US459694A - Vapor-burner - Google Patents

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W'..M. ABBDTT. VAPOR BURNER.

10.459,694. Patented sept. 15, l1891.

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W. M. ABBOTT. VAPOR BURNER.

No. 459,694. Patented Sept. 15, 1891.

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VARREN M. ABBOTT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETS, ASSIGNOR TO THE DOMESTIC HYDROOARBON HEAT COMPANY, OF KITTERY, MAINE.

VAPOR-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 459,694, dated September 15, 1891.

Application filed July 18,1890. Serial No. 359,211. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, WARREN 111. ABBOTT, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vapor-Burners, of which the followingl is a specification.

This invention has special relation to vaporburners of the kind shown'and described in United States Letters Patent No. 373,874, granted to me November 29, 1887, though parts and features of the improvements are applicable to vapor-burners of other forms.

It is the Object of my invention to provide improvements whereby access may be more readily had than heretofore to the Waterchamber in the retort or mixing-chamber in order to repair or rearrange the water-chamber or its equipments.

It is also the object of my invention to provide improvements whereby the water in the water-chamber may be more thoroughly vaporized or nebulized before issuing from the water-chamber than heretofore.

It is also the object of myinvention to provide such improvements as will secure a uniform supplyof vapor to the burners, whether the device should be in level position or moved out of level.7

Itis also the object of my invention to provide other improvements in vapor-burners incidental to the foregoing, as will the more readily appear from the description hereinafter given.

Reference is to be had tothe annexed d rawings,`and to the letters of reference marked thereon, forming a part of this specification, the same letters designating the same parts orfeatures, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

Of the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical central sectional view, parts being represented in elevation, of my improved vapor-burner, the section being taken on the line 1 1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a horizontal seetion of the same, taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows in sectional View a modilied manner of connecting the water-cham ber with the retort or mixing-chamber. Fig. 4 is acrosssection showing a modiiied form of drip-pan,x

jacket, and deliector. Fig. 5 is a top plan view of my improved water-chamber.

In the drawings, referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 5, a designates the drip-pan; b, the jacket seated thereon; c, the retort or mixing-chambe d, the deflector or spreader arranged upon the retort; e, the water-supply pipe; f, the water-chamber in the retort, with which the pipe e communicates; g, the oil-supply pipe communicating with the retort; h h, the burners, ande' the pipe communicating between the retort and burners for the purpose of supplying the latter with vapor.

The drip-pan a is provided at points, preferably at the corners, with a flange j, which extends upwardly outside of the lower edge of the jacket b, so as to maintain the lat-terin place on the pan, which is serratedornotched at its edge, as at 7c, said notches vaffording means for supplying air to the burners.

The water-chamberf, instead of being constructed-integrally with the pipe e and provided with a cap, is made as a separate part, screw-threaded exterior-ly at its base, as at Z, and provided with perfor-ations in its upper end, as at m. This construction enables the water-chamber to be tapped into the base of the retort, as shown in Fig. 1, and the water-pipe e to be tapped into the lower end of the water-chamber, so that in order to gain access to the water-chamber it is not necessary to disconnect the same from the retort, (a thing very difficult of accomplishment, since the chamber quickly becomes burned on the retort,) but the end mentioned may be accomplished by simply unserewing the pipe e fromthe chamberf.

The chamber f may be provided with asbestus n or other suitable material and covered witha piece of wire-gauze or other foraminous material a', which provision serves to assist in breaking the vapor 'escaping from v ing and arranging it as shown and described I am enabled to uniformly supply the burners with vapor and render it unobjectionable to have the burner placed in other than a level position.

The burners 7L are connected with the crosspipe o, so that they may be moved axially, this construct-ion and arrangement being provided in order to vary the direction of the flame, which is governed by the course of the vapor issuing from the apertures p in the burners, and so project the llame with greater or less directness against the retort c. In the present instance the burner-pipes have a screw-threaded connection with cross-pipe o similar to that by which pipe 1I is connected with the cross-pipe o.

Instead of connecting the water-chamberf with the bottom of the retort, so as to stand vertically therein, as shown in Fig. l, it may be connected with the end of the retort and be made to take a horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 3, in which case the oil-supply pipe g and vapor-supply pipe 2' may be connected with the bottom of the retort orbe otherwise suitably connected and arranged.

In instances where it desirable to admit air to the burners from the center of the device the drip-pan a is provided with depressions q along lines adjacent and in proximity to the burner-pipes h, and the inner walls of such depressed portions are provided with air-inlets 1321s is shown in Fig. 4. By thus arranging the air-inlets the dames are more equally and uniformly supplied with air, and they are forced against or toward the walls of the inclosing covering. In this case the air may or may not be admitted at the outer edges.

Instead of providing a jacket and detlector constructed as separate parts formed and arranged as shown in Figs. l and 2, I may construct the jacket as a cover for the burners, retort, and their adjunets, having its upper portion provided with numerous apertures S,

the cover being' so arranged that its lower edge will rest upon the drip-pan, as is also shown in Fig. 4, the objectof said cover being to inc-lose the retort and form a seat or bearing for anything that is to be heated.

It is obvious that various changes may be made in the form and arrangement of parts shown in the drawings wit-hout departing from the nature and spirit of my invention.

Having thus explained the nature of my improvements and described ways of constructing and using the same, I declare that what I claim is- 1. In a vapor-burner, the combination, with the retort having oil supply and discharge pipes and burners, of the water-chamber opening into said retort and provided with exit-apertures, asbestus-or similar material in the water-chamber, and a sheet or coveringu of foraminous material between the asbestus and said exit-apertures, as set forth.

2. 'lne herein-described improved vaporburn er, comprising the retort and its adj uncts, the parallel burners h, connected to said retort, and the drip-pan provided with a series of obliquely-arranged air-inlet holes or ports between the burners, as set forth.

The herein-described improved Vaporburner, comprising the retort and its adj uncts, the burners connected therewith, the drippan, and the removable cover entirely inclosing said retort and burners and adapted to rest at its lower edge upon and supported by the drip-pan and provided in its upper part with apertures, as and for the purpose setforth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 15th day of July, A. D. 1890.

VARREN M. ABBOTT.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR W. CRossLEY, A. D. HARRISON.

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