List of steam technology patents


List of steam technology patents. This is a list of patents relating to steam engines, steam locomotives, boilers, steam accumulators, condensers, etc.

Belgian patents

British patents

  • , 1897, Improvements in means for providing for the free circulation of air in steam cylinders when the pistons are running and the steam cut off
  • , 1899, Improvements in feed water purifiers and heaters for steam generators
  • , 1899, Improvement in rotary steam engines
  • , 1899, Improvements in steam generators
  • , 1901, An improvement in starting valves for compound steam engines
  • , 1901, Improvements in valves for use in compound locomotives and other compound engines
  • , 1905, Improvements relating to the working of compound engines and in regulator valves therefor
  • , 1906, Improvements in valve gear for locomotives or similar coupled steam engines
  • , 1907, Improvements in locomotive superheaters
  • , 1907, Combined spark arrester and ash ejector for locomotive engines
  • , 1914, Improvements in and relating to power systems
  • , 1919, Improvements in or relating to fireless steam locomotives and engines
  • , 1925, Improvements in closed cycle steam power installations
  • , 1936, Improvements in or relating to steam power plants comprising feedwater heaters and hot-water accumulators
  • , 1936, Improvements in or relating to steam plants including hot-water accumulators
  • , 1940, Improvements in or relating to plant for operating fireless locomotives
  • , 1941, Improvements in or relating to steam generators
  • , 1949, Improvements in or relating to the conversion of fired locomotives into fireless locomotives
  • , 1949, Improvements in or relating to apparatus for electrically heating high-pressure steam generators or high-pressure steam accumulators
  • , 1950, Improvements in or relating to fireless locomotives having high pressure steam accumulators
  • , 1950, Improvements in or relating to charging cranes for fireless locomotives
  • , 1950, Improvements in or relating to throttle valves for high-pressure steam accumulator fireless locomotives
  • , 1950, Improvements in or relating to the arrangement of controls in the cabs of fireless locomotives
  • , 1950, Improvements in or relating to high pressure steam accumulator locomotives
  • , 1955, Fireless steam-driven vehicle
  • , 1962, Solid fuel grates for locomotive fire boxes
  • , 1963, Means for supplying solid fuel to locomotive fire boxes

Canadian patents

French patents

  • , 1988, Removable furnace body, burning poor-grade fuel, for an industrial generator

German patents

  • , 1990, Blast pipe for steam locomotive - has control systems for varying pipe opening
  • , 1994, Feedwater-preheater construction for preheating temperatures above 100 deg C for steam generators, in particular locomotive-type boilers
  • , 1999, Steam locomotive with steam storage boiler coupled to running gear, and used for shunting and industrial purposes

Japanese patents

Russian patents

US patents