US150312A - Improvement in air-compressors - Google Patents

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W. H. FAUNT'LERUY.

Air-Compressors.

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No.150,3l2.

UNITED STATES PATENT CEEICE.,

WILLIAM ELFAUNTLEROY, OF EUREKA, NEVADA.

IMPROVEMENT IN AIR-COMPRESSORS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,312, dated April 28, 11574; application led Cctober 15, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. FAUNTLE- ROY, of Eureka, Lander county, State of Nevada, have invented Improvements in Generating and Transmittin g Heat and Force and do hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawings are sufficient to enable any person skilled in the art or science t0 which it most nearly appertains to make and use my said invention without further invention or experiment.

My invention relates to an improved apparatus for multiplying, accumulating, and storing power, to be used for the various purposes for which other and more costly power is at present applied. My improvement contemplates the employment of a hydrostatic engine, which may be operated by any suitable power for the purpose of compressing air, so that the air may be transmitted by proper means to any point or points where it can be used for motive purposes.

In order to more fully illustrate and explain my invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specincation, in which- Figures 1 and 3 represent a beam or other suitable engine moved by water, steam, compressed air, or other force. In the present instance it is represented as being propelled by water.

A C M is avessel containing water or other fluid, the surface area of the cylinders C and A being, for the purpose of illustration, as l to 10s l) is a water-wheel. E is a walkingbeam.- B is an air-reservoir. F is a pistonrod, carrying head in the cylinder C. G is the crank which is attached to the end of thewheelshaft, and which is connected with the walkingbeam bythe connecting-rod H. K K are guiderods connecting with the diaphragm L and attached to a collar around thereservoir B. These rods play on two guides on the sides of B, and are connected to the beam E by the rod O. L is a diaphragm carrying two piston-heads, n, the lower one, i, on the surface of the water, and the upper and smallest one, n, playing in the cylinder Z, which is of the same surface area as cylinder C. Z has air-pipes S S leading through the reservoir B, or has a valve in the cylinder-head opening upward and receiving air from the diaphragmspace, which will be provided. with air-valves opening inward. V is a valve opening upward into B. N N is the gallows or supporting-frame, and P is a pipe for the transmission of force when needed, now closed.

Fig. 3 is'a sectional elevation of Fig. l.

A pump, X, or reservoir will be'required to supply water, as it will lose by evaporation. Temperature and pressure gages and safetyvalves are also provided. The metal is calculated to withstand, a pressure far within the bounds of safety. Thus force and its equivalent in heat may be transmitted under pressure to distant localities.

Fig. 2 is an upright cylinder, which is in 'tended to take the place of the cylinder A in Fig. 1 when it isdesired to produce heat by the compression of air.

There is no difference in the construction of the machine, except that below the valve V there is a very small and long aperture, or a number of them, through a solid block of iron bushed with platina or other metal, so that when the upstroke is made by the diaphragm L the air or gas in Z will be compressed through the aperture into B with multiplied force, and in consequence of the violent compression and friction the air or gas will be expanded, and a great degree of force and heat will be pro duced in the reservoir B, sufcient to warm houses, cook food, reduce ores, disintegrate substances, prepare anhydrous limes, and generally for all purposes of science, art manufacture, and domestic use for which heat is now or hereafter may be used, it being the mechanical equivalent of force.

This machine will produce highly-expanded gas of any kind, before or after transmission, by admitting the gas into the cylinder Z through the tubes connected therewith, and forcing it into the reservoir B through the aperture, from whence it will pass through the pipe P to distant localities.

Pressure-gages will show the pressure. Ten1- perature and pressure being proportional, temperature will show the pressure. These gages afford the means of utilizing the hours of night, as any given pressure may be sent in any given direction. Reservoirs of proportional area give a proportional amountof force, and the amount used may be measured by a meter. vWater and all iiuids may be transmitted in the same man ner by means of pipes and reservoirs, provided that in no instance must the point of desired transmission be at a greater height than the original reservoir. I provide that engines and condcnsers being now in use may be employed. The pipes and reservoirs are snppliedwith pressure and temperature gages, safety-valves, connections, and stop cocks Where needed. The metal composing the pipes and reservoirs is calculated to withstand a pressure i'ar within. the bounds of safety.

I do not claim the hydrostatic principle involved in this invention. I claim that, by the use of force thus supplied to places more or less remote, railroad-cars, Vehicles, factories, and vessels plying upon the navigable Waters can be propelled, and that heat can be supplied for the arts and sciences, and every conceivable domestic use where force, heat, and the gases are now or hereafter may be used.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The cylinder A and reservoir B separated by a partition in which is a small cylinder, Z, with which air-ports s s communicate, in combination with the diaphragm L, With its two pistons, i u, and the operating-piston F and connecting-pipes C M, all combined and arranged substantially as and for the purpose above described.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal.

VILLIAM II. FAUNTLEROY. [Ls] Vitnesses JoHN L. BOONE, i (1M. RICHARDSON.

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