US684953A

US684953A - Pumping device for automobiles.

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Publication number: US684953A
Application number: US6848301A
Authority: US
Inventors: William F Singer
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1901-07-16
Filing date: 1901-07-16
Publication date: 1901-10-22
Anticipated expiration: 1918-10-22

Description

No. 634,953. Patenten oct. 22, |9ol.

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PUMPl-NG DEVICE FOR AUTOMUBILES.

(Application led July 16, 1901.)

NITED TATES PATENT .i FFICE.

WILLIAM F. SINGER, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

PUNIPING DEVICE FOR AUTOMOBILES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 684,9 53, dated October 22, 1901.

Application filed .Iuly 16, 1,901. Serial No. 68,483. (No model.)

To OLZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. SINGER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fourth avenue and Twenty-eighth street, New York city, county and State of New York, have'insimple, durable, and automatic device forv this purpose.

Figure I of the accompanying drawings represents so much of an automobile vehicle as is necessary to show my invention. Fig. II shows a modiiication.

1 designates the body of the vehicle, supported by springs l1 on an axle .l2 and frame 13. IVithin the body 1 is contained a gasolene-tank 2, a water-tank 3, and a boiler 4. All these are well known in the art, and I have therefore not deemed it necessary to show them more in detail or to illustrate all their connected parts. Secured to the frame 13 of the vehicle are two horizontally-disposed pumps 5 6,in line with and facing each other. The pump 5 is provided with a properlyvalved air-inlet port 51. An outlet-pipe 52, provided With an antireturn-Iiow valve 53 and with an excess-pressure valve 54, leads to the upper portion of the gasolene-tank 2. The pump 6 has avalved inlet-pipe 61 ,leading'from the water-tank 3, and an outlet-pipe 62, leading to a three-way cock 63, from which branch pipes 64. lead, respectively, to the boiler 4. and to the Water-tank 3. leads from the cock 63 to a point convenient to the hand of the operator. 'Ihe pistons 57 67 of the pumps 5and 6 are pivotally connected, by means of rods 71 72, to a vertical post 7, pivotally attached to the vehicle-body 1, the parts 7 7l 72 forming a toggle-joint, of which 7 3 is the elbow.

In Fig. II of the drawings I have shown an obvious reversal of the parts, the pumps 5 and 6 being secured to the body 1 of the vehicle, while the post 7 is pivoted to the running-gear. This figure also shows the tank 2 as divided, the air-holding portion being separate from the liquid holding portion.

A hand-lever 66 It is obvious that these two constitute functionally one tank. When, therefore, in the claims I speak of a tank for holding liquid fuel and air, I intend to include this form of construction.

The operation of my device will be readily understood from an inspectionot' the drawings. It is clear that any jolting or vertical movement yof the body 1 relative to the running-gear of the vehicle will by means of the toggled connecting-rods 71 72 reciprocate the pump-

pistons

57,67. of the pumps 5 and 6, It will be noted that the pumps 5.and 6 are so spaced apart that the pistons of each are at the end of their respect-ive strokes when the togglejoint is fully extended, so that a movement of the body either up or down from its normal position drives the pump. In practice, therefore, every jolt and recovery of the vehicle-body gives two strokes of the pump. By pivoting the post 7 to its attachment any danger of injury or strain fromY a sidewise lurch of the vehicle to either pump is obviated and the action of the pumps is equalized. The function of the air-pump is to maint-ain a continuous pressure of air in the upper part of the tank 2. The pressure of this air is kept at a desired constant by means of the excess-pressure or pop valv 54. The pump 6 takes water from the supply-tank 3 and normally pumps it through the pipes 62 6.4 to the boiler 4.. IVhen the water in the boiler shows at a proper height, the operator,throu gh the hand-lever 66, turns the three-way cock 63, so as to divert the flow through the branch pipe 6,5 back to the tank 3.

