US1036037A - Oil-burner. - Google Patents

Description

W. J. VONDRACEK & C. C. SLAPNICKA. OIL BURNER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 27, 1911.

1 ,036,037. Patented Aug. 20,1912.

IN V E N T0165 II/I'INESSES find/Wu? 9,

UNITED s ra'r a s PATENT OFFICE.

WESLEY J. VOIIDBACZEIK AND CYRIL C. SLAP'NICKA, 0F CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.

OIL-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Yatent. Patented Aug. 20, 1912.

Application filed November 27, 1911. Serial No. 662,710.

end with an annular flange 15 which rests upon the bottom of the outer shell or casing 6 and forms a support for the cylindrical To all whom it may concern:

hat we, WESLEY J. Von- Be it known t DRACEK and Cram C. SLAPNICKA, citizens of the United States of America, residing at casing 14, the latter extending some distance Cedar Rapids, in the county of Linn an below the bottom 10, and provided in its State of Iowa, have invented certain new lower end with a valve 16 of any approved and useful Improvements in Oil-Burners, construction, by means of which the admisof which the following is a specification, retsion of air into the cylindrical casing 14 is erence being had therein to the accompanyregulated and controlled. ing drawing. The cylindrical casing 14 carries a dish- This invention relates to certain new and haped casing 17 which provides the oil useful improvements in oil burners, an hamber, which chamber is preferably promore particularl to a kerosene burner that vided with a packing or filling 18 which in can be attached to an ordinary cook stove practice we have generally made in the form or range, but which in principle is also of steel shavings, though any other suitable applicable to heaters and furnaces. packing may, it is evident, be employed. The invention has or its object to pro- The top 19 of the casin 17 is provided with vide a burner of this type in which nove an annular depressed @ortion 20 constitutand efiective means are provided for obtaining a pan, and in which is placed a wick 21 ing a proper mixture of the air and gas to The said top is also provide with outlets obtain perfect combustion, and in which 22, as many of which may be provide a means is provided for admitting a current desired, and which are arranged urcum of air from the exterior to the combustion ferentially on the top at a point close to the chamber to increase the intensity 0 the cylindrical casing 14:. o flame. The cylindrical casing 14 is provided near A ractical embodiment of our invention its upper end, at a point directly above the is illustrated in the accompanying drawing top 19 of the casing 17 with a plurality of which shows a central vertical sectional view air outlet ports 3, establishing communicaof an oil burner constructed in accordance tion between the chamber in the cylindrical 5 with our invention, and in describing the casing 1 and the carbureting chamber 2 invention in detail, reference will be had to located around the upper en of the casing said drawing, like numerals being use 14. This carbureting hamber 24 is prothroughout the description to designate like vided by means of an inverted cup-shaped parts in the drawing. shell 25 which rests upon the casing 17 an An embodiment of the invention involves is rovided in its top with a central opening the provision of a main combustion cham- 26 leading to the mixing chamber 27, the lather 5 inclosed by a casing 6 which may be ter being formed by an inverted cup-shaped castintegral with a hot plate, cover or ring shell 28 that is supported on a ledge 29 o 7, and which is provided with an annular the shell 25, and which shell 28 is provided seat 8 for the reception of a circular pl'ate adjacent its lower end with a plurality of or lid 9. In aractice, the hot plate or ring outlet ports 30 establishing communication is provided with supplemental rings so that between the mixing chamber 27 and the comthe burner may be adapted to any sized bustion chamber 5. 0 ening in a stove, but as the provision of Oil is fed to the oil chamber within the such supplemental rings form no par of casing 17 through a supply pipe 31 led in the invention, the same has not been shown through the side wall of shell 6 and in in the drawings. through the bottom of the shell 17, the sup- The outer shell or casing 6 is provided ly pipe leading to a suitably located source centrally of its bottom 10 with an aperture of supply (not shown) and controlled by a 11, and is provided in its wall at a poin valve arranged at any suitable point in the adjacentthe bottom, with a plurality of supply pipe, said valve also not being shown. flame outlet openings 12. as many of which Centrally of the lid or cover 9 is a ema be provided as may be desired. Mountpressed portion 32 on which is mounted a d in the opening ll and extending uprotatable controllin valve 33 by means of wardly into the combustion chamber 5 is a which the air admitted to the combustion cylindrical casing 14 provided near its lower chamber may be regulated and controlled.

The depressed portion of the lid or cover 9 and the valve 33 carried thereby fit over the upper end of a central rod 34 which turns in said depressed portion 32 and the fully so as to admit the desired amount of air to effect perfect combustion. described our wh new and desire Letters Patent is 1. In an oil burner, a ring carrying a depending outer shell and having a seat at the upper edge of said shell, a lid or cover seat and having a depressed central portion provided with an openin a valve controlling said opening, a cylin riinvention, to secure by valve may be operated other if desired.

In operation, the burner or range in place of the ordinary covers, and when it is desired to light the burner, the valve (not shown) in the supply pipe is opened, admitting oil through the pipe 31 to the o l chamber within the cas1ng l7, the

wick lighted, and the The burning he oil' from t heats the oil within the chamber or casing 17 so that the oil is vaporized and the vapor passes up through perforations 22 and meets with a current of air entering through the lower end of casing 14 and passes into chamber 24 through openings or ports 23. Thus the air and vapor meet and mix in chamber 24 and the mixture passes up through openface provided said top face provided with outlets arranged around the cylindrical casing, two superposed shells supported on the top of said mg 26 and is further mixed within chamsecond named casing, a lid supported within ber 27, escaping therefrom through opensai ring and having an air inlet, a valve ings or ports 30 and is ignited in the comfor controlling said inlet, a valve for conbustion chamber 5. 11 upper current of air trolling the inlet of air to said cylindrical casing, and means connecting said valves whereby they may be operated in unison.

3. In an Oll burner, a ring having a de- 18 introduced through the openings in valve and gas as it comes through perforations 30 pending outer shell, a cylindrical casing and causes it to be burned Wit an intense mounted in the bottom of said shell, a casheat. The flame passes downward in the ing surrounding said cylindrical casing and combustion chamber 5 and out through the perforations or openings 12, and combustion is completed outside of the chamber 5. As stated, in starting, the oil is admitted to saturate the Wick, which is then lighted, and this in turn ignites the vapor as it begins to form, and as the oil in the wick is burned and the flame goes out, the valve shown) in the supply pipe is casing aving a thereof and also top, two superposed casings supported by lindrical casing, and connected valves controlling the admission of air to the outer shell and to the cylindrical casing.

pan f alcllmits oil tt; thfl hleatedI Oll chamber withln tures in the presence of two witnesses t e casing 1 an t is oi instant yvaporizes and passes through the mixing chamber to the combustion chamber. The valves 16 and J 33 regulate the air supply, being but slightly lVitnesses:

opened when a small flame is desired, and JOHN M. ELY,

where a large flame is desired, being opened FRANK C. WELCH.

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