US Patent: 5,470X
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| Mode of Making or Manufacturing Salt From Sea Water or Salt Springs
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Patentee:
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| Henry J. Tudor (exact or similar names) - Boston, Suffolk County, MA |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Apr. 29, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
“The mode of procedure for which this patent is taken, is designed to facilitate evaporation by solar heat, and seems to be well calculated to produce the intended effect. It appears to us to be new, and is presented in its simple form, without appending to it other claims of doubtful novelty, which patentees so frequently hang as dead weights about the necks of their inventions.
Double inclined planes are to be made, which will appear something like the roofs of rope walks. They may be covered with hydraulic cement, &c. or may consist simply of boards, of from 4 to 10 feet in length, running from the ridge to the eaves. The salt water is to run slowly down these, into proper gutters. In order to distribute the water upon them, there is a gutter of wood which surmounts the ridge, and this is to be filled with the salt water. Gunny bags, or any suitable kind of cloth, or other material, is used to distribute the water from the gutters upon the inclined planes; one edge of a strip of cloth lying in the water, and the other, with a raveled edge, hanging over on to the inclined planes. The water is thus carried over by capillary attraction, and the quantity may be graduated to the weather, according as evaporation goes on more or Tess slowly; this is effected by allowing the water in the troughs to stand at different distances from the top. In this way brine of the same strength may be obtained whenever evaporation goes on, the quantity only being varied according to the heat and dryness of the air.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 5, Aug. 1829 pgs. 116-117
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