US684073A

US684073A - Hydrocarbon-burner.

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Publication number: US684073A
Application number: US3770900A
Authority: US
Inventors: Abbot Augustus Low
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1900-11-26
Filing date: 1900-11-26
Publication date: 1901-10-08
Anticipated expiration: 1918-10-08

Description

No. 684,073. Patented Oct. 8, l90l. A. A. LOW.

HYDRUCARBUN BURNER. (Application filed Nov. 26, 1900. (No Model.)

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Patented Oct. 8, l90l. A. A. LOW.

HYDRDGARBON BURNER.

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ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

HYDROCARBON-BURNER.

$PEGIFICAT1ON forming part of Letters Patent No. 684,073, dated October 8, 1901.

Application filed November 26, 1900. Serial No. 37,709. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, Annor Ancusrns Low, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York,borough t Brooklymcounty of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in IIydrocarbon-Heaters, of which the following is a specification sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which the invention appertains to make and use the same.

My improvements relate to what are known as hydrocarbon heaters or torches, used for effecting a preliminary heating of the ignition-chamber of gas-motors and for similar purposes where heat is to be applied temporarilyand superficially.

My invention consists in the special construction and arrangement of parts herein described and claimed specifically.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is an elevation of a hydrocarbon-heater of a form ordinarily used for the purpose designated with my improved attachment applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a section upon plane of line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isa central longitudinal section. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section, partly in elevation, on plane of line 4 4, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a section upon plane of line 5 5, Fig. 1.

A is the cylindrical shell in which the ordinary vaporizing-tube B is situated, said tube being fed through the supply-tube b, in which is interposed the usual needle-valve V, through which the vaporized hydrocarbon escapes under pressure sufficient to drive the flame through the nozzle N in the end of the cylinder A.

O is a receptacle for holding an asbestos Wick or equivalent and for containing the alcohol to be used in the preliminary heating of the vaporizing-tube B. Attached to or combined with this lamp-chamber G is a pipe P for supplying compressed air to the alcohol flame arising from the chamber 0. This air-pressure pipe 1? is provided with perforations or nozzles 19, inclined in such relation to the chamber 0 and to the vaporizing-tube B as to cause the flame from the chamber 0 to impinge forcibly against the tube B, the compressed air at the same time intensifying the heat of the flame; The compressed air supplied to the pipe P or its equivalent maybe derived from any convenient source, as from a tank '1, indicated symbolically in the drawings and connected with the pipe P by means of flexible tubing F. v In this connection it is obvious that a compression-p11 mp or other source of supply may be substituted for the tank T with like result.

In the use of gas-motors having ignitionchambers which require to be heated externally before the motor can be made to run continuously the element of time is of special importance under all conditions of use, and for this reason by rendering the hydrocarbon heater or torch instantly available I effect a material and substantial advantage, While adding to the safety and convenience of the users of gas-motors of this class.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the cylindrical shell A, formed with the contractingnozzle N, the supply-pipe b, the vaporizing-tube B, the nee die-valve V, controlling the delivery of hydrocarbon from the supply-pipe b, to the vaporizing-tube B, the lamp-wick chamber 0, secured to the lower rear edge of the shell A, and the air-pressure pipe P, formed with the series of perforations p, inclined toward the vaporizing-tube B, and arranged to direct the flamefrom chamber 0, against the vaporizingtube, the whole arranged and operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

ABBO'I AUGUSTUS LOW.

\Vitnesses:

D. W. GARDNER, GEO. WM. MIATT.