US689660A - Gas-producer. - Google Patents

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Patent 060. 24,. 1901;.

W. SWINDELL. GAS PRODUCER.

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WILLIAM SWINDELL, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA. I

GAS-PRODUCER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 689,660, dated December 24, 1901.

Application filed August 9,1901. Serial No. 71,466. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM SWINDELL, of Allegheny, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Gas-Producers, of which improvement the following is a specification.

My presentinvention relates to gas-producers of the general class or type which is set forth in Letters Patent of the UnitedStatesv No. 674,101,'grantedand issued to me under In the accompanying drawings,Figu-re 1 is a 3 vertical longitudinal central section through T a gas-producer, illustrating anapplication of my invention; Fig. 2,;a horizontal section through the same on the line b b of Fig. 3;

Fig. 3, a transverse section on the liner a of;

Fig. 2; Fig. 1, a horizontal section on the line 0 c of Fig. 5, showing a modification of structural detail; and Fig. 5, a transverse section on the line (Z d of Fig. 4.

In the practice of my invention the vertical Walls of the producer are, as heretofore, built of suitable masonry, preferably of substantially rectangular contour, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, and, as in Patent No. 674,104 aforesaid, inc'lose a central chamber, the upper portion of which is in this instance divided into two compartments and which is covered and closed at its top by an arched roof 3 and may be, as in said patent, termed the gasdischarge chamber and also inclose two or more lateral generating-chambers 11. Four generating-chambers,two of which are located on each side of the central gas discharge chamber, are herein shown; but a greater or less number may be employed, in the discretion of the constructor,withou t departure from the spirit of my invention. I

The side walls of the producer are inwardly sloped or inclined from the lower ends of the generating-chambers (which, similarly to the gas-discharge chamber, are open at their bottoms) to the tops of correspondingly-inclined grates 4, which are supported below them-on the producer-walls. Longitudinal blast-pipes 5, towhich currents of steam are supplied by pipes 6, controlled by a valve or valves 7, ex-

tend along the lower sides of the grates 4:.

ed to be water-sealed, transverse plates 9 extending across the ash-pit to a level below that at which water may normally stand therein, as shown in Fig. 1.

A transverse partition-wall 10 is built in the central gas-discharge chamber, said wall extending from the inner wall of the generating-chambers 11 on one side thereof to that of the generating-chambers on the opposite side and from the roof 3 to or near the bottoms of said inner walls, said partitionwall di'viding the upper portion of the gasdischarge chamber into a receiving-compartment2, which communicates witheach of the generating-chambers, and a deliverycompartment 2, from which a dischargerpassage 15 leads to a desired point of gas-delivery.

As shown in Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, each of the generating-chambers 11 communicates directly and independently with the receiving-compartment 2 through a port 11 in the inner wall of the generating-chamber.

In the modification shown in Figs.,4= and 5 two of the generating-chambers communicate directly with the receiving-compartment 2 through ports 11*, as above described, While the other two generating-chambers communicate indirectly with said compartment through the two generating-chambers first specified, ports 11 being provided for this purpose in the partition-walls which separate the adjoining generating-chambers.

The discharge-passage 15, which leads out of the upper portion of the delivery-compartment 2 of the gas-discharge chamber, is controlled by a damper 18 and extends down wardly to a point of connection with a watertrough 16, from the opposite'end of which a delivery-pipe 17 is led to the desired point of delivery of the gas. The water-trough is preferably providedwith suitable appliances for the separation of tar, soot, and other prodnets which pass with the gas from the delivery-compartment, said appliances not, however, constituting part of my present invention and not being, therefore, herein at length set forth.

In the operation of the producer fuel is charged into and maintained in combustion in the generating-chambers 11, the solid residuum passing down and being supported on the grates 4. The gas generated by the combustion of the fuel in each of the generatingchambers passes therefrom into the upper portion of the receiving-compartment 2 of the gasdischarge chamber, either directly through a port 11 or intermediately through a port 11, into an adjoining generating-chamber, and thence through the port 11 of the latter chamber into the receiving-compartment. From the receiving-compartment 2 the gas passes downwardly under the bottom of the partition-wall into the delivery-compartment 2, and thence through the discharge-passage 15 and water-trough 16 to the delivery-pipe 17. The several generating-chambers 11 are successively charged with fuel at such intervals that there may be a comparatively bright fire in one or more of them at the time when another is charged. The gas which is first evolved from the fresh charge meets and mingles in the receiving-chamber 2 with the purer and hotter gas from the generating-chambers in which the charges of fuel have been more highly heated and more completely converted into gas, and the smoke, soot,and other foreign matters of the gas of the fresh charge are consumed in such admixture.

' wall 10 prevents the gas of the fresh charge The partition-- full utilization of the gaseous elements of each of said charges.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a gas-producer, the combination of a gas-discharge chamber, generating-chambers located on opposite sides thereof and having separate fuel-supply openings, a fuel-support below and open to each of said chambers, ports establishing continuous communication between the generating-chambers and gasdischarge chamber, a discharge-passage leading out of the gas-discharge chamber, and a partition-wall extending across the upper portion of the generating-chambers and the gasdiseharge chamber.

2. In a gas-producer, the combination of a gas-discharge chamber, a plurality of generat ing-chambers located on opposite sides thereof and having separate fuel-supply openings, ports establishing continuous communication between one of the generating-chambers on each side of the gas-discharge chamber and said chamber, ports establishing continuous communication between the several generating-chambers on each side of the gas discharge chamber, and a discharge-passage leading out of the gas-discharge chamber.

3. In a gas-producer, the combination of a gas-discharge chamber, divided transversely into receiving and delivery compartments, generating-chambers located on opposite sides thereof and having separate fuel-supply open= ings, a fuel-support below and open to the generating-chambers and the compartments of the gas-discharge chamber, ports establishing continuous communication between the generating-chambers and the receiving=compartment of the gas-discharge chamber, and a gasdischarge passage leading outof the deliverycompartment of said chamber. v

WILLIAM SWINDELL Witnesses i J. SNOWDEN BELL, CLARENCE A. WILLIAMS.

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