US109148A - Improvement in apparatus for carbureting air - Google Patents

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gltten itat JACOB D. SPANGL-OF DAYTON, OHIO.

Letters Patent No.v 109,148, dated November 8, 1870.

IMPRVEMENT I N APPARATUS FOR CARBURETING AIR.'

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

ToA all whom Vit may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB 'D. SPAL'G, of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery, and in the State ot' Ollio, have invented some new and useful Improvements in Contrivances for Generating Gas; and I do hereby-declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, references being had to the accompanying drawing making a part ot' this specification, in which- Figure 'l is an elevation of'niy improved contrivance, showing the-tank which contains the material to be converted into gas, and in which the gas is purified, the 'coil of pipe in which the material'is heated, the tank for containing the supply oi' oil, the fan or pump for supplying the air, and the pipes for connecting the parts to each other. y

Figure 2 is a plan View, with a portion of the cone broken away, so as to show the arrangement ot` the sponge-chamber.

Figure 3 is a sectional elevation on lintI X X of Figure 4 is a sectional elevation of' the fan or pump forsupplyiug air, showing its interior arrangements.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the rotating portion ot' the fan or pump. u Y

Figure (l is an elevation ofthe vessel, whicn is placed inside of the gasometer, and which contains the sponge-chamber'and gasreserv oir.

Corresponding let-ters refer to eorrcspoinling parts in the several figures.

This invention is intended asan important improvement upon the gaslnacliiucs patented to Andrew R. Spang and Daniel F Sheaf, Septemberlst, 1869, and that of Daniel' li. Shea, ot January 7th, 1865; and

It consists in a' pump for i'orcing air into the generator, and in the combination and arrangement of some ot' the parts of which the contrivance is composed, as will be more fully explained hereinafter.

To enable those skilled in` the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A in the drawing refers to a tank, which is to containgasoline, or other hydrocarbon oils. It may be of any desired site, and is to be so placed that its contents will liow into the oilreservoir in the gasometer B, through a pipe arranged for that purpose, said gasoinctcr consisting oi' a cylindrical vessel, ot' any suitable diameter or length, it being provided with the usual movable conc B', as shown in iig. 3, said portion chambers, O, C2, and D, the two first i'or containing and giving direction to the gas, and the last forcontaining sponge, for aiding the vaporization of the oil;

All ot' the above-named parts are similar in their construction and arrangement to those in the parts above referred to, except that the lower portion ot vessel C is provided with a series of perforations around its lower end, for the passage of the gasoline from its interior t0 the chambers upon its sides, and,

this feature is the only one claimed in this ca se, it is not regarded as necessary to give a more minute description of 'them here.

ll in the drawing refers to an air-pump oiv novelconstruction, and which forms aportion et' Inyinvention.

lt consists eta cylindrical vessel, of thc required lengthaud diameter, it being supplied with heads, iitting air and water-tight to its ends.

One of the heads of this cylinder is supplied with two try-cocks, (t a, placed at diiierent heights, for the purpose of determining the height of the water in the ease.

Within this ease is placed a revolving hollow cylindex', one end ot which is provided with a head, which is divided into four or more parts, one portion Vot each ot' thc sections being bent inward, so as to give somewhat the appearance of a propelling-wheel,

or so as to leave passages ot' the air to the interior oi the cylinder, as shown in lig. 5.

This other end of this cylinder is, provided with a tight head, except that it has an apertureat its center for the escape ot' the air, which is drawn in at its opposite end. This cylinder is supplied with a shaft, which hasI its bearings in the heads of the outer cylinder or c sing-said shaft heilig provided with a-.pulley, overwhich a holt passes, tor the purpose ot' rotating it.

ln order that the outer case may be partially filled with water, for the purpose of being converted into spray, to be mingled with the air bcfore`such air is impregnated with the vapor of the gasoline or oil, there is placed around the shaft of the air pump a socket, E2, as shown in iir. 4, it having upon its outer end a reservoir. or chamber, which rises above the water, and, being made water-tight, prevents any water from entering the interior of vessel or cylinder F` The operation of this part oi the pump is as follows:

The cylinder El being rapidly rotated by means of the belt passing over a pulley upon the outer end ot' its shaft, air is driven in through an opening in the outer case, which, owing to the form of the open head of the cylinder enters it, and is expelled through the space around the socket E2, from whence it passes ont of the outer case through a pipe, G, through which it is conveyed to the oil-reservoir, it having been charged with the vapor of the Water in the ease E of the pump.

H refers to a pipe which enters the chamber D, which contains the sponge, at a point justbelow where the flange upon vessel (lf divides the oil from the gasehainber, from 'which point it extends outward and downward, as shown in fig. l, to apointnealtthelower end of the gasoline-chamber, where it is formed into a coil, and from which itis carried back to, and made to enter the oil-chamber near its bottom, the object of this particular arrangement of the pipe being that the heavy portions of the gasoline or oil shall enter the pipe lirst, and thus he converted into gas, for which' purpose there is provided a pipe, 112,. which leads from the outlet-pipe for gas, lwhich extends to and has a burner in its` outer end and directly under the coil, so that the heat arising from the gas burnedab that point shall vaporize the material in the coil,

and cause such vapor to pass into one of the chain--` bers C, where it mingles with the air apdvapor oi water, from which point it passes up through pipes b into the gas-reservoir, from whence it 'may be taken for use through pipe Iz, or it may be caused to pass -down through pipe C into contact with the oil in the.

reservoir, and out through pipe I or Il for use.

Having t-hus described my invention,

1. The within-described pump for forcing air, which has been impregnated with the vapor of water, into the oil or gasoline-chamber of a gas-generating contrivauee, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The perforations in the lower portion of lthe gasoline or oil-chambery,substantially as and for the purposefset forth. Y

3. The arrangement of the pump E, the oil-reser voir A, and oil-chamber C, it being such that the oil is delivered tothe interior ofthe reservoir at the saine time that air is being delivered to the chamber C upon its outer surface,substantially in the manner shown.

Witnesses:

THEO. GRNICK,

Rom-:RT MeREYNoLns.

What I claim, anddesire to secure by Letters Pati Intestimony whereof, I have signed my name to

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