US148042A - Improvement in apparatus for burning hydrocarbons - Google Patents

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c. 1. EMESQ Apparatus fur Burning Hydrcarbuns. N0.]48,042, Patented March3.1874.

UNITED STATES' PATENT OFFICE.

' CHARLES J. EAMES, oE NEw Yoan, N. Y.

y, IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FORVBURNING HVYD'ROCARBONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,042, dated March 3, 1.874; application filed Y February 13, 1874.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it hnown that I, CHARLES J. EAMES, of New York city, New York, have invented a Hydrocarbon-Burner, of which the following is a specification:

The nature oi' my invention consists in the construction of a series or cluster of burners on the principle of the argand-burner, with or Without a wire-gauze covering their points of ignition, and with the hydrocarbon vapor fed in from a common source by means oi' a pipe, and an air-chamber provided with an inletpipe to supply the air consumed by the burners, for the purpose of making a simple, cheap, and efcient hydrocarbon-vapor burner to generate heat for the various kinds of furnaces, 85e., as will more fully hereinafter be set forth.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I now proceed to give a more specific description of its construction and operation.

In the drawings, Figure l is avertical longitudinal section of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of the same.

A is the air chamber, which is preferably made of cast-iron. Its length varies from several inches to several feet, in conformity with the size and number of burners G it is to supply with air. Its cross-section is square, and, like the length, conforms to the necessities of the burners. B is the vapor pipe or chamber, which is, from preference, generally made of iron pipe, and its length and size varying withthe demands of the burners @,which it is to supply with hydrocarbon vapor. C, the burners, are made of three short tubes, a

b c, placed one within the other, in about the` relation shown in Fig. 2, by a plan view. The sectional view, Fig. l, shows that the outside air-tube a is the widest and shortest, and is secured in an opening (which is circular) in the top plate oi' chamber A; that the vaportube b is withinand somewhat longer than tube a, andis secured in an opening in the top of the chamber B; and that the inside air-tube c is within tube'b, and long enough to reach from the top of the other tubes when secured in position" to thebottom of chamberB, through which it completely passes, and is suitably fast ened in bottom of chamber B in free communication with the air-chamber A. It will be seen from this that these tubes a, b, and c are arranged upon the well-known principle of the argand-burner. When the outside air-tube a is two inches in diameter, the vaportube b ought to be an inch and a half in diameter, and the inside air-tube c half an inch; but these relative proportionsmaybe more or less varied, as well as their actual size. The burners C are covered with wire-gauge at their points of ignition, as shown at z in Fig. 1, when it is considered desirable to diffuse the lame of the burners over the surface they are to heat, and which is very near to them. When the surface the burners are to heat is some distance from the tops of the burners, the wire-gauze may be dispensed with.

rlhe number oi' burners C may be as great as desirable, and when it is necessary to have a large number of them, I prefer to construct several air-chambers, A, side by side, with a corresponding increase in the number of vapor-pipes B and burners C, thus forming a cluster of burners by a series of rows, each row containing a series of burners. In this instance my chambers Amay intercommunicate and be cast in one whole, and pipe B in the chamber A be supplied by one pipe. Both the air and the vapor are regulated by valves, which can be readily adjusted so as to supply the proper proportion of air and vapor to effect a perfect combustion, the cock regulating the supply of air being in the inlet-pipe D, and the one regulating the supply of vapor in that part of the pipe B outsideof the chamber A.

When the invention has been constructed as described, the air is admitted through inletpipe D to the air-chamber Awhich it fills, and thence passes up and out of the tubes a and c. The hydrocarbon vapor is admitted into the pipe B, and Hows up and out of the tube b, when it is ignited by any suitable means, and burns in combination with the streams of air that are flowing from 'the tops of the tubes a and c of the burners C.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let` ters Patent, is-

2 MSAMQ 1.y The combination of the air-chamber conair-eharnber A surrounded by a gas-chamber, neeting with a eentrall pipe and an annular B, with the pipes a Z; c. pipe, with a vapor Or gas chamber connecting In testimony that I claim the foregoing I with an annular pipe placed between the two have hereunto set my hand this 13th day of air-pipes, as and lfor the .purpose set forth. February, 1874.

2. A series of nrners each having a gasp pipe surrounding' and surrounded by an air- (JHARLES J EAMES' pipe, so as to form a hydrocarbon-burner, as Witnesses: set forth. V. C. CLAYTON,

3. The combination and arrangement ofthe A. MOORE.

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