August 13, 1889.

Application filed September 2, 1887. Serial No. 248,584. (No model.)

To all. whom t may concern: The dust-laden air passes from the supply- Be it known that I, ORVILLE M. MORSE, of spout C into the spiral passage D, and thence 55 Jackson, in the county of Jackson and State into the large end of the tapering separatingof Michigan, have invented a new and useful chamber B. As the aircurrent passes 5 Improvement in Dust-Collectors, of which through the spiral passage D, all of the air the following is a specification. and dust particles take part in the whirling This invention relates to a dust-collector motion, so that this motion is fully estab- 6o which is provided with a separating-chamber, lished when the dust-laden air reaches the into which the dust-laden air is delivered 4large end of the tapering separating-cham- Io from a tangential inlet-spout, whereby the ber. The whirling motion continues in the air is caused tol assume a whirling or gyrattapering chamber, whereby the dust is driven ing motion in the separating-chamber. This to the discharge-opening f While the purified 65 motion of the air causesthe solid particles to air escapes from the inner portion of the vorpass into the outer layer of the whirling body tex through the central exit-passage e, which 15 of air and to be deposited against the inner is surrounded by the spiral passage D. The 'surface of the separating-chamber, which latlatter imparts to the dust and air particles a ter is provided with a discharge-opening for motion toward the dust-discharge opening f, 7o the separated dust and an escape-opening for which reduces the tendency of these partithe puriiied air. A dust-collector of this kind cles to pass directly to the exit-passage e.

2o is described and claimed in an application I do not wish to claim in this application for patent filed by me March 81, 1886, Serial any patentable features except those specific- No. 197,807. ally set forth in the claims, and I reserve the 75.

The object of the present invention is to right to claim 'all other patentable features compel all the air and dust particles to take in other applications for patent heretofore 2 5 part in the whirling motion of the vortex in filed by me, particularly the following appli-l the separatingchamber before any of the air cations: Serial No. 197,307, iled March 31, particles reach the air-exit passage, and to 1886, and Serial Nos. 204,684. and 204,686, iiled 8o impart to the dust particles at the same time June 9, 1886. a motion in the. direction of the dust-dis- I claim as my invention- 3o charge opening. 1. The combination, with the separating My invention consists of theimprovements chamber having a dust-discharge opening which will be hereinafterfully described, and and provided at one end with an eXit-pas- 85 pointed out in the claims. sage for the purified air, Yof a supply-spout In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is and a spiral passage connecting said spout 35 a side elevation of my improved dust-colwith the separating-chamber and surroundlector. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. ing the air-exit passage, substantially as set Figs. 3 and 4. are 'vertical sections in lilies forth. 9o 0c and y y, Fig. 2, respectively. 2. The combination, with the tapering sep- Like letters of reference referto like parts arating-chamber provided at its large end 4o in the several figures. with an exit-passage for the purified air and A represents the frame of the machine, B at its small end with a dust-discharge openthe tapering separating-chamber, and C the ing, of a supply-spout and a spiral passage 95 supply-spout through which the dust-laden connecting said spout with the large end of air passes to the dust-collector. the tapering chamber and surrounding the 45 D represents a spiral passage or conduit air-exit passage, substantially as set forth.

which connects the spout C with the large fitness my hand this 29th day of August, end of the tapering chamber B, and which 1887. surrounds the tubular passage e, through which the puriiied air escapes from the ma- ORVILLE IWI. MORSE. 5o chine. Y

f represents the dust-discharge opening VVitnesses: formed at the apex or small end of the taper- C. H. BENNETT, ing chamber B. SAML. IjI. CAMP.

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