US105757A - Improvement in gas apparatus tor railroad cars - Google Patents

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J. s. W001). GAS APPARATUS FOR RAILROAD GARS &c.

No. 195,757.. Patejntgd July 26, 18 7 0.

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that contain .JosnPH s; WOOD, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELFAND JOHN J. GARBERRY, or SAME PLACE.

' LettersPatent No. 105,757, dated July 26, 187i).

IMPROVEMENT IN AS APPARATUS FOR RAILROAD CARS, 8(3.

The Schedule referred 'to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same JOSEPH S. Woon, of the city'and county of V is the inlet through which the tube Itis filled Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented with gasoline, which is afterward drawn olf through an Improved Gas Apparatus for Railroad Cars, of the plug V, leaving the sponge saturated with gasowhich the following is a specification. line.

"motion of, the V "ins a;

' TNis a. mud plug,,through-which the oxide and sed- Ii'ql nt are withdijawn.'

" From the bottom theJtauk B passes the circa- The nature of my invention, which is an improrement on my patent of April 5, 1870, No.101,558,

-co'nsist s in the construction and arrangement of the machine so as to adapt it to the illumination of railroad or city horse-cars. The machine is in three parts, the-upper one containing dilute acid, the lower one having the iron turnings, and the third being the carbureting-tube.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation,-reference being had to the accompanying drawing, inwhich- Figure 1 is a general elevation of a. railroad car, with my apparatus attached.

Figure 2 is a sectiop longitudinally through the car and machine.

Figure 3 is a cross section through the car.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal section through the carbureterr A is the railroad car, hating secured beneath it the tank B, for dilute sulphuric acid.

This tank is made broad and shallow, and has several plates, 0 O, suspended from the lid,-so as to come within aninch of the bottom.

A passage, (1, is also left for air, over the. plates,

and airholes are placed in the lid.

These plates divide the tank up into so many separate cells, E, whichprevent the liquid serging from end to end with the motion of the car.

Suiiicient opening is madein-each plate, or left beneath it, 'so that the liquid may maintain the same level inall thecells- The-tank is filled through inlet 7). Beneath this, or at a lower level, is the horizontal vessel G, about two feet in diameter and six feet long.

it has a plug or door, H, at one end, through which ,the perforated tubular basket K, which contains the a he filings; is inserted; w

' steatiied from rolling about from the by the p rated sheath Msecured {flitting pipe I, which enters the'bottom of the cylins "-jder-G, so that the dilute acid escapes from it below fthe level of the basket A stop'cock, 'p is placed in this pipe.

It is the: carhui'etiog' tube, which is 'packed with saturated wick or spongefwii p A pipe,- S, passes fr'ouilthe .to'p voi" l'he'c-ylinder G are 111610)) of the tube R; aii d-thenalong the inside, centrally terminatingiu a rose/l;

which modifications adapt the neath railroad cars, and for other analogous uses and The operation of the machine is in this manner:

The cock 1) being opened, the dilute acid descends the pipe P, and comes in contact with the iron turnings in the basket K, generating hydrogen gas, which escapes up the pipe S into the -carbureter 1i, passing out at the rose T, and backward through ad the saturated sponge, and out at the pipe X to pipes and gas-burners in the railroad car.

The machine itself regulates the quantity of gas made, by means of the circulating pipe P. As soon astoo much gas is made, the pressure forces the liquid up the pipe P into the tank B out of contact with is decreased, when it again descends. can be shut oiffwhen the machineis not in operation;

and, also, when the liquid is all in the upper tank, B,

-it may be shut oh and the liquid retained there,

while the basket K is refilled, and the sediment rei moved Thus not only is the proper pressure maintained, but the liquid in contact with the iron-turuings is being constantly changed.

I do not claim the arrangement of an aircarbnreter beneath or outside a railroad car, as that was made and used before thcdate of my inventign.

My invention relates to modifications in the apparatus for generating and carburet-inghydrogen gas,

apparatus for use heplaces.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. Constructing the cylinder G and basket K of a horizontal tubular form, so that the said basket is inserted and withdrawn from the end of the cylinder,

so as to adapt the hydrogen-gas generator to its position beneath railway cars, as herein described.

2. Thetauk B, with a series of dividing-plates, O, for the'purpose herein described.

'3. The combination and arrangement of the tank B, the horizontal cylinder G, tubular basket K, and circulating pipe I, for the purpose herein described.

4. The arrangement of the horizontal tube R, with inside pipe S, surrounded with saturated packing W, so that the hydrogen gas passes out at the end '1, and passes backward through the packing and out at pipe X, in the manner and for scribed.

. JOSEPH S. WOOD.

Witnesses .Eown. BnowN, Jos. RABY.

the purpose herein dc-

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