US1204638A - Liquid fuel. - Google Patents

Description

FRANK C. AXTELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LIQUID FUEL.

w t Konrawing To all who-m it may concernf Be itknown'that I, FRANK C. Ax'rELL, a

,citizen of the United States, and resident of New York city, borough of Manhattan. in

the, county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Liquid Fuel, of which the Y} following is a Specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a liquid fuel particularlyadapted for use in the operation of internal combustion engines, which fuel may be used as a substn 'tute for gasolenein such engines, a further object bein to enable the utilizationin the 1 fuel of ac "cap base, whereby fuel may be u producedat a; relatively low cost.

In carryingout my invention I make a mixture comprising alight hydrocarbon oil, "(such as kerosene), alight hydrocarbon distilla-te, and alcohol, with which is combined what I term a'. mixing or combining agentfcomprising a iiquid,jor mixture of liquids, which is soluble or miscible with each of the constituent liquids above named inall proportions. I, V v

Myim'provedliquid fuel may be produced as follows To two volumes of hydrocarbon oil. such fits-kerosene, preferably that which is known in commerce as export oil, (com mercial 'kerosene' having a flash-point of Q tol10 F;).I add one volume of a light parafiin distillate boilingat about to 80 0., or the same volume of alight distillate, suchas isobtained by cracking or decomposing parafiinoils in heated retorts, and to such mixture ofhvdrocarbon oil, (export oil), andlightdistillate, I add one volume (if-"alcohol of about 95 volume per cent. Under such conditions the alcohol does not mix 'with the aforesaidmixture of oil and flight distillate, and the whole mixture would separateinto two strata, one of which consists almostentirely of the hydrocarbons and the "other of alcohol and water, and in order to cause them to combine to form a homogeneous mixture I add thereto a certain proportion of the mixing 0r combining agent above referred to. Such mixing or combining agent may consist of any suitable liquid or mixture of liquids which is soluble or miscible in all proportions with each of the constituent liquids above named. Thus, a liquid which is soluble or miscible in all 55 proportions in export oil, inIeither of the Specification of Letters Patent.

"the production of a combustible mixture for Patented Nov, 14, 1916.

' Application filed September 5, 1916. Serial Nb. 118,384.

light distillates described, and in alcohol of l 95 volume per cent, would constitute a mixing or combining agent, within the scope of the'appended claims. It will be evident to those skilled in this art. that there are yarious liquids which will fulfil the requirements and which possess the properties I have described regarding the said min fing or combining agent, and as specific illustrations I may mention commercial anhydrous fusel oil and. commercial anhydrous amyl alcohoheither of which, when added in certain proportion to. the aforesaid mixture of hydrocarbons, (such as export .oil and light distillate, and alcohol of volume per cent), causes such liquids to mix perfectly, the resulting mixture being a homogeneous liquid fuel, which will remain mixed and not separate. As an example of the proportion of the aforesaid mixing or combining agent which may be mixed'with the aforesaid hydrocarbons and alcohol, it will be found that four-tenths (0.4) volume of anhydrous fuscl oil or anhydrous amyl alcohol mixed with the above describedmixture of two volumes of export oil, one volume of light paraliin distillate or of cracked' distillate, and one volume of alcohol at 95 volume per cent, will produce the homogeneous'mixture described.

While I have mentioned examples of proportions of the various ingredients utilized in the productionof my improved liquid fuel, it will be understood that the proportions mentioned may be varied in order to meet the desired requirements. or for the production of my improved liquid fuel of varying grades or volatility. or having the most desirable properties for the use to which it is to be applied.

Some of the advantages of my new liquid fuel, when compared with ordinary commercial gasolene of today, are that my fuel produces a more perfect combustion in the engine cylinders, yields considerably more power, is capable of taking up ordissolving small quantities of water (up to about threefourths of one per cent), without separating, thus eliminating "one of the inherent troubles in such use of the aforesaid gasolene, and further, that my improved fuel internal combustion engines, it may be supf may be produced at" relatively low cost.

yliml lo tho (Ufl'lDG lilui'ingli :1 cnfbuz'eior in HM ordinary n'nsnncr of using gnsolonc for sin-l1 purpose.

ll'liilu l lnun referred in my iu'l'provsul liqniil ('omposilion as adopted as a liquid fnnl wnii-li, \vlion mixed. with air in proper proportions, would serve us a mixture for llSl in internal combustion engines it will no llllllilSLUOd that such :1 composition may lie. llillllZl'll for any other (lQSlJHl purpose to which it may he in iicl applicable.

\Yliiln l' iefviherein in anhydrous fusel oil. it will lie nnilm'siool'l that I intend by ;-;n 'l1 form in include anhydrous nm vl alcohol and where I have lbffillml to a light ilisl'illntu" l inland the t-oi'm to include a li x i li'omrlmn (linlillnlb. wlieitlwuo'i the light Piil'fllllll sci-ins or such as is obtained by vim-ling or ilounzngu :iin}; l'lillzllllil oils in limited Penn-ta the term living inienilcd by luv to include, li mliol'znrlions having :1 gravity lug-hint than kerosene oil volume of alcohol (about 95 \"Olllll'lQ nel- Cont), 11ml about 'f()llI'--il'li'll$; (0.4.) Yolumo of nnlqx'lrous fusel oil.

Signed at lieu York city in the (*oujny of New York and Stain of 1.5m York this nevi/ml (lay of iloplmnber. A. l). 1916.

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