US1275379A

US1275379A - Gas-moistening apparatus.

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Publication number: US1275379A
Application number: US85752014A
Authority: US
Inventors: Eli J Bushey
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1914-08-19
Filing date: 1914-08-19
Publication date: 1918-08-13
Anticipated expiration: 1935-08-13

Description

E. J. BUSHE YL .GAS MOIST'ENING APPARATUS. APPLICATION men AUG-l9 191 4.

Patented Aug. 13, 1918'.

. anwwhoz Ell; J. Busficy %1 his 61mm I .ELI J. 'BUSHEY, 0F YORK, N. Y.

GAS-MOISTENIN G APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters-Patent; Patented Aug. 13, 1918.

Application filed August 19,1914. Serial No. 857,520.

To all whom it may concern:

zen of the United. States and a resident of New .York, county and gtate-of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas-Moistening Apparatus,-

of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. 1 1

This invention relates'more particularly to the method of and 'apparatusfor saving gas andfor cleaning the' cylinders of gasolene engines of carbon.

One of the principal objects er the inven tion is to provide a simple attachment which may be applied to gasolene engines of automobiles or other vehicles without changing the construction of the same and by which andthe method resulting therefrom, steam or vapor and air may be mixed with the gas or explosive mixture between the carbureterand the cylinders of the engine, therebyeoonomizing in the use of gasolene and at the same time increasing the speed and cansing the carbon deposit in the engine cylink ders to be automatically removed by the steam. I

Another object of the invention is to provide simple and eflicient means and method whereby the cylinders of gasolene engines may be specially treated for. the removal of carbon or other foreign deposit.

A further object of the invention is to pro vide an attachment or apparatus which is inexpensive to manufacture and which may be readily made and assembled and applied to various kinds of engines as ordinarily constructed.

With these and other objects in view, the

invention will be hereinafter more particu larly describe d, with referenceto the accompanymg drawings, which form a part of this specification, and will then be pointed out in the claim at the end of the description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side eleva- 'tion of one form of automobile engine with the invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section of apart of the apparatus.

- Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line III III of Fig. 2.

The engine 10' has one or more cylinders 11 and is provided with the usual carburetor 12 having a throttle which may be operated by a crank 13 and by a rod 14. Above the .25.- This valve25 hasan 21 to the pipe 23 to the cylinders, and leading from the cylin- Be it known that I,-ELI J. BUSHTEF, a citiders is an exhaust pipe 16.- The parts thus described may be of the usual or of any preferred-construction. I

A tank 17 may be suitably attached to or supported on the dash-board 18' of the vehicle. This tank may, be cylindrical in form' or otherwise made and is provided with tegral with the pipe 21 and said pipe 23 is provided with a plurality of convolutions 24 about the exhaust pipe 16, by which the liquid or other fluid passing through the pipe will be heatedbythe exhaust from the engines, the exhaust pipe serving as a heating drum. The pipe 23 at its lower "end communicates with the intakeflo above the carbureter 12 and in said -pipe'23 isa valve Operating arm 26 which may be connected by otherwise to the throttler'od 14"and'in such a waythat'the throttle isopen'edfto start' the-engine and have the same runningbefore the valve 26' is'open to permit-the fluid from the pipe 23 to enter the intake 15 and mix with the gaspassing through the carbureter.

- The pipe 21in the tank 17 is provided at the lower portion thereof with a plurality of openings 28 andthese openings are covered bya felt washeror' gasket-29 or other? wise. so that water, as 30, within the tank 17 may. seep through the felt or other covering through the openings and pass" with the air from the atmosphere through the pipe aroundthe exhaust pipe and there heated so, as to heat the air and --convertthe water or vapor into "steam so that the latter may be commingled with'the gas passing from thecarbureter to the en- -g1ne in an amount according to the openof the valve 26 and according to the positlon or the tle.

It will be evident that the air and vaporized water being supplied to the engine in addition to the usual supply of explosive mixture will materially reduce the quantity necessary to run the engine, thereby economizing in the use of gasolene. The steam amount of opening of the throta link 27 or also serves further to clean the ene cylinders of carbon so that a saving is accomplished in this way; The invention also serves to add to the speed as it has been demonstrated in practice that when the engine is running and the valve 26 is open, the speed of the engine is thereby materially increased.

When it is desired to thoroughly clean the engine cylinders if they become dirty through deposits of carbon, etc., and When first attaching the invention to an engine already inuse, l employ a scavenging attachment. This is shown in Fig. 2 in the form of a piper3l leading from the bottom of the tank 17 and communicating with the pipe 21 beneath the tank. In thlspipe 31 is a valve 32 which may be opened by hand and which will permit a larger supply of Water to pass through the pipe 21 than would naturally seep through the packing 29. In using the scavenging attachment, the engine is usually run at a high speed before the valve 32 is opened. By this method and apparatus an efiectual cleaning of the cylinder or cylinders is secured.

Having thus described my inventlon, l

l emme claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A-gas moistening pparatus comprising a gas supply conduit, a heating drum, a water tank, a pipe connected at its outlet end with said gas conduit and passing upwardly tions and the outlet end of'the pipe, a sleeve of porous material fitting about said pipe Within the tank and extending over the perforations 1n the pipe, means for creating a suction through saidpipe, anda valve in said pipe for controlling the passage of moistened air therethrough to the gas supply conduit.

This specification signed and witnessed this 14th day of August, A. D. 1914.

pm J. BUSHEY.

Witnesses:

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