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D. HALL.

'Apparatus for Carbureting Gas and Air.

No. 63,511. Patented- April 2, 1867.

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UNITED STATES PATENT 'EEroEQ DURELL HALL, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CARBURETING GAS AND AIR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 63,511, dated April 2, 1867.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DURELL HALL, of New York, in the county of New York, and in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Carbonizing Air and Gas; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In the annexed drawings, A represents a vessel, which is cylindrical in form, and which is provided about center Way with a diaphragm, a, which divides it into two chambers or compartments. The lower chamber is used as a carbonizing-chamber and the upper as a condensing-chamber, and one for receivin g the gas as it is formed below.

B represents a water jacket, which surrounds the vessel A. 0 represents a waterheater, situated outside of and near the jacket B. D and E represent two pipes, which pass from the water-heater, the lower one simply passing through the water-jacket, while the upper one passes through both the waterjacket and carbonizing-chamber, emptying on the opposite to where it passes in between the jacket and the vessel A.

F represents a pipe, which is provided with a stopcock, and which passes through the jacket and into the carbonizing-chamber, and is used for introducing petroline or other material into the carbonizing-chamber for the purpose of making gas. Gr represents an airpipe, which passes also through the jacket and into the carbonizingchamber. This pipe runs to the center of said chamber, and there branches off toward the four sides of the said chamber, terminating near its sides. This pipe,

G is provided with a valve, which allows air to pass in, but acts only in one way, and allows nothing to pass out through it.

said vessel so snugly as not to allow any es-- cape of gas.

I represents a pipe, which is coiled, as shown, with its-lower end near the diaphragm, and

its upper end passing through the cover H. This pipe is also provided with a valve which allows the escape of gas, but allows nothing to pass back through it. This pipe acts as a condensing-pipe for any portion of the crude material which may pass off in a gaseous form.

Should'a-ny portion of the petroline or other substance used pass off with the gas, it will almost entirely be condensed in the pipe I, and will run back, fall upon the diaphragm, and drip through its valve into the carbonizingchamber again. The gas, after it passes up pipe I, is conveyed by a connecting-pipe, J, to a vessel, K, which receives and retains it for use.

The mouth of vessel K sits in an annular water-chamber betweentwo vessels, for the purpose of preventing the escape of any portion of it.

A rod, 0', passes down from the center of vessel K through a tube'in one of the vessels, between which the water is held around it for the purpose of acting as a guide and steadying said vessel K as it rises and falls from being supplied with or having its gas exhausted.

L represents a pipe which connects with Vessel K for the purpose of conveying away any of the crude material which may have passed into said vessel and there becomecondensed.

This pipe is provided with a stop-cock, as

shown.

In using this apparatus, petroline or other suitable material is placed in the carboniziugvessel described, and air is forced into said vessel and among said material by anyot'theknown ways through pipe G. Waterbeing placed in the heater and heat applied, hot water and steam are forced around the carbonizing-ch amber and there remain in the water-jacket. The action of the air and heat causes the gas to form in the carbonizing-chamber, and thence it rises into the chamber above and passes off in the manner before described.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The coiled condensingpipe I, used in the gas-chamber of the vessel A, and" provided with a check-valve, when used in combination with the pipe J and the receivingtank K, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The arrangement of the heater G, pro- In testimony that I claim the foregoing I vided with pipes D and E, with the vessels A have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of and B, the branching air-pipe G, and the sup- February, 1867. ply-pipe F, as and for the purpose specified.

3. The arrangement of the receiving-tank K, provided with its guide 0 and discharge-pipe Witnesses:

L, with the pipes J and I, as and for the pur- A. T. PUTNAM, pose specified. W. F. HOWE.

DURELL HALL.

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