US1273402A - Smoke-consumer. - Google Patents

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T. PAROBH.

SMOKE CONSUMER.

APPLICATlON HLE'D APR. I3. 1917.

Patented July 23, 1918.

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SMOKE-CONSUMER.

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Application. filed April 1a, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, 'l rmonoun PARonr, a subject of the Emperor of Austria, resident of Dundee Lake, county of Bergen, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Smoke- Consumers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in smoke-consuming apparatus andhas for its object the provision of a simple, efiicient,

and inexpensive device of this character wherein a pipe of novel construction is located in the smoke stack, and is. provided with a series of burner tubes adapted to be supplied with a gasolene heatingmediuin by a manually-controlled means within control of the locomotive engineer.

A further object of this invention relates to the provision of a smoke-consuming device wherein any increase in the force of the draft within the smoke stack of a locomotive will result in the automatic feeding of a correspondingly increased amount of gasolene to the burners which consume the unburntparticles of carbon that may be passing through the smoke stack.

With the above and other objects in view my invention consists in the combination, construction and parts disclosed in the drawings and specification, and then more par ticularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, wherein similar reference characters designate similar parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a fragmental side elevational view of a locomotive showing the application of my invention,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmental side elevational view of a portion of the same,

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing a modification in construction,

Fig. i is a fragmental sectional view show ing one of the burners,

Fig. 5 is a similar view showing a modilied form of the burner to be described,

Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view showing the application of the invention to the smoke stack,

Fig. 7 is a detail sectional View taken through the smoke stack in another plane,

Fig. 8 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 8-8 of Fig. 6, and

F ig, 9 is an enlarged sectional view showin the valve construction.

I). order to fully consume the particles of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July %3, 1918.. fierial No. 161,697.

carbon, sulfur, and the like emanating from a partially consumed fuel within a furnace, it is found necessary to bring the same into direct connection with an extremely hot fire before passage into the atmosphere, and it have found it desirable to control this hot fire by thcvariation in the force of the draft through the smoke stack, thereby further rarefying the air currents and producing an updraft which assists materially in the combustion of the fuel. used in the furnace as well as ticles rising therefrom.

In Fig. 1 is shown an illustration of an ordinary locomotive 10 having a smoke-stack 11 and is attached, contiguous to the stack, a reservoir or tank 14- having at the top a filling nozzle 15, and provided with a sight gage so that the quantity of liquid fuel contained within the reservoir may be seen.

Entering the reservoir 14 is a pipe 18 connecting with a pump19 actuated by a handle 20 by means of which air may be forced into the tank, sure.

At the bottom of the tank, secured by supports or to the smoke stack 11, shown) is engaged a pipe 25 which may be formed into a coil, if desired, so as to avoid danger of separation due to strain, the pipe ultimately entering the lower part of the smoke stack and having connected thereto a valve body 27 secured to the locomotive. This valve body 27 forms a part of the fuel conduit orpipe25 and the passage through which may be brackets 21, directly or by bands 22 (as the valve chamber is controlled normally by means of the conical plug 28 pressed against the seat formed in the body 27 by means of the coiled push spring 29.

It will be noticed that the valve body 2'? has its vertical passage 50 communicating with a conical transversely-extending bore 5]., and that the conical plug 28 terminates in a polygonal rod or stem 52 slidably mounted in the valve body. This plug 28 has one end of the spring 29 bearing against it so as to force it to engage the conical seat of the bore 51, but from Fig. 9 it will be seen that the conical plug 28 is spaced, whenin closed position, from the inner conical wall of thebore 51 so that a minimum amount of gasolene will, at all times, pass up through the passage 50 to the rings 38 and 39 which, upon becoming eat y the p oducts at completely consuming any pan upon the upper portion of the boiler smoke-stac combustion or smoke rising unconsumed through the smoke stack 11, ignite the gasolene. The locon'iotiye engineer is it all times able to control the flow of gasolene manually to the burner by increasingthe air-pressure within the initial gasolene reservoir 1% as tiie,h?andfprii1ip l-9= is placed within innne diate access and control of the engineer. Connected to the plug 281s a stem seem-ying at its outer end the angularly-disposed plate p'pe extends u iiwardly withinthe smoke stack and is secured in positi'on H lierein means of the clips 37" sec u ed to the inner wall of the "Formed integrally upon this pipeiQif) are ash/fies of e'o'ils or ring-like i illi rs'351M 39 which arc-befri- :Z t'ihtttlly (hg S ed '3' tl i'in the snioke stack so rilled W tlnn" the greater part the smoke stack.

