US1144788A - Apparatus for producing gaseous fuel. - Google Patents

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F. M. BITES, DECD.

c. H. GALLAGHER. ExEcuToR. APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING GASEOUS FUEL.

APPLICATION HLED Dsc. a, 1912.

19H49? 88@ Patented June 29, 1915.

FRANCIS M. RITES, OF SLATERVILLE SPRINGS, NEW YORK; CHARLES H. GALLAGHER,

`EXECUTOR OF SAID FRANCIS M. RITES. IDECEASED,` ASSIGNOR TO PERIE BITES, OF ITHACA, NEW YORK, GUARDIAN FOR MARION IB.,y BITES.

APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING GASEOUS FUEL.l

Application filed December 3, 1912.

T0 @Z7 z/'mm if may concern Be it known that I, FRANCIS M. BITES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Slaterville Springs. in the county of Tompkins and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Producing Gaseous Fuel, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an apparatus by .which crude oil can be readily converted into a mixed combustible gas and vapor, which product is susceptible of use for burning either as a gas or for the purpose of producing power in internal combustion engines or for various purposes in the arts which require a combustible gaseous fuel, and to this end I, provide a combustion chamberA` an evaporating chamber and a mixing chamber, with supplementary devices or fixtures suitable for carrying out my process. all of which will be hereinafter fully described.

These and other objects of my invention will be fully illustrated in the. drawings. described in the specification and pointed out in the claims at the end thereof.

In the accompanying drawings. the figure is a vertical sectional elevation of the gas producer or carbureter.

In the drawings like reference numerals refer to like parts.

The apparatus by which my process is carried into elfect consists of a shell 1. On one side of this shell is an opening 2 into which extends the spraying nozzle 3. Extending into this nozzle is the feeding tube l which communicates with the chamber 5. rI`his chamber has an opening 6 therein with which communicates the supply tube 7, which supply tube communicates with the reservoir of crude oil. The opening at the end of the tube 7 is controlled by the valve 8 which in turn is operated by a float governor 9 mounted upon a bell crank lever 10 pivoted on the lug 11 and connected to the intermediate walking beam 12.

Into the chamber 5 is discharged a quantity of crude oil suiicient to close the valve. The oil flows from the chamber 5 through the tube 1 into the spraying nozzle 3 where -it is mixed with a. blast of compressed air and discharged into the chamber 13 as a fiame. Placed opposite the discharge end of the nozzle 3 is a Series of baffle plates 14,

Specification of Letters Patent. Patent-@(1 Jun@ 29, 1915.

SeriaI No. 734,793.

15 and 1G against which the ame impinges and by which it is caused to spread out, securing a more complete atomizing mixture and combustion.

It is desirable to feed an excess of fuel through the tube 4f so as to secure as far as possible the production in the chamber 13 of carbon monoxid instead of carbon dioxid, leaving any hydrogen that may be in the liquid fuel free in the product of combustion in the chamber 13 as hydrogen. The chamber 13 is surrounded on five sides by a water jacket, the various legs of which are such as are indicated at 1T. 1S and 19. The tube 2O is provided for directly connecting the steam space in the jackets 1T and 19 and this tube in turn delivers steam to the combustion chamber through the tube Q1 at the opening 22. The water space in all the jackets is connected for free circulation at the bottom and the steam space communicates around the top of the ackets. There is no discharge outlet from the water jackets other than the tube :'21 through which the steam passes. A water level is maintained in the jackets that will avoid overfiow through the steam pipe. This may be done by connecting the water supply pipe IO with the water tank l1 into which an excess of water may be discharged, the surplus of which will go out through an overiow 13. Any steam that may be formed in the water jackets during the Operation of the process in the chamber 13 will be discharged into the chamber 24. and the oxygen of the steam will be combined with the carbon of the carbon monoxid, the hydrogen passing off as free hydrogen gas. Conveniently placed in the chamber 13 is the discharge opening Q3 through which pass the products of combustion in the chamber 13, which products of combustion are carbon monoxid and hydrogen, together with whatever nitrogen may be introduced with the air. The discharge opening :23 communicates with the mixing 'chamber Q4.

when the crude oil is discharged into the chamber 5 the lighter elements are evaporated and pass off through the tubeQA and the heavier elements remain and are drawn ofi. from the bottom of the chamber-) through the tube t for fuel purposes. The lighter elements of the crude oil are discharged through the tube Q5 as vapor or gases into the top of the mixing chamber 21, where CLAPP they are mixed and maintainedfas a gas or vapor by the heat contained in the products of combustion discharged through the opening 23.

As theV process of burning or partial burning of the hydrocarbons is carried out 1n the chamber 13, the chamber 5 becomes heated and the distillation of gas and vapor 1n the chamber 5 is correspondingly carried on, so that all the lighter parts of the oil are carried over through the tube 25 into the m1X ing'chamber 24 and only the heavier parts of the oil are drawn off through the tube 4 -to be burned or partially burned in the chamber 13 for the purpose of producing heat and permanent gas. The products `from both of the chambers 5 and 13 are mixed in the chamber 24e and are drawn o through the tube 26. The engine shown in Fig. 2 may be of any novel orl standard design, and constitutes no necessary part of the invention disclosed in this application.

It is obvious that many modifications and changes in the apparatus described may be m-ade Without departing from the spirit of my invention, the important feature of the invention being any apparatus that will celectively divide the crude oil supply into two portions, as described, converting one portlon into a vapor and the other 1nto a form.

ofproducer gas, which may or may not be mixed'.

I claiml. In an'apparatus for producing a combustible gas from oil, the combination of a combustion chamber, water jackets on all but one side of said combustion chamber, said combustion chamber serving to heat the vWaterjacket land form steam therein, a tube i u holding liquid oil directly in contact with the combustion chamber on the unjacketed side thereof, a tube for discharging liquid from thev vaporizing chamber into the .combustion chamber, said vaporizing cham- .bination of a combustion chamber, a Va- -porizing chamber on said combustion cham- =ber, an oil supply p1pe feeding oil into said 'vaporizing chamber, a. p1pe for the escape of the distilled vapo-r from said vaporizing chamber, a pipe for thedrainage of the vaporizing chamber, a pipe for the escape ofl the distilled vapor from said vaporizing chamber, a pipe for the drainage of the heavy oil from said vaporizing chamber, means for partially burning said heavy oil in the combustion chamber and mixing the product of said burning With the vapor from the vaporizing chamber. said combustion chamber serving to heat the vaporizing chamber.

et. In an appara'tus for producing combustible gas and vapor from oil. the combination of a Water jacketed combustion chamber, a vaporizing chamber, means for discharging the heavier oils from the vaporizing chamber into the combustion chamber, means for discharging steam from the Water jacket into the combustion chamber. said Combustion chamber operating partially to burn the oil and steam to form producer gas from said oil and steam and means for mixing the gaseous and vaporous products from both the vaporizing chamber and the combustion chamber.

5. In an apparatus for producing combustlble gas from 011 the combination of a comj bustion chamber, a vaporizing chamber located above the combustion chamber and provided with means to maintain a body of oil, a tube for transferring the residue from the vaporizing chamber to the combustion chamber, means for supplying air to the residue and partially burning the same in the combustion chamber for heating and vaporizing the oil in the vaporizing chamber, a mixing chamber and means for connecting the combustion chamber and the vaporizing chamber with said mixing chamber, and means for conducting offA the gas of the mixing chamber.

In testimony whereof I aiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

FRANCIS M. BITES.

Witnesses t ALICE M. JUHANNs, LENA M. ASH.

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