US1084691A - Acetylene-generator. - Google Patents

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Patented Jan. 20, 1914.

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lpeeiflcatton of Letters Intent.

Application filed larch 8, 1813. Serial No. 752,084.

To all wkomitmay concern: I I I Be it known that I, J IULES Amman Bourn- LoN, pitizen of the Republic of France, residing at Bazoches en Houlmes, Orne, France, have invented new and useful Improvements in Acetylene-Generators, of

-- which the followin is a specification.

This invention re ates to acetylene generators and more (particularly to acetylene generators intends for use on motor cars for su plying the headlights thereof. I

n the annexed drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of an apparatus constructed in accordance with the invention, partially broken awa Fi 2"is a plan view partly insection a ong -A Fig.1, the lids being removed. Fig. 8 is a vertical section taken approximately along B -B, Fig. 2, Fi 4: is a'vertical section a ong 6-), Fig. one of the carbid receptacles being shgwn partly inelevation, Fig. 6 is a plan view of the generator roper, the outer and one of the innerlids ing removed.

The apparatus comprises an outer rectangular casin divided into two compartments or cham ers l an 2 by a artition 8. The chambers 1 and 2 are covere at the top by lids 4 and 6, respectively. The chamber 1 contains the generator dprogier which is formed of a casing 6 divide in two parts by a vertical artition 'l and grovided with a cup shaped id 8 having han les 10 which permit of easily removing the nera or casmg 0 from the chamber 1 .of e outer casing. The casing 6 is also provided, on its under face with projections orfeet 11.

In each of the compartmentsof the casing 6 is placed a carbid receptacle 12 havingba rectangular shapeand closed at the top y a lid 18 provided with a ring 9 for the easy removal thereof. Under the lids 18, the receptacles 12 are provided withcross bars 17 which may be used as handles ferremoving the rece tacles from the casing 6. The receptacles 2 have also rejections or feet at the bottom and t e side walls thereof are provided with holes 18 through which water having entered the compartments of the casing 6 can reach the carbid containedin the rece tacles 12. The water feed is regulated in t e following wag: In the middle of the generator casing 6 t e partition,7-formsa vert1cal cylinder 18..(F1 4 audit). through which attends a. sleeve 1 secured to, or. te al'w1th,.the'-bottom of the casingfl. T s nterior of said sleeve 19 is in communication with the water contained in the chamber 1 outside the casing 6 through a hole 23 in the bottom of the said casing. The hole 28 may be closed from the top by means of a needle valve 20 having a pointed end 22 which extends through the ole 28 and carrying at its upper end a hand wheel 21. The valve 20 is tn'eaded at its u per part and screwed through a nut 24 w 1011 is ermanentl screwed into the upper end of t e sleeve 1 which latter is externally threaded and receives a nut 25 by means of which the lid 8 is held with a tight joint upon the casing 6. A metal washer 26 and a resilient washer 27 are inter osed between the nut 25 and the lid 8. he sleeve 19 has in its lower part openings 28 and the cylinder 18 has also openings 29 at various levels.

From an openingjn the lid 8, extends a gas ipe 80 which is connected through a exi le pipe 80' to a small regulatm valve 81 mounted on a condensating cham er 82 to which the acetylene gas formed is led and in which it leaves the moisture carried therewith. The condensating chamber 32 is formed of a cylindrical casing secured on a side wall of t e outer casing 2 by means of a strap 88 and closed at the top by means of an internally threaded cap 34. At its lower end, it is provided with a drain openin closed by means of a flexible washer and a readed cap 85. I

The upper part of the condensatmg chamber 82 is connected by a metal pipe 36 (Fig. 8% and a flexible pipe 37 to a metallic pi e 8 secured to the urifier, the pi e 88 branc ing into two ar s 80 which ex end into the lower parts 0 the two cylinders 40 forming the urifier. Both cfylinders 40 are locate in t e chamber 2 o the outer casing and closed at the top by an internally threaded cap 41, a flexible washer 42 being interposed to make a tight joint. In the c linders 40, above the branches 89 is locate a filtering screen by means of which the gas is physicall purified and upon whie substances per orming a chemical purification are located. The filtering screen is formed of a pirforated plate 48 which carries a plate havin finer perforations, and a felt disk 46. pon thefiltering screen I place any suitable chemical substances, well known in the art, which are adapted to chemically par: and cleanse the formed gas. The cylin era 40 of the purifier are carried on Patented Jan. 20, 1914. a

-necte pluralit springs 46 to avoid the purifying substances being rammed or clog against the filtering screen by the shoe s or jerks imparted to the motor car body carrying the acety-.

lene generator. The cylinders 40 are contogether at their upper part by a pipe 47 from which extends a pipe 48 connected to a flexible pipe 49 which extends through the wall of the casing 2 as shown in F1 2 and is in eommunioation'with the bee li hts of the motor car.

