US58209A - Improved apparatus for carbureting gas - Google Patents

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Patented Sept. 25, 1866.

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`JOHN F. BOYNTON, OF SYRAOUSE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CARBURETING GAS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,209, dated September 25, 1366.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. BoYNToN, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented an Improved Apparatus for Oarbureting Gas, of which the following is a specification.

It is well known that illuminating gas standing a long time over cold water or conveyed a long distance through cold pipes will have much of its illuminating properties lcondensed and lost, and it is believed that the illuminating qualities of gas are hydrocarbons, such as benzole and toluole held in suspension by hydrogen and other gases, and that these elements are precipitated in the gasmains of the city, and may be found with the water at the water-traps at the street-mains instead of being carried forward into the houses and pla-ces of consumption, so that, however perfectly the gas may have been manufactured at the works, it will become deprived of a large portion of its value before it reaches the consumer.

Many devices have been'suggested for overcoming the difficulty by restoring to the gas its illuminating properties at some part of the gas-pipes before it reaches the burner. This is the objectof my invention; and it consists of an apparatus for thoroughly commingling the compound vapors of hydrocarbons with depreciated gases, and also for the purpose of carbonizng common air.

The following is an accurate description, to enable others skilled in such matters to construct the same, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings. v

I prefer to call my apparatus a gas -light multiplier.7

Figure l is a view of the inside of the apparatus as seen from above, showing the double-wall perforated partition dividing the multiplier into an outer and inner chamber, and showing the pegs sustaining fibrous material supported by base-board; Fig. 2, vertical longitudinal section of the interior of the same.

A, entrance; B, exit for gas or air; C, tube and opening for supplying hydrocarbons; D, the magazine of automatic filler E, base board perforated for sustaining wooden pegs supporting fibrous material, driven into the perforations, carrying the fibrous materia-l with it; F,`wooden pegs, with slot X in the top, supporting fibrous material; G, fibrous material;

H, compound double wall movable partition resting upon the base-board, dividing the 4vapor-chambers into six compartments, causing the gas as it passes through the apparatus to be extensively divided and brought in contact with the surfaces of the wooden pegs and fi brons material. Vood or lgneous substances are preferable for supporting the fibrous material, as, by their capillary action, they raise the liquids to the upper portion of the apparatus, and, with the fibrous material, exert a compound capillary action.

D, the magazine of the automatic iiller, as seen attached in Fig. 2, is a vessel to be filled with the carbonizing-luid, with a plug, I, closing it air-tight at the top, and at its bottom or tubular portion a cock, J, so arranged that it may be screwed or attached to the tube C, which extends nearly to the bottom of the reservoir, as seen by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. K is a cock in the external and upper portion of tube C, to prevent escape of gas when the magazine of the automatic filler is removed from tube O for iilling or other purposes.

To supply the automatic filler D it is only necessary to close the cock J, remove plug I, and introduce thcmliquid through a funnel. After replacing plug I, open cocks J and K, and the liquid will pass down tube O from the magazine, being displaced by the gas, until the reservoir is filled suficiently to close the mouth of tube O, when no more can escape until the gas has absorbed a sufficient quantity in the reservoir to free the mouth of tube O, and thereby allowing another portion of gas' to ascend into the magazine, displacing more liquid.

L L are outer and inner chambers; M, condensing and absorbing plate covered with fibrous material, resting upon and over the partitions land pegs.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

l. An apparatus for carbonizing gas and air, and which I prefer to call a gaslight multiplier, as hereinafter described.

2. A detachable reservoir, to operate sub stantially as described, for filling the carbonizer with liquid.

3. The lling-reservoirD, in combination with the cocks J and K.

4. The combination of ligneons material with fibrous material.

5. The compound capillary action of ligneous material with brous material.

6. The perforated base-board or its equivalent.

7. The use of pegs supported from a baseboard.

8. The arranging of the fibrous material parallel with the ligneous material, in the man ner described.

y 9. The slot in the top of the pegs for securing the brous material.

10. The securing of the brous material at the bottom ofthe peg by its being driven with the peg into a perforation of the base-board.

11. The combination of ligneous and tibrous material, producing a compound capillary action, attached to a base-board forming a cage, and so 4arranged that it can be placed in and taken from the reservoir or carbonizing-chamber.

12. A compound perforated partition, so arranged as to divide the carbonizing-chamber into an internal and external apartment.

13. The arrangement of the compound perforated partition, that it may be removed and replaced in the carbonizin g chamber without disturbing the cage.

14. A double partition, so arranged that the compound capillary action of the ligneous and iibrous material may take place between its Walls.

15. The making of these partitions of any material capable of producing capillary act-ion.

16. The use of capillary action of any material of which these partitions may be constructed. f

17. The using of ligneous material for a partition.

. JOHN F. BOYNTON. Witnesses:

H. 0. MARTIN, EWM. F. BROWN.

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