Improvements in water cooling towers

679,627. Cooling-towers. MOUCHEL & PARTNERS Ltd., L. G. June 2,1950 [June 20, 1949], No. 16385/49. Class 64(i) Hot water is forced up a central vertical pipe rising from the lower part of a cooling tower a and is discharged through at least one annular or straight row of orifices d in a pipe communicating with the central pipe. A low tower a contains a central pipe g, Fig. 3, from which the hot water passes through radial pipes h to vertical pipes j. Annular and/or vertical rows of orifices d in the pipes j form discharge jets e from which the water falls towards the base f of the tower. In a modification, Fig. 4, the water discharges from holes d in the upper surfaces of pipes c radiating from a central pipe b, to be cooled, say from 90‹ to 50‹F, as it falls. The pipe arrangement may be in the lower part of a high tower, Figs. 1, 2 (not shown).