a operation, water is poured into the chamber 1; when the valve 20 is raised, the water enters the sleeve 19 and flows through the openin 28 into the annular smce between the s eevc 19 and the cylindrical wall 18. The water rises in said annular space up to the lower opening 29, flows into the correspondin compartment of the casing (l, and rises in he corresponding receptacle 18 through the openings 16 in the same. As the opening 29 leading the water to the other carbid receptacle is on a higher level than that just re erred to, the water will react on the carbid in the latter receptacle only when the carbid in the first rece taele has been exhausted. As the water in the compartment of the casin 6 comes into contact with the carbid throug the holes 16 slowly) and pro ssively, the rising of the water eing chec ed by the pressure of the gas, the gas is generated in a quantit corres ondin to the consumption thereo and t e an den production of a considerable amount of gas, which would be dangerous, is entirely avoided. The as escaping from the generator proper is ed through the pipes 80, 80' to the condensator B2 cooled by the outer air, whereby the gas is freed from its moisture. The as passes then through the purifying cham rs 40 where it is submitted to a physical and a chemical urification. The gas so treated is quite wel adapted for immediate use.

Various details may obviously be modified in the construction shown without departing from the scope of my claims.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Lettcrls lkatent is; to b d i n ace one s ncra r, em 0 n therein an oiiter a ing divided into a phi rality pf compartments of which one forms a liquid chamber, a carbid container embodym an orifieed casing directly within the suit liquid chamber and'containing a of carbid receiving chambers, means or controlling the orifice in said last named casin where varyin quantities of liquid are a mitted rom sai liquid champer to said carbid container, a partition within said orificed casing having means'in different horizontal planes whereby liquid 'is admitted to the carbid receiving chambers from the orificed cas ng at different times,

and means for conducting the gas out of the generator.

2. An acetylene gas generator, embodying therein an outer casing divided into a plurality of compartments of which one forms a liquid chamber, a carbid container embodyin an orificed casing directly witlnn the sai liquid chamber and containing a pluralit of carbid receiving chambers, means or controlling the orifice in said last named casing whereby varying quantities of liquid are admitted from said liquid chamber to said carbid container, means in a compartment adjacent said liquid chamber for purifying the gas, a partition within said orificed casing havin means in different horizontal planes wiercby liquid is admitted to the carbid receiving chambers from the orificed casing at different times, and means-for conducting the gas out of the generator.

8. An acetylene gas generator, embodying therein an outer casing divided into a pinrality of com artments of which one forms a liquid cham er, an orificed casing directl within said liqgrd chamber a plurality of erforated car id receptacles within said ast named casing. means for controlling the orifice in said orificed casing, a partition between said receptacle having openings therein in different horizontal (planes whereby liquid is admitted from sai orificed easing into said perforated carbid receptacles at different times, and means for conducting the gas out of the generator.

4. An acetylene gas generator embodying therein an outer cas ng divided into a plurality of compartments of which one orms a liquid chamber, an orificcd casing directly within said li uid chamber, a plurality of perforated car id receptacles within said last named casing, means for controlling the orifice in said orificed casin whereby liquid is admitted from said liquid chamber into said orificed casing, a partition between said receptacles having means therein at dit i'crent horizontal lanes for admittm liquid at different times to said rece tae es, means in a compartment adjacent tiie liquid chamber for purifyin the gas generated in said carbid rece tac es, and means for conducting the puri. ed gas out of the generator.

5. In an acetylene aerator, in combination, an outer casing c ivided into two ehamrs, an inner casing in one of the chambers, divided ipto two compartments, a carbid rcceptacle m each compartment, the walls of said receptacles having holes arran ed one above the other, a central sleeve in said chamber, means for regulating the flow of water from the said chamber into the central sleeve, the sleeve having holes in its lower part, a cylinder around said sleeve, said cylinder having an opening running into one 1o ing screens for stunning.

of the compartments and another opening on a hlgher level than the former, running mute the othereompertment, e. moasture condensetor formed'of a hollow cylinder in com- ;nunieetion' with-the inner eesmg, purifiers 1n the other chamber of the outer casing, communicating at one end with the moisture condensator, and at the other end with the utilizing apparatus, said. punfiers contemhe gas and substances capable of chenueally removing the impurities of the and means for resilient y sup orting t e purifiers in the outer casing, su stantlall as described and for the purpose set tort In testimony whereof I have slgned my name to this speeifieetlon in the presence of two subseribin witnesses.

J ULE ADRIEN BOUILLON.

Witnesses:

Lome Moses Henson 0. xx.

00pm 0! this ntent my be ebtstned ter in cents seek, by ennui the commissioner of retents,

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