US1148440A - Oil vaporizer and mixer. - Google Patents

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A. BRODBECK. OIL VAPORIZER AND MIXER.

APPLICATION FILED sEPLn. 1912. RENEWED DEC. 29. 1914. hwh-fiflfi fio Patented; July 27, 1915.

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wi/tmeooeo ADOLF BRODBECK, 0F SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

OIL VAPORIZER AND MIXER.

Specificationcf Letters Patent.

Patented July 27 1915.

Application filed September 11, 1912, Serial No. 719,819. Renewed December 29, 1914. Serial No. 879,592.

. To all whom it may concern:

new and useful Improvements in Oil Va porizers and Mixers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in carbureters or generators and has particular application to devices of the character above set forth for vaporizing volatile fluids, such, for instance, as petroleum and its by-prodnets, and mixing the same with air to produce a hydrocarbon gas.

In carrying out the present invention, it is my purpose to provide a generator or carbureter wherein the volatile liquids and air may be heated so as to vaporize the former and enable the free commingling of the resultant vapor with the air, thus producing a gas capable of explosion, which gas may be led into the cylinders of an ex plosive engine or utilized for other purposes as desired.

It is also my purpose to provide a device of the character above set forth wherein the quantities of vapor and air may be regu-' lated independently of each other previous to the mixing operation and wherein quantities'of such air and vapor may be regulated and controlled simultaneously.

With the above and other objects in View, the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter set forth in and falling within the scope of the claim.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a carbureter or gen erator constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical central sectional view of the same, parts being shown in elevation.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings in detail, A indicates the casing or body of the device which, in the present instance, is provided with a removable cover 2 threaded onto the body or fastened thereto in any suitable manner, a bracket 3 or the like being employed so that the device may be attached to a suitable or convenient object or support. Mounted within the casing A and secured thereto by means of brackets 4 secured to the walls'of the casing at diametricallyopposite points, are burners 5,

preferably of the retort type'and each including a conduit 6, a retort 7, and a burner section 8, suitable couplings being employed to connect the retort to the conduit and the burner to the retort, the conduits 6 of the burners being connected up to a suitable source of supply, as a fuel reservoir 9.

Leading into the casing A is a fuel pipe 10 terminating withlt the casing in branch portions 11, 11 leading around the burners and connected to each other by means of a vaporizing tube 12 arranged across the top of the burners and parallel therewith so as to attain the maximum head therefrom, the pipe 10 being connected up to a suitable reservoir 13 containing a volatile liquid, such as petroleum or its by-products and connected up to a pump 14 so 'that such liquid may be forced, under pressure, into the vaporizing tube 12.

Arranged within the casing A preferably above the vaporizing tube 12 and within the heat zone of the burners, are air receivers 15, 15 each in open communication with an air conduit 16 terminating in a common main 17 connected up to a source of supply, as an air reservoir 18 receiving air from the compressor 19. v The ai receivers 15, 15

are preferably spaced apart, as shown in Fig. 2, and secured to the vaporizing tube 12 and'supported thereupon by means of the brackets 20, and the vaporizing tube 12, at a point approximately centrally of the distance between the air receivers 15, 15, is

' provided with an outlet nipple 21 in which is arranged an outwardly opening check valve 22, and connected to which is an expansible vapor receiver 23 designed to receive the vapor from the vaporizing tube 12 and adapted to hold such vapor until the same is utilized, the check valve 22 opening to permit the flow of the gaseous vapor or fluid from the vaporizing tube 12, but preventing back flow of such fluid from the receiver. This receiver is preferably in the form of a collapsible bag, asshown, and to the upper extremity thereof is connected a. valve casing 24 in which is arranged a- 1'0 tary plug valve or the like 25 designed to control the flow of gas from the bag and adapted to cut off such flow. Leading from each air receiver 15, is a right angular outlet nipple 26 to the free extremity of which is fastened in any suitable manner a valve casing 27 in which is rotatably mounted a till pocket adapted plug valve or the like Qdadapted to. control theflow of air from the respective reservoir and cut ofi such flow.

Arranged within the casing A and projecting outwardly thereof through an aperture 29 in the cover 2, is a mixing tube 30 su'pported or held Within the casing in any suitable manner, as by the suspension bracket 31. To the lower end'of the mixing tube 30 within the casing A, is screw threaded or otherwise fastened a coupling InemberZ-KQ having a frusto-conical shaped bottom 33 formed in its raised portion with a plurality of threaded apertures 34 depending from which and threaded thereinto are spray nozzles casings of the air receivers and vapor receiver. The inclined portion of the bottom 33 of the coupling 32 and the proximate wall of such coupling form an annular to receive sediment or other foreign matter which might find its Way into the mixing tube.

The valves 28 and 25 are each equipped with an operating lever 36 and common to all of such levers is a main actuating rod 37 provided with a plurality of apertures 38 to any one of which the levers 36 may be fas tened, thus enabling the valves to be adjustedindependently of one another so that the desired quantity of gas and air may be fed to the mixing tube irrespective of each other.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction, mode of operation and manner of employing my invention will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art.

The burners 8 are ignited, and the volatile liquid admitted to the pipe 11 and the vaporizing tube 12, and the latter being disposed with n he heat zone of the burnconnected to the valve ers, quickly and efi'ectively vaporizes the liquid and causes such vapor to enter the gas receiver 23. Similarly, air is admitted to the conduits 16 thence to the reservoirs 15 and owing to the proximity of the reservoirs to the burners, such air is heated. The actuating rod 3? of the valves may now be operated to establish communication between the gas and air receivers and the mixing tube, thereby permitting the gas an air to flow into the mixing tube and freely commingle with each other. the mixing tube, the resultant explosive gas may be conducted to any suitable point of consun'iption, as, for instance, the cylinders of an explosive engine or other like apparatus.

While I have herein shown and described one particular form of my invention by way of illustration, it is to be understood that I do not limit or confine myself to the exact details of construction herein described and delineated, as modification and variation may be made within the scope of the claim and without departing from the spirit of the invention.

I claim:

In a generator, a gas receiver, an air receiver, and a mixing tube common to said receivers, a coupling member interposed between said receivers and mixing tube and provided with a frusto-conical shaped bot tom, the inclined portion of the bottom of the coupling and the adjacent wall of said coupling forming an annular pocket adapted to receive sediment or the like.

In testimony whereof I- ailix my signas0 ture in presence of two witnesses.

ADOLF BRODBECK, PH. D.

W'itnesses:

ALVIN F. Sunnnnne, M. F. EAKLE.

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