US1068288A - Vaporizing apparatus. - Google Patents

Description

G. A. WALDEGK.

VAPORIZING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 13, 1912..

1,068,288. Patented July 22, 1913.

CHARLES ALFRED "WALDECK, O13 BALTIMORE, llflARYLAND.

Specification of Letters ?atent.

VAPORIZING APPARATUS.

Ii'i'tented July 22, 1913.

Application filed September 13, 1912. Serial No. 720,225.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES Armani) lVALoncK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented new and useful Improvements in vaporizing Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a vaporizing apparatus, and has for its primary object to provide an apparatus of this character wherein medicaments can be placed for the vaporization thereof, whereby the vapor may issue into a room or other inclosure for the treatment of pulmonary troubles on the inhalation of the mixed air and vapor when present therein.

Another object of the invention is the provision of an apparatus of this character wherein the chemicals used may be conveniently heated for the vaporization of the same, and also mixed with forced air, so that the mixture will spray into a room or inclosure for deodorizing or disinfecting the same, as well as enabling the treatment of certain diseases by the inhalation of the permeated air therein.

A further objectof the invention is the provision of an apparatus of this character which is simple in construction, reliable and eflicient in. its operation, and inexpensive in manufacture.

lVith these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

Iln the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of an apparatus constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view thereof. Fig. 8 is a sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, the apparatus comprises a base 5, from which rise spaced vertical posts or uprights 6, in which is journaled a rotatable shaft 7, the same being formed with a crank 8 having loosely connected thereto a reciprocatory piston rod 9, working within a cylinder 10 of an ordinary air pump, the cylinder being provided at its lower end with a fork or yoke ll, having its ends pivoted at 12 to a ii-shaped bearing l3, which is fixed to the base 5, in any suitable manner. It will. be noted that when the shaft 7 is rotated. the pump cylinder 10 will oscillate so as to permit the free recim'ocation of the piston rod 9 which is control ed by the crank 8 of the said shaft and in this manner the pump is operated, the air therefrom being for a pur' pose presently described,

Arranged between the uprights (i and sul'ierposed above the base 5 is a tubiform shell or cylinder body 1d. the same carrying at opposite ends removable caps 15., while journaled in one of the uprights (S is 2 hollow outlet; pipe 10. the inner end of which fixed in the end cap '15 adjacent thereto and conununicates with the interior oi the shell or cylinder l -l. lourualed in the other upright (S is an air inlet pipe ll. the inner end of which carries a swivel socket member 18, in which is engaged a swivel head or coupling 19. the same being fixed to the outer end of a nozzle 2-0, which is fixed in the other cap 15 adjacent thereto and communicates with the cylinder 14-.

The outer end of the air inlet pipe 17 is connected with a flexible tube 21., the same being also connected with the pump cylinder 10, so that on the working of the pump air will be conveyed therefrom into the cylinder 141: for mixture with medicaments delivered thereto in a manner presently de scribed. Fixed to and rising from the base 5 is a supplemental upright or support 22 provided with a bearing 23 receiving the nozzle 20, and in this manner the end adjacent thereto of the cylinder l l is prevented from sagging or becoming out of alinement with the said nozzle.

Suitably mounted upon the base 5 directly below the cylinder 14 are spaced burners 24: from the tips 25 of which are adapted to issue flames, the same being desi ned to play upon the cylinder 14 for the heating of the contents thereof, whereby the fluid within the same will become vaporized and subsequently discharge through the pipe 16 for the issuance of the same into a room or other inclosure for the treatment of plants or the like, the burners 2d being supplied with combustible fuel through pipes 26 which are connected with any suitable source of supply.

It is of course understood that the burners may be supplied with gas, although in lieu of the burners lamps may be employed adapted for consuming alcohol, gasolene, or other oil, or electric heaters may be substituted.

Fixed to the discharge pipe 16 is a sprocket Wheel 27 over which is trained a driven sprocket chain 28, the same being also trained over a driving sprocket wheel 29, fixed to the shaft 7 so that upon the rotation of the latter, the pump will be actuated and simultaneously therewith the cylinder 1a rotated for the proper mixing of the medicaments and the compressed air therein prior to the discharge of the same through the discharge pipe 16 for the vaporization of the contents of such cylinder.

If desired the sprocket wheels 27 and 29 together with the chain 28 may be dispensed with and in lieu thereof belt and pulleys substituted.

Suitably mounted on the cylinder exteriorly thereof are cups 30 which may be of any desirable style and communicate with the cylinder 1 so that on the filling of the said cups with medicine the same may be fed into the cylinder for the mixture thereof with the compressed air delivered thereto from the pump. if desired the pump may be entirely dispensed with and in this instance the flexible tube 21 may be connected with any suitable source of compressed air supply.

On the heating of the cylinder 14, the mixture of medicine and air will become vaporized and subsequently discharge through the outlet pipe 16 to the desired point for the deodorizing, fumigating, or disinfecting of an inclosure, or for the treatment of certain diseases.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it is thought that the construction and operation of the invention will be clearly understood, and therefore, a more extended explanation has been omitted.

hat is claimed is In a vaporizing apparatus, a pair of spaced vertical uprights, an air inlet pipe stati-onarily mounted within one of said uprights, a discharge pipe rotatably mounted in the other upright in alinement with the inlet pipe, a cylinder arranged between the pipes and fixed to the rotatable outlet pipe, a nozzle rotatably connected with the inlet pipe and projected into the cylinder, a support forming a journal for the said nozzle, and a plurality of cups fixed to the cylinder and communicating with the same.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES ALFRED WVALDECK.

Witnesses:

JOHN M. \VAGNER, THOS. J. SULLIVAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C.

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