FR2694014A1 - Fuel for spirit lamps - gives coloured flame with insect repellent properties if required - Google Patents

Abstract

Fuel for a spirit lamp having one or more wicks soaking in one or more reservoirs, produces on burning, a coloured flame and a desired scent and is, if required, an insect repellant. The fuel is methanol or ethanol with, as co-solvents, 6-10C alcohols (mainly 6,8, and 10C), with odorant essences, and colouring organo-metallic elements, including boron. Pref. the colouring agents are pref. derivs. of lithium, boron, copper, strontium, antimony, and calcium. A pref. compsn. comprises methanol, in which is dissolved 0.5 - 3% boric acid or 0.5 - 5% lithium, strontium, calcium, or copper hydroxide, sulphide, chloride or nitrate, chloral hydrate, 0.5 - 5% hexanol, octanol, or decanol. This may be complemented with ethanol contg. odorous essences. ADVANTAGE - The flame produced combines aesthetic appeal with practical use.

Description

DESCRIPTION:
The present invention is intended primarily to accompany the invention (simultaneous) of an alcohol lamp (s) and around it, two flames u several if there are several devices. lees or not), simultaneous and complementary, allowing the juxtaposition of two induced effects: The deodorant and insect'repellent-aroma burner (anti-mosquito) and the colored flame of chosen and varied color (s), even composed (s): it is the recommended fuel, preferably
At all times, man has sought to use his senses for his pleasure. Sometimes he has extrapolated to his religious convictions. was concerned about the environment for its health and defined this concern by the concept of ecology Playfulness is, then, entered the manners, by the door of the conscious has environmental tendency, with the health, that of today tomorrow, and then of future generations: children and their descendants.

On the religious plan and for example non-limiting, it will be understood well, include the association of incense (oum, in Arabic) and the green flame semi-sacred for the prayer of the Muslim. In terms of beliefs, green is supposed to bring good luck. At the cultural level, with moral connotarion. it represents chlorophyll, so nature, so allergy to pollution of all kinds, in a word: ecology @ The return to the garden of Eden !.

 The state of the art allows to shine any gasoline partum, but the essences cause a yellow flame of carbon molecules, mono- and ciioxydes, unburned. Of course, the catalyzed burners do not have this disadvantage incompatible with the flames of various colors and chosen, since they do not generate flames at all, at least apparent.

The state of the art also makes it possible to produce colored flames, mainly using a solvent, preferably alcohol, and having the least amount of carbon possible, for example methanol. This will be an ideal solvent for salts and other elements. organic metals, such as lithium. bores, brass, strontium, antimony, calcium, etc. It is therefore possible, in the current state of the art, to burn in a lamp with or without a wick, a methanol in which is dissolved a cupric chloride which will produce a green flame in said methanol, and even blue, if one adds one or two halogenated hydrocarbons. A chloride, a nitrate, a lithium hydroxide
(red) or strontium (orange, but more difficult to dissolve, the chloride apart), a trichloride or sulfide (tri-sulfide) antimony (white) ..., will produce dissolved in a methanol a very beautiful flame colorful. The state of the art even makes it possible to add a gasoline, a hydrocarbon, to dissolve it in methanol by means of a cosolvent, preferably a higher alcohol. Thus, the methanol, in sufficient proportions, will discolor the yellow of the flame caused by the carbon monoxide and unburned dioxide, while coloring said flame, with the color (or colors) of the cation or cations in solution therein.

Only all this is not industrializable and difficult to market in the general public, and minors in particular, because of the classification of the aforementioned products, by the rules, regulations, decrees and other official limitations @.

The advantage of the present invention resides primarily in the fact that it makes it possible to produce, in a specially designed and patented alcohol lamp simultaneously with the present invention, both the desired scent, with the desired flame rider (s), adding the odor absorption and eloicinement of unwanted insects around the lamp in question, without violating the most recent regulations. Separate, to begin with, the flame of green color, other colors: it is the most important.And more, it is obtained starting from the boric acid in solution between 0,5 and 12% in weight in methanol then ethanol in the prescribed proportions. Other chemical forms of boron produce evaporation as a. combustion, a deposit that is not desirable, but they remain "possible". If the regulation allows 100% methanol, on wick or without, it will be sufficient from 0.5% to 3% boric acid, by weight. If only 20% methanol (and probably 80% less boric acid, ethanol) is used, the dose of boric acid will have to be doubled. For 4 to 5% by weight of methanol, double again, 8.5% boric acid representing the ideal dosage. We will subtract weight / solvents / alcohols, the weight of higher alcohols, ie 0.5 to 5% of C6-Hexane (see above) and 0.5 to 5% of C8 or C10 (see also above). Exactly the same dosages apply to lithium or strontium hydroxide (red-orange), sulphide (tri-sulture) or antimony trichloride (white). As for the blue. 0.5 to 5. of cuprous or cupric chlorides (the latter more soluble), to a solution in what is right of methanol, then add 0.5 to 5% of chloral hydrate (C2H3Cl3O2), or any other product of the same class, by C2H3ClO example, C4H3ClO2 C2H4ClNO,
C2H3ClO2. C3H5ClO. C2H2Cl2O.Si, in the absence of a wick lamp, it is desired to produce a blue flame in a gas (for example in a gas lighter). a gaseous hydrocarbon, a gaseous ether with, in solution under pressure or cold, a cupric chloride and 0.5 to 5% of chlorine, Cl 2, preferably in addition to the other products mentioned above, will be added to a gaseous hydrocarbon.

