US1028414A - Power-generator. - Google Patents

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V. C. DE YBARRONDO. TOWER GENERATOR.

APPLICATION FILED 00120, 1909.

1,028,414. Patented June 4,1912.

V INCENT C. DE YBARRONDO, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

POWER-GENERATOR.

' PatentedJune i, 1912.

Application filed October 20, 1909. Serial No. 523,691.

To all whom/it may concern:

Be it known that I, VINCENT 0.1m vYEAR- RoNno, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles,in .the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Power-Generators, of which the following is a specification.

This lnvention relates to power generators and more partlcularly to generators of steam power; and it has for its object to,

provide means for electrically heating Water or other medium or unedia for the conversion of the same into steam or for the electrolytic dissolution of the same into volatile or gaseous pressure medium.

Theinvention has for its particular object the provision of means for electrically heating the contents of a'steam boiler to convert water therein to steam, according to the general principle of organization and function attaching to the invention constituting the subject matter of an application for Letters Patent for power generators filed by me July 22, 1909, Serial Number 508,97 9 and the particular means constituting the present invention I have devised with objects of improvement in view relating to simplicity of construction and organization, efficiency and economy in operation, convenience in control, and general enhanced serviceability, the employment of the improvements being accompanied by the and features all as hereinafter described,

shown in the drawing, and finally pointed obviation of the production of ashes and.

other by-products of the combustion of coal and other fuel.

With the above and other objects in view,

the invention consists in the novel production, construction, combination, assemblage and relative arrangement oi parts, elements out in claim. V

In the drawing Figurel is a top plan View, partly in; section and partly broken away for clcari'iess of llll.lStI'zlllOll,-Of a loco-- motlve engine and tender and part of the railway therefor, a boiler of the engine being shown as provided with steam generating means organized and applied in accordance with the invention; and Fig. 2 is a detailed transverse sectional view taken from the boiler shown in Fig- 1; said sectional view being accompanied by a diagrammatic showing of members or an electrical circuit employed in carrying out the invention. I

Corresponding parts in both figures are denoted by the same reference characters.

Referring with particularity to the drawings, A designates power generating means comprising a container a which is supplied with the medium from which the power is to be generated, and electricity supply means I; through the agency of which electric energy is produced and conducted to and passes through or'caused to act upon the medium or substance in the container at.

The container 11 is illustrated asthe boiler of v a locomotive. 'The electricity supply means '6 are illustrated as mounted upon the tender 0 of the locomotive, jointed con: ductors (1 extending between the tender and the locomotive boiler. for serving the latter with electric energy. The electric energy is produced by a generator a mounted upon the tender and operated by a motor f'shown as directly connected with the generator;

the motor being indicated as of the internal combustion type. The motor is conveniently supplied with gasolene .or. other petrol from a storage tank 9 mounted upon the tender. The I generator and motor and petrol tank may be accommodated in any suitable arrangement upon the tender in connection with the water tank h for supplying the boiler (1.

Within the boiler a are provided two electrodes is and Z respectively;- both electrodes being connected with the generator 0 through the jointed conductors d; and both electrodes beinginsulated from the remaining parts of the locomotive and its boiler. Each of the electrodes is received'at its rearward end in an insulating sleeve 3 which is secured in the rearward end'portion of the boiler; and each electrode is elongated in form, being received at its forward end in connection with an insulating prop or holder 4 rising from the lower portion of the boiler.

As shown in Fig. 2, a storage battery or batteries on may be incorporated in the elecv trical circuit which includes the generator e mounted upon either the tender or loc omo-- tive; but preferably the storage battery proper points upon the rheostat.

The operation, method of use, and ad vantages of the improved power generating means constituting the invention will be readily understood from the foregoing description taken' in connection with the accompanying drawing and the following statement :---VVlien electric energy is passed to and through the electrodes 70 and Z from the electrj pity supply means I), under control of the rheostat 0, either directly from the generator 0 or indirectly from the storage battery m, the water in the boiler a hav ing the electrodes will be electrified, and resisting the passage of the electric energy through the same, will be heated to a degree proportionate to the volt-age of the electrical current supplied. A sufficient voltage being provided, the water will be caused to boil, resulting in the generation of steam whichwill pass to the cylinders of the lo comotive and cause the operation of the latter in the usual manner. As the steam generation will be proportionate in degree to the potential ofthe 'electrical'current passed through the electrodes and the conductors at, such generation may be increased or diminished, or te minated and againinitiated at.

will, by pr determined manipulation of the rheostat 0 which may thus serve as a switch as well as a resistance agency; or, if preferred, a separate circuit maker and breaker may be employed, although the same is not illustrated in the drawing'.

The action of the electric energy in its passage through the medium, such as water, in the boiler or container at, is electrolytic in nature; and in common with the invention constituting the subject of the application hereinabove referred to, the invention comprchends broadly the utilization of any liquld or other medium within the container for the purpose of producing a gaseous or other pressure medium which may be utilized for power purposes.

It will be understood that the invention may. be practised in connection with stationary engines as well as motor or traction engines. The control of the pressure medium generation and application is, therefore, according to the invention, extremely convenient and simple, the production of ashes, smoke or other products of combustion such as attend the use of coal or other fuel being obviated. The power generator has all the advantages of an electrical motor without the expense and costs incident to the installa 'on and maintenance of the latter. But in contradistinction to the invention in the application above referred to, in its entirety, the present invention makes provision for electricity supply means upon or in connection with the locomotive or other engine, so that such steam generator, or other generator of.pressiire medium, is organized as a complete unit for the production of the pressure medium, beingthus independent of any central station or remote point of power production. In the case of a locomotive engine, the same while retaining its nature as a steam roducer and consumer is, therefore, accor in to the present invention, organized an equipped for the production and utilization of electric energy for the production of the steam, the entire mechanism, as a motor, being self-contained and unitary in respect both to the production and consumption of its propelling energy. 90

vI do not desire to be understood as limiting myself to the specific provision, construction, formation, combination, applica tion and relative arrangement of parts, members and features shown and described; but reserve the right to vary same, in adapting the invention to varying conditions of use, without departing from the spirit of the invention or the terms of the following claim. Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A traction engine including a boiler and a tender detachably connected to the boiler, 105 a pair of insulating sleeves fitted in one end of the boiler a pair of electrodes projecting into the boiler and having the outer ends thereof received within the said insulating sleeves, the said electrodes comprising rods 110 which are disposed longitudinally'with re-' spect to the boil er and having a parallel re lation to each other, insulating props su porting the free ends of the, electrodes within the boiler, means upon. the tender for 115 generating an electric current, and conductors for conveying the electric c urrent to the electrodes of the boiler. i I

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence 120 of two subscribing witnesses.

VINCENT C. on YBARRONDO.

Witnesses Finn) A. MANSFIELD,

RAYMOND I. BLAKESLEE.

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