US311493A

US311493A - Apparatus for generating gas

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Publication number: US311493A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-02-03
Anticipated expiration: 1902-02-03

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1. JAMES.

I APPARATUS FOR GENERATING GAS. No. 311,493. l Patented Feb. 3, 1885.-

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PATENT Car ion.

IRA JAMES, OF MATTOON, ILLINOIS.

APPARATUS FOR GENERATING GAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,493, dated February 3 1885 Application filed December 10, 1883.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IRA J AMES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Mattoon, county ofColes, State ot'lllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Generating Gas and Means for Conveying the Same, for use in connection with gas'engines; and I do declarethc following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the ac companying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has relation to gasengines for motive powerand the means and apparatus for furnishing and generating gas for such purpose. The objects are, first, to provide simple and adequate mechanism in connection with air and volatile oil to generate a combustible gas to be used as a motive power in connection with gas-engines; second, to provide such means as are necessary to increase the combustible power of the gas generated; third, to provide in connection with any gas-engine the means of generating the gas for its own consumption and enabling gas-engines to be used where no regular gasworks exist; fourth, to provide a portable apparatus for generating gas as a motive power for gas-engines, which may be readily moved from place to place. I attain these objects by the use of the followin g mechanism.

Similar letters refer to similar or corresponding parts.

The figure is a viewin elevation of my apparatus complete.

A is a gas and oil reservoir, having a side gage, N, with cocks n, and inlet-pipe and cock L, and conveying or conducting gas-pipe K, with stop-valve S, also an inductionpipe, I, entering the bottom ,and gas-outlet pipe M at the top.

B is an air-reservoir, having the inductionpipe I of the reservoir A, connecting with the pipe F, forming a goose-neck.

On the top of the air-reservoirB is a vertical vent-pipe, Gr, terminating in a pop-valve, H.

Connecting with the air-reservoir B by the pipe E, having suitable valve therein,'is an air-pump, 0, having connected with the pis- (No model.)

til it supplies three gas-j ets of the Bunsen pattern beneath the air receiver or reservoir B.

O is a draw-off pipe and cock. J is abody of oil.

The manner of operating my inventionis as follows: I shut the valves S and O and I, and then open the valve in the inlet-pipe L and pour such quantity of volatile hydrocarbon oil in the vessel A as may be necessary, care being taken not to carry it above the upper draw'cock in the gage N. I then close the valve in pipe L, and commence pumping, by the use of the leverhandle V, air into the airreservoir B until the pop-valve II on thepipe G indicates I have the desired pressure. I then disconnect the lever-handle V and connect the pump C to line or engine-shaft by means of band and band-wheel T. I then open the valve S of the connecting or conveying pipe K, which permits the gas generated to pass on to the engine for use. Motion being given to the engine it transmits to the band-wheel T of the pump C, thereby keeping up the flow or pressure of air into the receiver B, and from thence into the vessel A. If in its practical operation I find that my gas is not strong enough to aiiord sufiicient combustion, Ithen open the valve P in the pipe M, and conduct gas down to three Bunsen burners, at, underneath the air-reservoir B, and ignite as many as necessary, and heat the air in its passage through the reservoir B, which in a heated state fiows into the body of volatile oil in the gas and oil reservoir, causing the oil therein to volatilize with greater rapidity. I carry the induction-pipe I in the form indicated to prevent the oil from flowing back into the air-reservoir B.

In addition to the above, if deemed necessary, I can tap the pipe K and lead therefrom another pipe to gas jets or burners for illuminating purposes,i'or use in connection with the apparatus.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

retor with the air-reservoir, and a gas-conducting pipe leading from the carburetor, and pr0- Vided with burners located beneath the air- I'eservoir, as described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above as my own I affiX my signature in the presence of 20 two witnesses.

' IRA JAMES;

In presence of HARRY J AMEs, JAMES BEATTY.