It will be seen that my device saves to the automobilist two disagreeable interruptions of his pleasure or business, besides greatly increasing the usefulness of the vehicle. Where the supply of air to the fuel-tank 2 is kept up by the use of a hand-pump, not only is the labor and annoyance considerable, but the variations in air-pressure cause corresponding variations in the action of the atomizer,with consequent alterations of the iiame. By my automatic pumping device the pressure is kept steadily at anyA desired point, whereby any periodic adjustment of the'tlame is rendered unnecessary. In the same way the pump 6 suffices with the least possible effort on the part of the operator to keep the IOO boiler evenly fed with water, and this with no expense for steam. 'Both of these results are secured without any need of the operator leaving his seat or stopping the vehicle.

What I claim isl. In an automobile vehicle in combination a tank for holding liquid fuel and air, a watertank, a boiler, pumps for forcing air into said air-tank and water into said boiler respectively, a toggle-joint connecting the pistons of said pumps, the elbow of said toggle-joints and the pair of said pumps being connected, the one to the body, the other to the ruiminggear ot said vehicle, whereby the relative vertical motion of said body is utilized to reciprocate said pump-pistons, substantially as described.

2. In an automobile vehicle in combination a tank for holding liquid fuel and air, a Watertank, a boiler, pumps for forcing air into said air-tank and Water into said boiler respectively, a toggle-joint connecting the pistons Vof said pumps the elbow of said toggle-joints and the pair of said pumps being connected, the one to the body, the other to the runninggear of said vehicle, whereby the relative vertical motion of said body in either direction is utilized to reciprocate said pump-pistons, substantially as described.

p 3. In an automobile vehicle in combination a tank for holding` liquid fuel and air, an airpump, means whereby the vertical movement of the body of said vehicle relative toits running-gear is utilized to drive said pump, a pipe leading from said pump to said tank and a pressure-relief valve whereby any excess of air is wasted into the atmosphere, substantially as described.

Li. In an automobile vehicle in combination a water-tank, a boiler, a pump, means Whereby the vertical movement of the body of said vehicle relative to its running-gear is utilized to drive said pump, an inlet-pipe leading from said tank to said pump, an outlet-pipe leading from said pump both to said boiler and to said tank, and means, as a three-way cock in said pipe, for diverting the How of water from said pu mp either to said boiler or to said tank, substantially as described.

5. In an automobile vehicle in combination a water-tank, a boiler, a pump, means Whereby the vertical movement of the body of said vehicle relative to its running-gear is utilized to drive said pump, an inlet-pi pe leading from said tank to said pump, an outlet-pipe leading from said pump both to said boiler and to said tank, means, as a three-way cock in said pipe, for diverting the flow ot' water from said pump either to said boiler or to said tank, and manually-operative means for manipulating said Water-diverting means, substantially as described.

6. In an automobile vehicle in combination a tank for holding liquid fuel and air, a Watertank, a boiler, a pump for forcing air into said air-tank and a pump for forcing Water into said boiler, a toggle-joint connecting the pistons of said pumps, the elbow of said toggle-joint and said pair of pumps being connected, the one to the body, the other to the running-gear of said vehicle, means for automatically wasting the excess of air pumped by said first-named pump and separate means for diverting the iioW of water from said second-named pump either to said boiler or to said water-tank, substantially as described.

7. In an automobile vehicle in combination a tank for holding liquid fuel and air, a Watertank, a boiler, a4 pump for forcing air into said air-tank and a pump for forcing Water into said boiler, a toggle-joint connecting the pistons of said pumps, the elbow of said toggle-joint and said pair of pumps being connected, the one to the body, the other to the running-gear of said vehicle, means for au* tomatically wasting the excess of air pumped by said first-named pump and separate manually-operative means for diverting the ilow of Water from said second-named pump either to said boiler or to said water-tank, substantially as described.

8. In an automobile vehicle in combination a tank for holding liquid fuel and air, a watertank, a boiler, a pump for forcing air into said air-tank, a second pump for forcing water into said boiler, a toggle-joint connecting the pistons of said pumps, the elbow of said toggle-joint and said pair of pumps being connected7 the one to the body, the other to the running-gear of said vehicle, said pumps being in line with and facing each other and so spaced apart that their pistons reach the extreme end oi' their strokes when said togglejoint is fully extended, substantially as described.

VILLIAM F. SINGER.

Witnesses:

GEO. L. COOPER, E. E. SPALDING.

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