US1632432A - Oil-gas apparatus - Google Patents

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E. CAMERQN June 14, 1927.

OIL GAS APPARATUS Filed April 4, 1925 iNVENTElE- talented June 14, 1927.

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EDWARD CAMERON, or new YORK, N. Y.

OIL-GAS APPARATUS.

' Applic ationfiled April 4, 1925. Serial 1%. 20,270.

l attain my object by means of the constructions hereinafter described and illus trated in the accompanying drawings. in which Fig. l. is a side elevation of my improved apparatus, the casing being shown in section;

2 a plan View of my improved apparatus, the casin being removed;

Fig. 3 a vertical section through one oi the horizontal sections; and

Fig. l a detail in vertical section illustrating the joint between the vertical sections.

1 is a metal casing, which is preferably provided with a lining 2 of refractory ma- 39 terial. Within this casing is provided my improved gas generating apparatus, which apparatus comprises a plurality of superimposed generating sections 3, each of which has arranged therein in a horizontal plane a circuitous passage. Each section is provided at its upper side with a projection 4: and at its lower side with a projection 5 through which the inlet for said passage is formed so that when the parts are in position the main part of each section will be spaced from the main parts of the section above and the section below. The sections 3 may be secured together in any convenient manner such as by threading the inlets and outlets and screwing therein apipe nipple, but- 1 preferably taper the sides of the inlets and outlets as will be seen particularly in Fig. 4, and provide a sleeve 6 between each two sections. These sleeves have their greatest diameter at a point substantially midway between their ends and are gradu ally reduced in diameter towards each end, the taper corresponding to the taper of the inlet and outlet openings. It will thus be seen that the weight of the parts is depended upon to keep the parts together.

Surrounding the sections 3 are a number of vertically arranged gas generating tubes or sections 7, t-heoil vapor and steam mix ture being led from the upper section 3 to the upper end ot' the first section 7. These tubes or sections '7 are alternately connected at-their upper and lower ends by lJ-bends so that the mixture is given a continuous up snail down travel until the last section 7 reached, which last section is connected with a pipe 8 which leads off the gas through the casing l to any suitable gas holder (not shown) lit The connections between the lower ends of the sections 7 form traps for the collection of mr-iterialin the oil which is not rear ily converted into gas and for the collection or": dirt, and in order that this inaterialmay be removed as desired, 1 provide each of the lower connections between the. sections 7 with an outlet to which is connected. a pipe 9 by means of which the undesirable constituents may be led off as may be necessary.

Any suitable burn r, such as 10, may be used for heating the sections 3 and 7 to generate the and after the apparatus has been in operation "for a su'liicient time, this burner may be supplied with gas from thegas holder to which the pipe 8 is connected. I

The number of sections 3 and 7 used will depend largely on the character of the. oil which is to be converted into gas.

The operation of the apparatus is as fol lows. Oil is fed into the lowermost section 3 through the pipe 11 together with acertain amount of water, which oil and water, as soon as vaporized under the action of the heat from the burner 10, travel upwardly through the upper sections 3 and then through thevertical tubes 7, becoming thoroughly mixed during said travel and suffi ciently heated to form oil gas.

From the above description it will be seen that I have devised apparatus which will satisfactorily attain the object of my invention as set out in the preamble of this spec-ification.

lVhat I claim is:

1. In oil gas making apparatus, the combination of a series of superimposed gas generator sections, each having a substantially horizontally arranged passage formed therein for the passage of fluid, the outlet of one section being in communication with the inlet of the section above it whereby fluid may flow through said sections in series; the lowermost section having a fluid inlet and the uppermost section a fluid outlet; a series of vertically arranged gas generator sections surrounding the first mentioned series of sections, said vertically arranged generating sections being connected alternately at their 7 lower and upper ends; the first of said ver-.

tically arranged sections being in communication with the outlet of the upper horizon tal section; and means for heating said horizontal and vertical sections.

2. In oil gas making apparatus, the coin- Vbination ,ot a series, of superimposed gas generator sections, each having a substantially horizontally arranged passage formed therein for the passage of fluid, the outlet of one section being in communication with the inlet of the section above it whereby fluid may flow through said sections in series; the lowermost section having a fluid inlet and the uppermost section a fluid outlet; a series of vertically arranged gas generator sections surrounding the first mentioned series of sections, said vertically artions; and means for withdrawing undesirable constituents from the lower ends of the vertically arranged sections.

3. In oil gas making apparatus, the combination of a series of superimposed gas generator sections, each having a substantially horizontally arranged passage formed therein for the passage of fluid, the outlet of one section being in communication with the inlet of the section above itwhereby the fluid may flow through said sections in series; the lowermost section having a fluid inlet and theuppermost section a fluid outlet; a series of vertically arranged gas generator sections surrounding the first mentioned series of sections, said vertically arranged generating sections being connected alternately at their lower and upper ends by U-bends; conduits leading from the U-bends at the lower ends of the vertically arranged sections, said conduits forming traps in which undesirable constituents in the fluid may be collected; the first of said vertically arranged sections being in communication with the outlet of the uppor horlzont-al section; and means for heating said horizontal and vertical sectlons.

Signed at Port Chester, N. Y., this 14 day of March, 1925.

EDYVARD CAMERON.

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