US133051A - Improvement in vapor-burners - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES ORSON 1v. PERKINS,

PATENT OEEroE.

OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD MILLER 86 00., OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN VAPOR- BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,051, dated November 12, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OEsoN N. PERKINS, of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Top for Vapor-Burner; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawin g and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification and represents, in

Figure 1, a side view of the top as applied to the lamp-tube, and in Fig. 2 a vertical central section of the same twice the size.

This invention relates to an improvement in the article of manufacture which is applied to the top of the wick-tube of a lamp for the purpose of vaporizing the fluid andformin g what is termed avapor-burner, particularly to the class in which the perforations for the vapor to pass through are made between two disks, the said disks serving as a protector for the jets when moving the lamp.

Heretofore this top or burner has been made from cast metal turned into form, and bored out to fit the tube, which construction requires so much mechanical labor as to make them an expensive article. The object of this invention is to simplify the construction, and consequently greatly reduce the cost; and it consists in forming a tube from sheet metal drawn up to fit the wick-tube, the two disks cut from sheet metal, the lower one placed onto the tube and secured by closing it thereon, the

upper disk by riveting or otherwise securing the upper end of the tube, the perforations being made through the tube in substantially the usual manner.

A is the tube, which is struck up from sheet metal to fit closely the wick-tube, but so as to be removable therefrom or be adjusted vertically thereon in the usual manner. 13 is the lower disk, C the upper disk, both formed from sheet metal, the lower disk B perforated to pass onto the tubeand closed thereon, as seen in Fig. 2. The upper disk 0 is, by preference, indented upon its under side so as to be set onto the end of the tube and be thus governed in its proper relative position, and is secured thereon by a rivet, a, or other equivalent device. The tube is bored between the disks,as at d, for the escape of the vapor, which, ignited, burns between the disks in the usual manner.

Thus constructed the article is much cheaper and equally as good, if not better, than that formed from solid metal.

It will be understood that this top is used upon a tube within which is awick extending down into the fluid, and that by heating the wick in the tube vapor is generated, which, passing through perforations in the disk, and when ignited serves the purpose of heating the wick for the generation of vapor, the first heating being done by the application of heat directly to the wick-tube from some other source.

I claim as my invention- The herein-described top for a vapor-burner, consisting of the tube A and two disks, B C, the said tube extending through the disk 13 and united with the disk C, in the manner substantially as set forth.

0. N. PERKINS.

Witnesses:

O. B. ARNOLD, GEO. M. CLARK.

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