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Publication number: US367945A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-08-09
Anticipated expiration: 1904-08-09

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0. M. YOUNG.

BURNER FOR NATURAL GAS. No. 367,945. Patented Aug. 9, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

CHARLES M. YOUNG, OF COREY, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO HARMON, GIBBS 8E 00., OF SAME PLACE.

BURNER FOR NATURAL GAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,945, dated August 9, 1887.

Application filed November 1, 1886. Serial No 217,706. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. YOUNG, of Corry, county of Erie, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improve ment in Burners for Natural Gas, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates to a novel construction 0 of natural'gas burner, whereby it is adapted to assist in the operation of effecting a thorough mixing of the gas with the atmospheric air admitted to the burner, and to the arrangement of the outlet or discharge openings at the periphery of the burner, whereby the jets are made to converge in pairs, and thereby to draw in an additional supply of oxygen from the air for effecting a more perfect combustion of the gas.

20. It consists in the combination of two coneavo-convex disks or plates joined at their edges on their recessed or concaved faces to form a chamber between them, one of said plates forming the base-plate and having a central inlet-openingthrough which the gas is admitted to the chamber, and the other forming the cap-plate, being provided with a pendent convex deflector overlying the inlet-opening and concavity of the base-plate, and being arched between said convex deflector and its outer edge or rim, wherebya rolling motion is imparted to thevolume of gas and air admitted for effecting a more thorough mixing of the same, and having discharge-openings 5 from said mixing-chambers at the edges or rims of the plates or disks formed in pairs, those of each pair converging outwardly in lines oblique to radial lines, all as hereinafter described and claimed. In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved burner, showing the connections partly in section. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the burner; Fig. 3, an inner face view of the cap-plate, and Fig. 4 a similar View of the base-plate, of the burner.

A indicates the concavoeonvex base-plate, made, preferably, circular in form, though other forms may be used, if desired, and provided with a central opening, a, screw-threaded for adapting it to be screwed upon the corre- 5o 4 spondingly screw threaded end of a supplypipe, as indicated. 4

B is the cap-plate, which is also made concavo-convex and of a shape corresponding to that of the base-plate A, to which it is secured 5 5 with its concave side facing the concave side of the baseplate by means of through bolts or screws a a, or in any other suitable manner. The cap-plate or dome B is provided with a central pendent portion, b, directly overlying the inlet-opening and concavity in the base, but sufficiently removed therefrom not to interfere with the free admission of the gas, and made convex on its face overlying said opening, so as to deflect the jet coming through said opening as nearly evenly as may be upon all sides thereof. The concavity of the baseplate adjacent to the inlet-opening facilitates the spreading and mixing of the gases in the evenly as practicable toward the periphery of the burner on all sides, and, secondly, as they are deflected outward and upward until they strike the roof of the arch, and are there turned downward and outward toward the periphery, 8O

to produce a rolling motion of the volume of air and gas, and so to effect a thorough mixing of the same before they reach the dischargeopenings at the edge or periphery of the burner. The outer edges of the plates A and 8 5 B converge or have rims on their adjacent faces, and one or both of these, preferably the cap-plate B, has a series of outlet openings or passages through which the gas escapes at the periphery of the burner,-where it is ignited. 0 These openings, instead of being radial to the inlet-openin g, are arranged in pairs, a a,whicl1 converge outwardly in lines oblique to radial lines and tend to cause the jets therefrom to converge until they meet and combine their 5 flames, or nearly so. By this arrangement of the openings the pairs of escaping-jets are made to induce a current of air between them,

affording an increased supply of oxygen to and thereby effecting a more perfect combustion of the gas.

Air is supplied to the interior of the burner in any suitable manner. I have shown the pipe 0, with which the burner is connected, provided at a suitable distance therefrom, preferably outside of the stove or heater to which the burner is to be applied, and which may be of any usual or preferred kind, with a drum, D, preferably of the hollow spherical form indicated, but which may be in cylindrical or other suitable form, and through which the gas received from a pipe, 0, is forced in its passage to the burner. The pipe 0 is preferably of less diameter than pipe 0, and the escape of the gas therefrom is controlled by a valve, 3, of any suitable form or construction.

The drum D is provided on its side connected with the pipe 0 and around the latter with a series of perforations, d, through which air is admitted to the drum, drawn in by the movement of the current of the gas through the drum into the pipe C and into the mixingchamberof the burner, and is there thoroughly mixed with the gas through the action of the deflecting and arching surfaces of the burner thereon, as above explained.

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

A natural-gas burner composed of the concavo-convex base A, having a central inletopening, a, for the admission of gas, and the concavo'convex cap B, having the convex deflector I), located centrally above the gas-inlet opening and concavity of the base-plate, the arched or grooved portion 1), substantially as described, and having jet-openings formed between the abutting edges or flanges of the base and cap pieces and arranged to converge in pairs in lines oblique to radial lines, for the purpose and substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 29th day of October, A. D. 1886.

CHARLES M. YOUNG.

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