US461263A - Steam-engine - Google Patents

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M. J. HINDEN.

STEAM ENGINE. l

No. 461,263. Patented Oct, 13, 1891.

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STEAM ENGINE.

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' nArHIAs J. HINDEN, oF CLEVELAND, orno.

STEAM-ENGINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 461,263, dated October 13, 1891. 'A

Application iiled December 2, 1890. Serial No. 373,321. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATHIAS J. IIINDEN, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam-Engines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in steam-engines.

The invention has for its object the con` struction ot` a steam-generator especially designed for use in producing and supplying steam to an engine only in such'quantity as is required for immediate use in driving` an engine-or, in other words, that will generate steam only as water is fed to the generator and as the same is required by the engineand wherein the employment of a so-called steam-boiler7 is obviated.

The invention has still a further object in the providing of means for converting the exhaust-steam into hydrogen gas, which latter is commingled with the products of combustion and burns with the primary lire employed for heating the generator. In a broad sense the invention may properly be classed asa hash-engine.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and various combinations of the parts, all as more fully hereinafter described, and pointed outin the claim.

Figure I is a top plan ot my improved engine. Fig. 2 is a side elevaiion. Fig. 3 is an elevation at right angles to Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line c of Fig. 1 with the engine removed. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation of" the gas-generator detached.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, A represents a steam-generator, which consists of an iron ring a, to which are bolted or otherwise secured with, steam-tight joints the lower plate b and the upper plate c, which may be of any suitable metal, though I prefer steel.

For the purpose of compactness I show an `an engine B as mounted upon the top of the generator A. A steam-pipe C conveys steam from the generator to the valve-chest of the engine.

Eis apump, which in large engines should be arranged to be automatically operated by the engine; but in the drawings it is shown as separated therefrom and is designed to be operated by hand. The suction-pipe of this pump communicates with a suitable waterreservoir F, while the feed or discharge pipe F of the pump passes to the interior' ofthe generator A beneath the upper plate thereof, its inner end being turned down at or about the axial center of the lower plate of the generator, as shown.

G is the exhaust-pipe from the engine. The outer end of this exhaust-pipe is connected to one end of a gas-gen erating cylinder II, which latter is filled or partially filled with tacks, nails, or particles of iron. The opposite end of the cylinder H is provided with a pipe I, which latter is bent so as to bring its free end below the cylinder H and at or about its lougitudinal center.

In the drawings I represent the steam-generator as mounted upon legs J, and in small engines where gas can be employed as the -below the center of the generator, and after it has been heated I force Water from the pump into the feed-pipeF, the free end of which is provided with a sm'all hole or opening, through which the Water escapes ldrop by drop or in a very small spray and falls upon the heated lower plate ot the steam-generator y and which immediately converts the water into steam. From the generator the steam passes to the engine through the steam-pipe C. The exhaust-steam from the engine passes to the enlarged cylinder H, where it is impeded by the heated particles of iron within such cylinder, generating a hydrogen gas,

which escapes through the pipe I and com- IOO *i November, 1890.

cylinder being filled or partially filled with particles of iron, and a steam-exhaust pipe communicating with both ends of said cylinder as a means for converting the exhauststeam into hydrogen gas, substantially as and for the purposes described. Y

In'testimonytvhereof I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 29th day of MATHIAS J.YH1NDEN.

QVitnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, F. B. S. MORGAN.

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