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Description

Patented May 9, |899.

J. MUSSETTE.v

AGETYLENE GAS GENERATOR.

(Application led Oct. D4, 1898.)

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OLIVER J. MOUSSETTE, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

ACETYLEN E-GAS G EN ERATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 624,846, dated May 9, 1899.

Application filed October 24, 1898.

`Queens and State of New York, have invented .new and useful Improvements in Acetylene- Gas Generators, of which the following is a specification.

By means of this invention a generator is obtained which is simple in construction and reliable in operation, as set forth in the following speciiication and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which-- Y Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the generator. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan View of Fig. 1.

In the drawings is shown a fixed or ringshaped bottom portion 1, to which is secured or screwed a removable bottom 2, which is shown with a handle 3. The bottom- 1 carries two shells or walls 4 and 5,which form a liquid or water seal when the space between these walls is supplied with liquid, as water, or preferably oil, as the latter does not freeze and is thus seviceable if the generator should be exposed.

The gasometer is shown with itstop or roof at 6 and its side 7 dipping' into the seal 4 5, such gasometer rising and falling as it lls or empties. The material or carbid can be stored in holder 8, mounted directly on the gasometer, so as to rise and fall therewith.

` An outlet 9is secured .directly to holder 8 and portion or end to allow the liquid in the reservoir free passage under or through such standard. As the gasometer exhausts and sinks with the holder 8 the arm 14 contacts with standard 15 to open door or valve 11 and allow material to drop from the holder into the reservoir, whereupon a fresh charge of gas is generated, which causes the gasometer to rise and free arm 14 from contact with standard 15. The door then closes to shut off further discharge from hopper until the gasometer again exhausts and sinks.

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The gas-pipe 16 enters the gasometer outside or clear of reservoir 10 and can feed from the gasometer and is shown with branches 17 and 18, which latter can be shut oft by valve 19 and is generally not used in case the generator is transportable or not xed in position. The pipe 17 is shown rising along the outside of shell 4 andV of its superstructure 20, which is shown as a continuation of and can be closed like shell 4, but is preferably broken or open to give access to holder 8 or its cover 21.

The superstructure 2O is shown with rim or top 22, the pipe 17 leading into a chamber l or channel 23 in such top. When the cap 24 is screwed or placed onthetop 22 and its pipe 25 communicates with passage 23, the gas passes through pipe 25 to nipple 26, adapted for applying a burner or utilizing the gas. The reservoir 10 can be cleaned or provided with liquid by unscrewing the bottom 2, carrying this reservoir. The removal of bottom 2 can be avoided by means of pipe 27, leading intoreservoir 10 and branching to a lilling and safety tube 28 and to a dischargeor cleaning tube 29,which can be Vclosed by valve 30. The filler 28 is of such height that the reservoir 10 can be filled'V therethrough to proper leVeL-butrnot to'overiiow. This filler 28 also acts as a safety-tube, since if excessive pressure occurs in the gasometer such pressure acting on the liquid in reservoir 10 will cause a rise of liquid through the tube 28, while gas in the gasometer is prevented from escaping through tube 28 by the liquid in the latter. The tube 2728 29 can be secured to bottom 2 to accompany reservoir 10, and the branches 2S 29 being outside shell 4 are readily accessible.

The generator 2O is shown with side lugs 31 l to enable the device to be set into a hollowV IOO move With the gasometer, a door or outlet provided With an arm, a reservoir in the gasolneter under the holder, and a tubular standard secured in the reservoir adapted to be engaged by the arm to open the door and having itslower part broken or open to coinmunicate With the reservoir substantially as described.

2. A gas-gen erator comprising a gasometer, a holder for carbid carried by the gasonieter, a door actuated by the holder, a reservoir, a seal for the gasometer, a cleaning-tube leading into the lower part of the reservoir and provided With a valve and a filler and safety tube branched upon said cleaning-tube and extending along the outside of the seal substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

OLIVER J MOUSSETTE.

Witnesses:

W. C. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

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