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G.- L. MOODY. ANNULAR PETROLEUM BURNER'.

No. 61,6132. Patented Jan. 29, 1867.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GEORGE L. MOODY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ANNULAR PETROLEUM-BURNER FOR HOT AIR, STEAM, ANI) vHYDl'iOCRBON FLUl-DS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 61,682, dated January 29, 1867.

To whom' 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. MOODY, ot' the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement for Burning Hydrocarbons for Generating Steam by theheans of an An nular Petroleum-Burner and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description ot' the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part thereof, and in each of which' like letters represent like parts.

Figure 1 represents the outer appearanceof the burner alone disconnected from the supplypipes and from the boiler. Fig. 2 represents the longitudinal section ot the burner with the addition of a button, B B.` Fig. 3 represents another form of orifice for the discharge of superheated steam in connection with the orices of discharge of the oil and of. heated air,-in which D D is a perforated hollowr re ceiver, from which the apertures o o o o o discharge through it and into s3 s3.

The nature of my invention consists, irst, in the total and economical combustion of petroleum oil, or a hydrocarbon tluid under pressure, in such a manner as to leave no rcsidunm, and make no smoke without subjectvin g the hydrocarbon to a temperature which will volatilize it, or consume any portion of it before its arrival in a fire-box Orfurnace, where the oil is irst ignited with a torch or match, and heated air is forced through a concentric pipe which discharges under pressure close to the oil-oritice. Superheated steam is at the saine time discharged through-another concentric pipe close to this orifice, so' as to mingle with the oil or hydrocarbon. Gombustion takes place with some noise, arisingfrom a continuous series of light detonations.

This result is not so fully attained where the burner is straight.

The quantity of each of the elements is graduated either by an adjustable orifice or by stop-cocks in the supply-pipe, or by both.

The oil-orifice may be axial or exterior. Any of the orifices may be used for the discharge of either of the elements.

Theseburners maybe arranged to discharge their flame at any point inside the` iirebox, and may be applied to locomotive or stationf ary boilers (as well as to the various purposes where an intense heat is required) by iirst tapping. the boiler with a thread to tit one on` the outs-ide ofthe burner, or by putt-ing slierttubes through the boiler-plates and screwing the pipe through this tube, which likewise acts as a brace.

In Fig. 2 of my drawings, a a represent the outer pipe; b b, the second pipe, separated from a, a by the annular space s1 s.

c c represents a third concentric pipe, (sepia arated from b b by the annular space 82.82,) through which superheated steam is supplied to the space s3 s3,whic li is a third annular space between the button-B B and the continuation of the pipe c c.

B B represents a button used for making the steam-orifice annular.

d represents the pipewhich supplies the hy drocarbon to the space .9.1 sl,- e, the pipe supplyinghot air to the space s2 s2.

f represents a nut working, bya thread, g, on the pipe a, attached to the pipe b by the Arings h h, which prevents any but an arial motion on the pipe b. -By turning this nutl the orifice vformed by a b is adjusted, opened, or

The concentric parallel motion 'of bis secured by the guides n n 'n and the fixed ring k represents the packing; 1,.the follower, held in place by m, on which a thread is cut.

To operate this burner, let on the oil through d. Ignite itin the fire-box or furnace.' Soon the hot-air blast (the air being heated from waste heat) may be applied, and shortly theV superheated steam. It' another boiler is near, vthe heated air and steam may be taken from that tire.

The amount of oil, hot air, and superheated steam may be regulated as is found necessary. In Figs. 1 and 2 a thread is shown out upon the outside of the pipe a a', for screwing through the outer and inner shells of the and making no smoke, 'substantially in the and oil or a hydrocarbon unid with the admanner above set forth. `instable orifice, as a whole, and its applica 2.x The adjustable o rice through which the tion substantially in the manner and for the oil is discharged, male 4substantially in the purposes herein mentioned.

manner and for the purpose above described. GEORGE L. MOODY.

3. The mechanicalcombination and arrange- Witnesses: v ment of the different concentric pipes for the THEODORE L. MOODY, discharge of heated aix', superheated steam, E. D. BOYD.

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