US1400108A

US1400108A - Oil-burner

Info

Publication number: US1400108A
Application number: US475200A
Authority: US
Inventors: Walker William
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1921-06-06
Filing date: 1921-06-06
Publication date: 1921-12-13
Anticipated expiration: 1938-12-13

Description

W. WALKER. olL BURNER. lAPPLlCATION FILED JUNE 6, 192|. 1,400,108, Patented Deo. 13, 1921.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM WALKER, OF ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON.

OIL-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 13, 1921.

Application filed June s, 1921. serial No. 475,200.

To @ZZ whom t may conce/m:

Be it known that l, WILLIAM Wnnxnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Aberdeen, in the county of Grays Harbor Vdomestic purposes and which will afford a relatively high efiiciencywith an economical consumption of fuel.

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With these and other ends in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings,-

Figure 1 is aside elevation of an oil burner embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with one of the burner heads partly broken away. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on broken line 3 3 of Fig. 1.V Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view of one of the burner heads. Fig. 5 is a vertical detail section through 5-5 of Fig. 2,

parts being omitted.

In said drawings, the reference numeral 10 designates a hollow base member which is desirably rectangular in transverse section containing a chamber 11.v This chamber serves as a reservoir for a mixture ofV hydro-carbon gas and air which is received from the end 12 of a pipe 13 of less diameter than the chamber 11 and extendsrfrom one end of the latter to about the midlength of the same.

The other end of the pipe 13 communicates through a return bend 141 with a receptacle 15 serving as a mixing chamber and located at one side of the basemember 10 adjacent to the inlet end of the pipe 13. Air is admitted from below through an opening 16into the mixing chamber 15.

Plates

17 and 18 are removably secured to the receptacle to afford air tight closures for clean-out holeswhich are advantageously provided in the top and in one side, respec# tively, of the receptacle. l

Connected to the receptacle 15 and in opposed relations with the inlet end of the return bend 14 is the discharge element 20 of a substantially horizontal coil of pipes 19 which constitutes a gas'generator with respect to fuel oil delivered into the receiving element 21 of the coil from any suitable .source of supply, not shown. The fue] oil is supplied into said coil under pressure and to obviate its passing too rapidly therethrough the pipe coil is advantageously provided interiorly with a porous retarding agent such, for example, as fibrous asbestos indicated by 22 in Fig. 3.

The generating of gas from the oil is accomplished by meansv of a supplementary burner which is disposed below said coil and, as shown, comprises a horizontally arranged vessel 23 having orifices 24: in its top for the discharge of fuel gas received from the reservoir 11 through a hollow bracket 25 provided at one side of the base member 10.

Generation of gas within said coil is started by burning oil-saturated material in troughs 26 provided in the top of themvcssel 23. Adjacent to each of its ends the chamber 11 is provided with passages 27 extending upwardly through tubular neck element-s 23 of the base member.

Said necks are desirably square in horizontal sections and terminate in inwardly sloping sides to afford inclined bearing surfaces 29 and upwardly converging outlets for the respective passages 27.

Surmounting each of said necks is a hollow burner 30 having the shape of a parallelepiped comprising separable collar and

head members

31 and 32. The collar inember 31 is in the nature of a rectangular vplate provided with a central hub element 33 which extends upwardly into the head and having a central aperture corresponding in shape to the tapering extremity of the respective neck for seating upon the same. Said hub is also provided with air inlet holes 3-1 which incline inwardl toward the axis of the neck as shown in iig. 1. The head member 32 is provided along the bottoms of its side and end walls with rabbets, such as 35, to receive the supporting collar member 31.

The side walls 36 of said head member are each provided with a series of horizontal slits 37 through which the combustible gas-andair mixture is emitted to be consumed outside of the head.

Above the neck and hub in each head 30 is provided a cap piece 38 which is recessed to fit over the hub and afford in its underside concavities 39 to provide communicative connections betweenthe inlets 34 and the throat passage in the neck which will direct