US1304896A

US1304896A - Gasolene-heater

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Publication number: US1304896A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1919-05-27
Anticipated expiration: 1936-05-27

Description

H. E. MULAUGHLIN.

GASOLENE HEATER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 3,1917.

will n eno HARRY E. MCLAUGHLIN, F LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.

GASOLENE-HEATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 27, 1919.

Application ined nay '3, 1917. seriai No. 166,244.

To 'all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, HARRY E. MoLAUGH LIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lincoln, in the county of Lancaster and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Gasolene-Heater, of which the followcoil with means for supplying the fuel thereto, and conveying the fuel therefrom to the carbureter, sec-ond, to provide means for circulating the fuel from the carbureter to the heating coil, and back to the carbure-ter, and third, to provide a simple andei'iicient car-V bureter.

'lilith the foregoing and other objects in vie-w which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it heilig understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit o'f the invention.

One practical embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing.

The drawing is a view in elevation and partly in section of a carbureter equipped with a heater in accordance with my invention.

Referring to the drawing by characters of reference, C denotes` a carbureter, of any usual construction, which is provided with a oat chamber 1, in which works the annular float 2, which operates, through the lever 3, an inlet valve 4.

' The bottoni of the float chamber 1 is drilled and tapped to receive a, threaded end `of suitable piping, indicated generally at 5,

the other end of which piping is threaded into the tapped bore in the head 6 of a preferably vertically disposed cylinder 7. The upper end of the cylinder 7 is threaded interiorly to receive the plug 8 which forms carbureter,v and drawing its other head. The plug S is drilled and tapped to receive one threaded end of piping 9, the other end of which is threaded int/0 a tapped bore formed in the side wall of the ioat chamber at the line of'liqiiid level.

Within the cylinder 7 is af coil of wire 10, along which are spaced globulal1 insulating members l1. The ends of theA coil of wire 1() are connected. throng. wires 12, which extend through insulatingbushin'gs 13, secured iii apertures formed in the wall or 'the cylinder 7 to a suitable source of electrical supply, not shown. The coiled wire 10 if:

made of material of suitably high resiance to form a' heating medium.

In use, the liquid fuel will lill the float chamber, and heating attachment, and connecting pipes, up to the liquid level. Current is allowed to flow through the coil 10 which heats the fuel in. the cylinder 7, causing the hot Huid to rise and 'iow into the cold liquid fuel from the carbureter to the heater. This sets up a: circulation of the liquid fuel and keeps the contents of Ithe iioat chamber at the proper temperature at all times.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is l 4 i l carbureter. comprising a floatchamber, means for admitting liquid hydro-carbon to the float chamber, said float chamber provided with an outlet in the bottoni thereof and an inlet in the side wall thereof, a cylinder beside the float chamber, a pipe leading froin the outlet and communicating with the cylinder through the lower portion Jthereof,

another pipe leading to the inlet and cornniuiiicatiiig with the cylinder through the upper poi-tion thereof, and a heating element in the cylinder.

In testimony that I claini the foregoing as my own, l have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of tivo witnesses.

HAR-RY E. li/CLAUGHLTN.

Witnesses:

' A. Tonus,

P. E. Ruin.