US349228A - Apparatus for making and burning gaseous fuel - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

- J. LO0KE.& s. 0., RICHARDSON, Jr.

APPARATUS FOR MAKING-AND BURNING GASEOUS FUEL. No. 349,228.

@1 Patented Sept. 14, 1886..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFice.

JOSEPH LOCKE, OF GLEN \VOOD, (MEDFORD,) AND SOLON O. RICHARDSON, JR, OF XVAKEFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FOR MAKING AND BURNING GASEOUS FUEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,228, dated September 14,1886.

Application filed April 2, 1386.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOSEPH LOOKE and SOLON O. RICHARDSON, Jr., respectively of Glenwood (Medford) and WVakefield, both in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and use-' ful Improvements in Apparatus for Making and Burning Gaseous Fuel, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a simple and efficient apparatus in which oil may be vaporized and burned and steam superheated and mingled with the flame of the vaporized oil, thereby producing perfect combustion and a high degree of heat at a small expense.

The invention also has for its object to provide convenient means for regulating the degree of heat by either concentrating or diffusing it.

To these ends our invention consists in an apparatus which in its simplest form includes, first, an externally heated oil vaporizing chamber or retort having means for the discharge of oil in jets against its inner surface, the oil being vaporized within an externallyheated retort, and orifices for the escape and combustion of the vapori zed oil; and, second- 1y, a steam-pipe communicating with a suitable steam-generator and extending for a portion ofv its length substantially parallel with and in close relation to the orifices in the vaporizing -rctort, whereat the vaporized oil is discharged and consumed. Said steam-pipc is highly heated by the heat supplied by the apparatus, so that the steam therein issuperheated. The steanrpipe is provided with oritices or nozzles for the escape of the steam in jets coinciding with the jets of flame from the ignited.

Our apparatus, as we prefer to organize it, includes two oil-vaporizing retorts and two independent steam-pipes arranged side by side, each chamber and its accompanying Serial No. 197,590. (No model.)

steampipe being preterably adjustable independently of the other, so that the heat produced by the two sets may be either concentrated or diffused by decreasing or increasing the distance between the sets, all of which we will now proceed to describe.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 vrepresents a perspective view of an organized apparatus embodying our invention, the chambers or retorts being partially broken out to show the perforations in the oil-pipes which lead into the said chambers. Fig. 2 represents a transverse section of the same taken on the dotted line 02.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, A A designate two iron chambers or retorts placed side by side at the required distance apart, and made, preferably, in the form shown in the drawings, the said retorts being preferably supported upon sliding blocks a a, adapted to move in ways or guides a a by the operation of levers B, one for each chznnber. These lovers are fulcrumed at b, and are connected bythe rods 1/ to each of the chambers or retorts A A. The movement of these levers in the one direction or the other serves to so move the chambers or retotts as to place them closer together or farther apart, and thereby either concentrate or diffuse the heat, as circumstances may require. Each chamber or retort is provided perforations or openings, 1), and at one end with a hole, 71, into which is passed a perforated pipe, G, the said pipes G extending from one end to the other of the chambers or retorts on the inside, and being connected on the outside by the elbows c c to the short pipes O C. These short pipes G 0, having their free ends inclosed within the T-coupling D, are capable of being moved within the said T- coupling when the chambers or rctorts are moved toward or from eachother. The pipe E, leading from a reservoir or source of supply of oil, (not shown in the drawings, is joined to the T-eoupling D, through which and the pipes O 0 oil is, passed to the pipes O 0 through the perforations or openings, in which it is discharged against the heated inner sur-' in the direction of its length with a series of faces 01' the ehambers or retorts A A. where it becomes vaporized. The vapor passes out through the openings 1. and is ignited at said openings the flames rising from the ehambers or retiorts. as shown in 2.

Innnediately in front (11' the ehambers or re torts A A. and pret'erably about on a level with the openings p in them. are plaeed two pipes, F 1 one for eaeh ehamber or retort. and eaeh being provided with a series of openings. p. eorresponding in number with the openings 1) in the chambers or retorts. These pipes F 1 are joined by the elbowsffto the pipes G t1. whieh praetieally surround the ehambers or retorts A A andeonneet with the steanrsupplv pipes H H. whieh lead from a suitable steam-generati1r. The steam passing through said pipes beeomes superheated and eseapes through the openings 1). said openings eoineiding with the openings 1), so that the jets ol' steam interseet and mingle with the jets ot'flame from the retorts, as indieated in Fig. 2.

As a means ot' heating the retorts A A before the apparatus is in operatiomwe provide pipes I 1 below eaeh ot'the retorts and extending along the t'ull length ot' the latter. said pipes being shown in the drawings as provided with a series 111' small pert'orations or jets, j. At one end these pipes are elosed by eaps. plugs. or other suitable means. and at the other ends they are eonneeted to pipes l l. whieh lead from small tank K. eontaining oil or petroleum. the supply of oil or petro leum to the jets or pert'orationsj in the pipes 1 I being regulated by the valves 1 in the pipes 1' I. The distanee between the ehambers or retorts A A having been determined upon by the attendant and duly regulated by the levers I B B, the valves 1 areturnedtosupply the pipes l l with oil t'rom the tanks K. and theoil at'ter passing to thejets or perl'orationsj is ignited.

whieh ignition et't'eets the rapid heating ot'the The oil or petroleum from the tanks 1 retorts.

deseribed. Alter the retorts have beeomesuttieiently heated to vaporize the oil. the use 01' the pipes I I may he diseontinued and said pipes may be removed, it desired, the heatt'rom the eombustion of the vaporized oil, aeeelerated by the admixture of the deeomposed steam therewith. being sut'tieient to eontinuously vaporize the oi1 supplied to the retorts and the steam supplied to the pipes II 11.

\Ve elaim 1. The eombination. in. an apparatus for making and burning gaseous the], 01' an externally-heated ehamber or retort having a series (11' burners or oritiees. a. smaller pipe eonneeted with a hydroearbon supply and extendinginto said ehamber or retort. and provided with a series of oritiees to diseharge the hydroearbon in jets against the inner surl'aee 111' said retort, a steam-supply pipe arranged external to said ehamber or retort and having a series ot'ori- [iees eoineiding with those of the retort, the arrangement being sueh that the hydroearbon beeomes vaporized in said retort and ignites at the jets or oritiees thereot'. so that the heat of the retort is maintained and the steam superheated aud mingled with the retort-flames. substantially as set; forth.

2. In an apparatus for making and burning gaseous t'uel. the eomhination ot' two retorts loeated side by side, eaeh having a series 111' burnertirifiees. and ,means tor delivering oil, in jets against its inner surt'aee, two steampipes. one For eaeh retort. said pipes having orifiees arranged to deliver deeomposed steam to thejets ot' tlame trom the retorts. and means For varying thedistunee between eaeh retort, with the steam-pipe aeeonnmnyi11git. and the other retort and steam-pipe. as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this speeilieation, in the presence of two subseribing witnesses. this th day 01' Mart-h. 188G.

JOSEPH LOOKE.

S0110); O. RICHARDSON, JR. \Vitnesses:

A. 1). 11.1 HRISUN.

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