Steam surface condenser

Claim 1

IN AN AIR-COOLED STEAM SURFACE CONDENSER FOR CONDENSING EXHAUST STEAM FROM A STEAM POWER ENGINE, HEATTRANSFER ELEMENTS ARRANGED IN PARALLEL ROWS, AND ADJACENT ROWS OF SAID HEAT-TRANSFER ELEMENTS DEFINING STEAM-CONDENSATE PASSAGE BETWEEN, VARIABLE FAN MEANS FOR DRAWING A COOLING GAS THROUGH SAID HEAT-TRANSFER ELEMENTS, DIVIDING MEANS DISPOSED IN SAID STEAM-CONDENSATE PASSAGES TO ESTABLISH UPPER AND LOWER CONDENSING ZONES THEREIN SEPARATED BY THE DIVIDING MEANS, SAID DIVIDING MEANS BEING INCLINED WITH RESPECT TO THE HORIZONTAL TO GRADUALLY REDUCE SAID STEAM-CONDENSATE PASSAGES IN CROSSSECTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROGRESSIVE DECREASE IN VOLUME OF STEAM PASSING THERETHROUGH, STEAM-CONDENSATE SUBCOOLING ZONES IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE UPPER CONDENSING ZONE, SEPARATING MEANS DISPOISED IN SAID STEAMCONDENSATE PASSAGES FOR SEPARATING SAID LOWER CONDENSING ZONE FROM THE SUBCOOLING ZONES, CONDENSATE STORAGE MEANS, AND A STEAM DISTRIBUTION CHAMBER, SAID LOWER CONDENSING ZONE RECEIVING THE EXHAUST STEAM AT A STEAM INLET SIDE FORM SAID STEAM DISTRIBUTION CHAMBER AND THE STEAM PASSING FROM THE LOWER TO THE UPPER ZONE, AND THE STEAMCONDENSATE PASSAGE BEING IN COMMUNIATION WITH SAID CONDENSATE STORAGE MEANS.