US527639A

US527639A - Carburetor

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Publication number: US527639A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1894-10-16
Anticipated expiration: 1911-10-16

Description

(No Model.

E. M. WESTGOTT.

GARBU-RBIOR. No. 527,639.

Patented Oct. 16,1894.

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UNITED STAT S PATENT OF ICE.

EUGENE M. \VESTCOTT, 'OF HAMPTON, IOWA.

CAVRBUERETOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 527,639, dated October 16, 1894.

Application filed uly 10, 1894. Serial No. 517,050- (No model.)

To all, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE M. WESTOOTT,

l a full, clear, and exact description. j

is intended to make carbureted air which urns like ordinary illuminating gas.

be carbureted may be readily controlled; also to provide a means for regulating the air supply, to construct the apparatus so that it cleaned, and further it has for its object to provide a machine of the character stated in which the water supply to the carburetor can be regulated as to cover the distributor held therein and protect it from becoming clogged by freezing.

To these ends my invention consists of certain features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a partof this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1' is a perspective view of the apparatus embodying my invention; and Fig. 2 is a broken longitudinal section through the carburetor proper or generator, showing the arrangement of the air distributor and the means for removing it. Fig. 3 is a detail elevation of the lower ends of the carburetor and the water tank and the connecting pipe.

The apparatus is provided with a gasoline supply tank 10, from one end of which, at the bottom, leads a pipe 11 which delivers into the carburetor proper 12, this being preferably of cylindrical shape and its lower end is at a lower level than the tank 10, while.

of Hampton, in the county of Franklin and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Im proved Carburetor, of which the following is My invention relates to an improvement in -so-called gas machines, although my machine I k The objects of myinvention are to produce ,machine of great simplicity, which is ar-; 'anged in such a manner that the depth of 1 gasoline through which the air is forced tomay be readily, quickly and thoroughly" with the upper part of the carburetor by a vent pipe 13 having the usual check valve 14 therein. Atone side of the carburetor 12 is a water tank 15, which, at its lower end,

communicates with the carburetor and the upperend of the water tank connects, by

means of a pipe 16, with the source of air supply, the air being forced in under pressure, and the pipe is controlled by a valve 17 and has also a pet cook .18 which 7 may be opened to reduce the air pressure, if desired, as hereinafter described, and which may also be opened to permitthe. water andthe gasoline residuum to be forced out, as will appear presently. I V

- Leading into the bottomof the carburetor is anelbow pipe 19 which supplies air and is fed by

pipes

20 and 21 connected byth'e'us'ual couplings and controlled byavalve 22. The gas or carbureted air escapes from the upper part of the carburetor through a pipe 23 which is controlled by a valve 24:. In the bottom of the carburetor is an air distributer comprising a conical rose 25, which has a nipple 26 on the under side to enable it to be screwed onto the pipe 19 which projects upward through the bottom of the carburetor, and this rose is provided with a stem 27 which extends nearly to the top of the carburetor, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, and terminates in a handle 28 by which it may be .turned and the rose unscrewed from its seat and removed, thus'enabling it to be easily and force the water into the carburetor, and

thus the gasolineis raised in the carburetor so as to make the necessary depth of gasoline, and if it is desired to increase the depth of the gasoline, the air pressure in the water tank is reduced by opening the pet cook 18, while if the depth of thegasoline is to be reduced the air pressure in the tank 15 is increased so as to force more water in the carburetor and raise the gasoline. The depth of the gasoline may thus be readily regulated by the water and air pressure, and as the water as it is forced into the carburetor covers the air distributer, it serves to protect such distributer from becoming clogged by freezing. It will be understood that direct water pressure without the use of air may be used in substantially the manner indicated, if desired, without afiecting the principle of the invention. The air is turned on through the pipe 21 and, rising through the water and gasoline, picks up sufficient hydrocarbon to render it fit for illuminating purposes and passes out through the pipe 23.

When it is desired to clean the apparatus, the valve 17 is closed, the pet cock 18 opened and the air pressure turned on through the pipe 21, which forces the water backthrough the tank, the pipe 16 and the pet cook 18, carrying with it the gasoline residuum.

When it is necessary to clean the air distributer it may be removed bytaking 01f the cap of the carburetor 12 and then unscrewing the distributer, as specified above.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. An apparatus of the kind described, comprising a gasoline supply tank, a carburetor extending above and below the supply tank and connected therewith, a water tank connected with the carburetor at the lower end of both tank and carburetor, an air supply pipe connected with the water tank at the top, an air supply pipe connected with the lower portions of the tank with the carbu- 4o retor, means for delivering water under pressure to the lower portion of the carburetor, an air supply pipe delivering into the bottom of the carburetor, and a. discharge pipe leading from the upper portion of the carburetor, substantially as described.

3. An apparatus of the kinddescribed, comprising a gasoline supply tank, a carburetor extending above and below the level of the tank, a pipe connection between the carburetor and tank, a water tank connected wit the lower end of the carburetor, an air su 0 ply pipe provided with an escape cock and H connected with the upper end of the water tank'and an air supply pipe connected with the lower end of the carburetor, an air distributor at the discharge end of the air supply pipe in the carburetor, and a discharge pipe leading from the upper part of the carburetor, substantially as described.

EUGENE M. VVESTCOT'II.

Witnesses:

H. B. CORNISH, W. E. PINCKNEY.

Afii avit having been filed showing that the name of the patentee in Letters Patent N 0. 527,639, granted October 16, 1894, for an improvement in Carburetors,

should have been written and printed Eugene M. Wesbott instead of Eugene M. Westcott it is hereby certified that the proper correction has been made in the files and records pertaining to the case in the Patent Oflice, and should be read in the Letters Patent that the same may conform thereto.

Signed, oountersigned, and sealed this 17th day of December, A. D. 1895.

JNO. M. REYNOLDS, Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

[SEAL] Uountersigned J 01m S. SEYMOUR,

Commissioner of Patents.