US552572A

US552572A - Eugene austin

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Publication number: US552572A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-01-07
Anticipated expiration: 1913-01-07

Description

B. AUSTIN. OIL SEPARATOR (No Model.)

Patented Jan. 7, 1896.

Ni'rED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE AUSTIN, oE DETROIT, MioriieAn, nssienonro THE AUSTIN SEPARATOR COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

QlL-SEPARATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,572, dated January '7, 1896.

Application filed September 24, 18941 Serial No. 523,859. (No model.)

To 00% whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE AUSTIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of IVayne, State of Michigan, have in vented a certain new and useful Improvement in Oil-Separators; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in oilseparators for steam-pipes, and is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section. Fig. 2 is an elevation, partly in section. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the false bottom.

In-thc drawings, A is the case or shell, which I prefer to make of boiler-iron, especially for the larger sizes.

B is the steam-inlet, and B the stea1n-outlet.

O is the upper headand C the lower head, the latter provided with a discharge-pipe c.

D is the false bottom, having the same dish as the heads. This false bottom is perforated, as shown in Fig. 3.

E and E are depending walls inclined inward to meet at cl, forming the chamber F within. The depending wall E, which faces the inlet-pipe 13, I provide with perforations, preferably made in the form of slats and openings like a window-blind. The slats e I prefor to make of sufficient width to extend outward beyond the plane of the wall.

G is a vertical drain-pipe from the chamber F through the false bottom D into the chamber H.

The operation of my device is as follows: The steam entering the inlet-pipe B impinges against the perforated wall E and the dead steam in the chamber F, and is deflected downward over the face of the false bottom to the outlet, while the water of condensation and the oil contained in the steam are in great part projected through the perforations in the wall E and deposited in the chamber F. The combined water and oil then pass through the drain-pipe G into the chamber H, from which they are drawn off through the drain-pipe c.

I am aware that a separator having a close pendent wall situated between a steam inlet and outlet has been provided with a perforated or slotted wall situated in the inlet, the outlet also having a like perforated wall, and I do not broadly claim devices of this character. My improvement provides within a suitable case or shell a close and a perforated wall or diaphragm, each extending across the main chamber inclosed in the shell and con nected to its walls at the sides and top, and connected also to each other at their lowest edges, all inamannerto inclose between them a space or dead-steam chamber adapted to hold a body of steam to act as a cushion to prevent the entrance of the steam-current. The water and oil which are separated from the steam and thrown into this inner chamber by reason of their'greater momentum descend to and through the pipe G to the space below the false bottom D, and are thereby kept from contact with the steam-current, the chamber F, pipe G and false bottom D co'operating to this end. The space below the false bottom 11) and between it and the water-level or between it and the head 0 will in operation be filled with steam which though it will not impede the downward passage of the water will practically co-operate with the diaphragm or false bottom D to exclude the steam-current on its way to the free exit B from contact'with the separated oil and water.

What I claim is- 1. In a device for separating liquids from steam a case having an unobstructed steam inlet and outlet, a chamber situated between said inlet and outlet contained between a perforate and imperforate diaphragm, the former being on the steam inlet, and the latter on the steam outlet side, and a pipe to convey liquid from said chamber without contact with the steam current.

2. In a device for separating liquids from steam a case having an unobstructed steam inlet and outlet, a chamber situated between said inlet and outlet contained between a per- In testimony whereof I sign this specifieaforate and imperforate diaphragm, the fortion in the presence of two Witnesses. mer being on the steam inlet and the latter 011 the steam outlet side, a pipe to convey liquid EUGENE AUSTIN. 5 from said chamber Without contact with the Vitnesses:

steam current, a drain pipe G, and a perfo- O. H. FIsK,

rated false bottom D. E. H. JEWETT.