Incinerator and smoke abatement apparatus

Claim 1

AN INCINERATOR FOR EFFECTING THE SMOKELESS COMBUSTION OF WASTE COMBUSTIBLES CHARGED THEREINTO COMPRISING: MEANS DEFINING A COMBUSTION CHAMBER ADAPTED TO RECEIVE A CHARGE OF WASTE COMBUSTIBLES WHEREBY BURNING OF SAID CHARGE OF COMBUSTIBLES INITIATES AT THE BOTTOM AND SPREADS UPWARDLY THERETHROUGH, A CHARGING DOOR DEFINING AN ACCESS MEANS TO SAID COMBUSTION CHAMBERS DISPOSED SO AS TO POSITION A NEW CHARGE OF WASTE COMBUSTIBLES ONTO PILE OF WASTE COMBUSTIBLES BURNING THEREIN, MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID COMBUSTION CHAMBER TO EXHAUST THE WASTE GASES, MEANS FOR CONTROLLING THE TEMPERATURE OF THE CHARGE EXTENDING BEYOND THE FLAME ZONE OF SAID PILE OF BURNING COMBUSTIBLES TO PREVENT THE SMOKING DISTILLATION THEREOF PRIOR TO IGNITION WHEN THE TEMPERATURE IN SAID CHAMBER EXCEEDS A PREDETERMINED LIMIT, SAID CONTROL MEANS INCLUDING A WATER SPRAY NOZZLE EXTENDING INTO SAID CHAMBER AND ABOVE SAID BURNING CHARGE OF WASTE MATERIALS FOR MODULATING INITIAL COMBUSTION OF A NEW CHARGE OF WASTE COMBUSTIBLE, AND SAID NOZZLE HAVING AN ANGLE OF DIVERGENCE TO ASSURE THAT THE FLUID SPRAYED THERETHROUGH DOES NOT CONTACT THE FIRE WALLS OF SAID COMBUSTION CHAMBER, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE OPENING OF THE DOOR FOR ACTIVATING SAID SPRAY NOZZLE TO SPRAY TO TOP OF SAID PILE OF COMBUSTIBLES TO REDUCE THE TEMPERATURE THEREOF BELOW THE DISTILLATION TEMPERATURE THEREOF AFTER THE CHARGING DOOR HAS BEEN OPENED, AND MEANS FOR INDICATING WHEN THE TEMPERATURES IN SAID COMBUSTION CHAMBER EXCEEDS THE DISTILLATION TEMPERATURE OF SAID COMBUSTIBLES.