The present invention solves the problem of the small amount of methanol allowed, compared with the amount of ethanol, by more or less doubling the dose of dyes each one is increased from 10 to 20% and then to 4 or 5% of methanol, in the solution Regardless of presence, preferably minimal. higher alcohols or odorous, strongly carbonaceous species. || is to be noted and it is claimed that in the proportions indicated, in most cases (sau @ antimony and sodium). two or three colors will be mixed in a single flame, replacing the mono-dye by two or three colors in a single flame, replacing the mono-dye by three or three in equal proportions or pro-rata. proportion of compound flame colors we wish to obtain
Note finally that the section (diameter) of the wick used. It plays in the quality of the color obtained with little methanol and especially that plays the section (diameter) of the orifices of vapor tension surrounding said wick. in the lamp deposited simultaneously with the present invention, which is the recommended fuel. Indeed, the vapor tension does not drain the carbon molecules like a wick, since vaporization does not equal capillarity. Let's signal and claim. finally, the proportion of organometallic elements, including boron, dyes, which must be inversely proportional to the alkalinity: too much antimony or boron does not matter.

Too much lithium, calcium strontium or even barium clogs the wick by depositing oxide on its surface. Reference is made to Mendeleyev's table for this purpose, by reducing the doses of dyes from the right to the left of the table.

Claims (7)

CLAIMS: 1) Fuel for lamp called "alcohol" wick (s) dipping in a (s) tank (s), characterized in that it produces burning a colored flame, a desired scent and it is so l we want, repeller of insects.  X General composition of said fuel according to claim 1, characterized in that it will comprise more alcohols of metholol and ethanol type, with cosolvents higher alcohols of classes C6 to C10 = mainly C6, C8 and C10 With, also and optionally, odorous essences in solution thanks to cosoivants. With organo-metallic dyes, including bores.  3) Addition to the composition of the combusllble, according to claims nl &# 2. characterized in that one will add at will the higher alcohols (octanols, decanols, camphorated alcohols) or pine / pinene essences, or any other odorous essence, anti-odor, anti-insect, in a proportion of 0.001 to 5% by weight or by volume, simply by deducing the corresponding weight or volume, fuel compositions claimed in the context of the present invention. 4) Composition of the fuel according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that if one has 100% methanol, it will dissolve 0.5 to 3% boric acid, or 0.5 to 5% d hydroxide, sutfide, chloride, lithium nitrate, strontium, calcium, copper 1 & BR <2, chloral hydrate or its class neighbors for blue with CuCl2, by weight, 0.5 to 5% C6 hexanol and neighbors, or C8, C10 and neighbors. And the complement, preferably in ethanol, with, if desired, a species of the desired scent (0.01 to 2% maximum). 100% 5) Composition of the fuel according to claims 1, 2 and 4. characterized in that if one has 20% of methanol, the organo metal dye doses will be doubled, therefore, for the flame blue, chloral hydrate or its class neighbors. The dosages of higher alcohols and essences will not be changed and the whole will be completed to keep 100% with, preferably, ethanol. 6) Composition of the fuel according to claims 1,2, 4 & 5, corectérisée in that if one dispémementement dispémenlairement only about 4 to 5% of methanol, one will double the closes of organa-metablic colors, bores included including the blue flame with chloral hydrate or its class neighbors. The doses of higher alcohols and essences will not be changed and the total will be added to make 100%, preferably with ethanol. 7) Composition for producing blue flames, according to claims 1, 2, 4. 5 & 6, characterized in that for a liquid fuel for producing a blue flame, it is necessary to start from CuCl2 and make it turn blue, using chloral hydrate or its class or general composition neighbors, and for a gaseous fuel, or one of its products, or a single product of the chlorine Cl2 type, at 0.5 / 5% by weight, preferably, dissolved cold or under pressure in said gas. 8) composition for the white flame according to claims n 1 & 2, characterized in that an antimony, rubidium, lead or zinc and preferably a trichloride or sulfide (tri-sulfide) antimony. 0.5 / 6% by weight in at least 50% of methanol, supplemented with the higher alcohols and gasolines described in claims 4, 5 and 6, allows a pure white flame: below about 50% of methanol, the complement / solvent, for example ethanol produces too much white flame and is a) disadvised.The color compositions based on white, plus one or more others, are characterized by a disappearance of said, progressive, in favor of white, which must be taken into account, when determining the proportions of fuel described and claimed here. 9) Adding a dose of ether or ester according to any one of the preceding claims to the fuels described above, characterized in that the double-combustion wick lamp bonded by simultaneous deposition to the present invention, allows a double-combustion: capillarity by the wick, combustion of the gas develops by the vapor pressure guided to the wick flame for nearby combustion and mixed with lalite and, therefore, an addition of ether or ester very volatile and which goes into solution in the fuels claimed in claims 1, 2,3,4,5,6,7 & 8, will substantially increase the volatility of the fuel and hence its vaporizing power and is therefore claimed here as such. Dosage: 1 to 10% by weight, deduction of the additional light solvent of methanol, ethanol for example. 10) introduction of the dyes and their solid additions according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that they can be pelletized. for example, with or without an effervescent product helping to dilute them. If necessary, they will be introduced into the fuel container, before or after the liquid parts thereof, for solution with, preferably, stirring before use. Also characterized in that the white, requiring a lot of methanol, can be completed at the fuel level, by adding said methanol, avent empioi: in this case, the place (in weight or volume) of said methanol, is provided in said fuel for preparing this introduction a posteriori:: noncomplete fuel, and complementary doses, solid or liquid, are claimed in the context of the present invention 11) Composition of the fuel according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that that in the proportions indicated, the quantity of dyes (cations causing the color according to their uncle length in the spectrum) will be reduced by 5% by 4 columns of the Mendeleyev table of the chemical universe, in direct relation with alkalinity: that is to say, roughly, i, 5 times less lithium or stronllum and 2 laws less than boron.