US102169A - Improvement in vapor-burners - Google Patents

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SMITH & RICE.

Vapor Burner.

Patented April 19, 1870.

Nvo-102369.

f' MM@ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

CHARLES E. SMITH AND HENRY J. RICE, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN VAPOR-BURNERS.

Speciiicatiou forming part of Letters Patent No. 102,169, dated April 19, 1870.

To all whom, it may concern,.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES E. SMITH and HENRY J. RICE, both of Columbus, in the State of Ohio, have jointly invented certain Improvements in Vapor-Burners; and we do hereby declare that the following, taken in .connection with the drawings which accomrangement and construction of the parts that all the gas is generated from a generatingchamber located remotely from the burner and from the holes for admitting atmospheric air by means of a special jet and without aid from the heat of the illuminating-burner; in a provision for regulating the flame and at the same time and by the same action regulating the supply of oxygen from the atmosphere,

and in the position, construction, and means for regulating the generating-jet.

Figure 1 represents avapor-generatin g burner with our improvements, the parts being shown partially in section. Fig. 2 represents a modification of the burner and adjacent parts. Fig. 3 is a top view of the tube and the outletopening in said top.

A is the reservoir for oil or other gas-generatin g fluid, and which, by reason of the novelties of .our hereinafter-named devices, it is found practicable to locate in a plane much below that of the plane of the main burner, thereby diminishing greatly the risk of accidents, inasmuch` as the liquid can never rise a to the level of the plane, as it could (if unobstructed) in all the usual vapor-burners whose reservoirs are much higher than the burner.

B is the pipe, descending from the reservoir; C, a stop-cock therein; D, awick-tube forming, when connected with the other portions, a continuous part thereof, but filled with wicking or other appropriate absorbent, which,

while it will arrest the onward flow of the liquid, will yet hold enough to allow the generation in the generating-chamber E of all the gas required.

F is a thin partition, across the tubeat the forward end of the generating-chamber, and having in its center a small needle-hole as an outlet for the gas as the same is generated.

G is asmall pipe, which we call a jet-pipe. It passes out from the under side of the generating-chamber, and both ends of it communicate therewith, and at about its center, on its upper side, is a minute heating or generating jet, H, the function o f which is to rapidly create gas, its position eminently fitting it for this'duty, as the llame or heat from it rises directly u nder, impinges upon, and runs up around both sides ofthe generating-chamber. At the same time the rapid expansion causes the gas as it is evolved to be driven in a lively current up the pipe toward the distant burner with much the same effect as gas rises under the pressure of ordinary gas-works. In the jet-pipe G, I place a thumb-screw, I, or some equivalent device, for the purpose of regulating at option the jet in the pipe, or of cutting it entirely off.

The top of the tube upon which the burner is to be applied is closed by a partition, J, which has a small central hole, K, (see Fig. 3,) to receive a pointed tapering valve, L, afxed toa cross-piece, M, in the burner. The burner N is arranged, as shown, to screw upon the top:of the gas-holder tube, and is provided, as seen in the drawings, with openings O, to admit atmospheric air for the supply of oxygen, these holes being near the bottom of the burner. By this provision, in connection with the valve, the screwing down of the burner toward the tube tends to close or partially close gradually the valve-opening, and at the same time and in the same degree to close or partially close the openings O, by which means the supply of oxygen is increased or lessened to meet the demand for it. By closing the valve-hole entirely the light may be eX- tinguished and the gas cut off. By turning the screw up or down the flame may be put 'high or low with as much facility as by anl ordinary cock, the ring P serving as a handle forthis purpose. By closing the valve when the jet H is first lighted the vapor sufficient for illuminating purposes will be generated more quickly thanby'any other burners known e realice to us, for the reason that the valve cuts off any escape ol gas during the process of heating.

Instead of screwing the burner upon the tube, as shown, the tube may be screwed upon the burner; or a sleeve, Q, may surround the end of either, the otherbcing adapted to screw into or upon it, all as shown in Fig. 2. In this gure the cross-piece to which the tapering valve is secured is shown in cross-section. The principle of action is the same in both figures, the differences shown relating only to details.

By means of our construction no unsightly or cumbrous appliances are placed upon the burner for the purpose of generating; but the burner and the pipe Q, leading from it back to the generatingchamber, (which latter may be iive feet or so distant from the burner,) present the appearance of the ordinary gas pipes and burners.

By reason of the small needle-hole in partition F, in connection with the long tube Q, between it and the burner and thc large oxygen-'holes O 0, and the provision for enlarging or diminishing thc supply of oxygen, we can chamber having aI needle-hole orifice commu` nicating with a long conducting-pipe which connects such chamber with the burner, substantially as shown and described.

2. rlhe combination of the tube Q with the burner and its openings O and valve, substantially as and for the purposes described.

CHAS. E. SMITH. HENRY J. RICE. W/Titnesscs:

H. C. HELMICK, (3.19. h'r'rnnsoN.

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