US317567A

US317567A - Vapor-burner

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Publication number: US317567A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-05-12
Anticipated expiration: 1902-05-12

Description

(No Model.)

O. B. PECK.

. VAPOR BURNER. 7 No. 317.567. Patented May 12, 1885;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

V ORRIN B. PEOK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

VAPOR-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,567, dated lWay 12, 1885.

Application filed December 20, 1884.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORRIN B. PEoK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vapor-Burners, of which the following is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows my vaporburner as it appears when put together for use, and Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same.

A represents the oil vessel or retort; B, the water-vessel; O, the oil-supply pipe; D, the water-supp] y pipe; E, the pipes leading to the burners; F, the T-heads in which the orifices at which the oil or vapor burned are situated, and G the drip-pan.

In constructing avaporburner containing my improvements, I first cast a cup, bowl, or vessel of the proper size, regard. being had to the character of the service to which it is to be applied, containing openings,which are intended in use to be in the bottom of the vessel, which I term the oil-receiving retort or chamber, and whose use I will proceed to explain. The largest of the holes, which is placed preferably in the center of the bottom, is intended for the insertion of the head or upper end of the watercontaining vessel, and to that end is properly provided with screw-threads. A water-containing portion or vessel is cast preferably in the shape of an inverted cone, the upper end being provided with a removable plug and containing screw-threads adapted to screw into the appropriate hole in the oil-retort. NVhen screwed into place, the top of the plug of thewater-vessel, which may be made oval, eX- tends up a slight distance from the surrounding bottom, and is provided at its top with a number of perforations, through which the vapor, when generated, will rush out with considerable force. The lower and smaller end of the water-vessel is properly connected with a water-supply pipe, as shown in the draw ings. An oil-supply pipe enters the oil-retort at the bottom to lead the oil from a suitable reservoir into the same. Two pipes at either side of the water-vessel also enter the oil-retort, and are screwed in until they rise one or two inches above its bottom. They are open at the top, and are provided with one or more (No model.)

fine perforations-say about a quarter of an inch above the bottom of the oil-retort-so that after the oil from the supply-pipe has accumulated to a corresponding depthit flows out through the pcrforations,and is prevented from overflowing the top of the water-vessel and entering the same through the perforations above mentioned as provided in its head. These eduction-pipes are extended up from the bottom, as described above, and left open at the top, so that the vapor, which is too large in volume to pass out through the perforations, will rise to the top of the retort, which is heated necessarily to a much greater heat than the bottom, where the introduction of the oil reduces the temperature, and so become superheated before escaping to the burners. At the bottom of these two depending pipes T- heads are placed, which are also provided with perforations or orifices, through which the oil flowing on t of the oil-retort, as above described, may escape, and at which it may be burned. A pan may be placed just below these T-heads to catch the dripping oil.

The whole burner or retort may be placed in a stove or other appropriate place for use.

In operation the oil is admitted through the supply-pipe to the oil-retort, where it accumulates on the bottom until it reaches and flows out by the perforations and down the depending pipes until it appears at the orifices in the T-heads and begins to drip into the pan. It is then set on fire by dropping a lighted match into the drip-pan, and burns with great intensity. The water is turned into the watervessel at the time the oil is lighted and before it has become heated. The burning oil in a very short time heats both the water-vessel and the oil-retort sufficiently hot to turn the water and the oil into vapor as fast as they flow into their respective vessels. The vapor from the water rushes out through the orifices in the head of the water-vessel with such force as to become thoroughly eommingled with the vapor from the oil generated in the oil-retort, and together they enter the depending pipes, whose tops are open, and pass out through the orifices in the T-heads, where they are burned. Thus the combustion of the oil begins the generation of the vapor in the water and oil ves- 10 perforated head, opening into the oil-retort,

water and oilsupply pipes, and burners,whereby the vapors arising from the decomposed oil and water are thoroughly commingled and the burners supplied with vapor taken principally from the top of the oil-retort, substantially as described.

ORRIN B. PECK. \Vitnesses:

PIERCE BUTLER, E. F. HUBBARD.