Both (if the riiigs 3 8 andf39 haveradial tubes 'd tei'niinatiiig in bu'rners 43 as indi cated in Figs, t and 8, or double burners, 4L5 "n'QFigI These burner'ti'ps are roj radially of each annular bu 1 i 38 'andfiS, toward the center thereof that the flames and heated gases feni ahat'n rohi these burner tips will thoroughly n'ningle 1i ftlrth'e' snide or un'c'oinshined partiQlQS Of'ca'rben issuing up through the smoke se k, and'loe burnt up. w 7' :Ffb llidll? reregei g it will be seen that I haire provided siniple, and efiectii e burner device heated by means of gasolene fed from an initial sourceot gasolene supply. The locomotiyeengineer will initially pump air into the reservdir' 1 4; containing the gasolene which will" gradually beforcedup throughthe pipe 25 in sinaill quantities into the ri er tipsfow'ing" to the pressure in the tzir'ik"1 4, as there will necessarily b6 Vapor pressure in the coils of'pipe 25 it will-be see to r was noticed thatthe burner tubes projeet fl an'ies isfanyfinerieasein the ii'orce'offluid pressure 1 the sinoke stack such as is due to the ekha st'fi In'the engine ,tliefforce or" fluid p ss eactingin smoke stack will cause the 'pla'te32 to' IDOVK-B nwardly, thus unseat-- ing the plug 28 and causinga inlet for the g co trolled by th is plug :to become ,o e g asol ene will be fed t, basses more heat generated. W e fiulldjipressurei falls within the staclgltlie difij'eiencein the atniosphericprestins? pressure: willresult'in a, draft r smoke unconsuined particles of carbon will then rise through the smoke stack will, upon coming into contact with the highlyrheatcd'burner tubes be consumed. in a very effective manner. By increasing the air pressure within the initial gasolene tank 1 the engineer can, at any time cause a greater ainount of gasolene to be forced up through the pipe to the burner tubes, even when the plug'flS is in seated position so that the burner members may be kept heated at all times, sblong as there is gasolcnc within the reservoir ll.

Numerous 'in odiiications may be resorted to in' practicewithout departing in details from the principle of invention herein dis 16 3 i i i i i Vhat I claim and seek protection on is 2 In a smoke-consuming device, in combinationpwi't h a sinokestack, a fuel supply tank contiguous thereto, and means for supplyingpressure within said tank, a pipe in saidsmoke stack, a alvo on said pipe in said smoke-stack controlling the passage thiiiugh said pipe, means actuated by the disc iaig of gases through said smoke-stack to open'said valve, and a plurality of" burners having one or inore orifices arranged within said sinoke staek', said pipe leading from said tank to SillddJulllQl'S.

In a deyice as described, in combination, a smoke stack, a gasolene reservoir disposedalongsidethcreof, a burner feed pipe eaten'ding i erticallywithin said stack and having its lower p ortion projecting through the sideof said stack so as to be connected to the lower end of said gasolcne reservoir, a valve chan'iber interposed in the length ol said burner feed pipe and providing a passage through pipe, a plug fitting said passage so as to normally be seated, but shaped soas to allow a portion 01 said passage to remain open, a spring in said valve chamber uiapted to be compressed when said plug is forced thereagainst in order to increase the opening of said passage, and a draft-pressure operated plate adapted to actuate said plug.

3. In a deyice as described, in con'ibination, a smoke-stack, a liquid fuel supply tank, a feed pipe leadingfroni said tank into said smoke stack and formed thereon with burners, said pipe having a normally-r'estrietcd passage, and means responsive to the impact of gases passingthrough said stack for increasing tl c gize of said passage.

Intestiinony' whereof: I have allixed my signature.

THEODORE PAROBI.

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