US74648A

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Publication number: US74648A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1868-02-18
Anticipated expiration: 1885-02-18

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A. J. WHITE, OF BALLSTON SPA, NEW YORK.,-

Lam Patent No. 74,648, daad Fea-ary 1e, lees.

IMPROVEMENT IN OIL-BURNING APPARATUS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONOERN Be it known that I, A. J. WHITE, of Ballston Spa, county o-tSaratoga, State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Lamps or Oil-Burning Apparatus; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form a part of thisspecication, is a description of my invention suilicient to enable thoseskilled in the art to practise it.

The invention relates to the illumination of buildings with hydrocarbon liquids or oils.

The mode of illuminating a building with this invention is as follows: 'In the lower room ot' the building,' or, what is better, in an out-house, situated as low as'the 'lowest room to be lighted, I' place a reservoir,with force-pump. To this force-pump are attached iron pipes, which are conducted up to the top of the building to be lighted, and then through the upper room, then down' and through the next room below, and then to the next, and so on, in one continuous line of pipe,`through all the rooms to be lighted, and back to the reservoir. EPerpendicular orV pendent pipes are attached to this continuous line of pipe at such points as lights are desired. To eachof these pendent pipes is attached a. wick-tube or burner, connected with a stop-cock and small reservoir, as shown in the drawing. Y u,

a denotes the wicktube or burner', with a pipe entering it a short distance from its top, as shown by b. This pipe Z1 is bent nearly at right angles about four inches from the burner, and to the other end is attached a stop-cock, e. This stop-cock isconstrueted as follows: Its cylinder has two openings, top and bottom,.the lower one `for the attachment of the pipe 6, and the upper one for the attachment of one ot' the pendent pipes before mentioned. The stem or plug of this cockis hollow, with an opening in one side and an opening in one end. The opening in the side of the stem is so Varranged as to correspond with the openings n the cylinder of the cock. To the opening in the end of the stem is attacheda small reservoir, c, which is made to serve as a handle ot' the cock. When the pendent pipes are iilled with oil, as hereinafter shown, this burnen, cock, and reservoir will be used as follows: The handleor reservoir c will be turneddown-as ,shown in the drawing by the full lines d. The opening in the side of the stem oi' the cock will now be opposite the openingr in' cylinder of the cock, on its upper side, which will allow the oil in the pendent pipe'to iiow'through the hollow stem in'to the reservoir c, the air contained-in the reservoir passing up into the pendent pipe, taking the place of the oil. The handle ofthe cock or re'servoir c is now turned up, as shown in the'drawing by the dotted lines. The openingin the stem of the cockis now opposite to the lower opening oi' the, cylinder of the cock, which. will allow. the oil to ilow down from the reservoir c through the pipe b, into the ,burner a, air passing up and taking its place until the opening in the side'ot` the Vwich-tnbe is closed by the presence ot' oil, when it will remain stationary. When the lamp is lighted the oil is consumed till it uncoversthe opening in the wick-burner, when air will again pass up into the reservoir e, and oil iiow down again into the wick-tube, this process being repeated until all the oil in the reservoir c is consumed, when the reservoir is turned down again and refilled as before.

When burners are attached to all of the.pendent pipes they are iilledwith oil in the following manner-z The large reservoir is illerl with oil; then, by working the pump, the oil will be forced up through the continuous pipe, and the air contained in the pipe will be forced before the oil until it escapes through the cnd of the return-pipe, and when thepipe is filled with oil, air will cease to escape throngh the end of the return-pipe, and oil will flow in its stead into the reservoir. While the oil is passing through this continuous pipe the pendent pipes and the small reservoirs attached to them will be lilled. The small reservoirs will be turned down while the pipes are being lled. After the pendent pipes are filled, a cock attached to the pump for 'thatV purpose is opened, and all the remaining oil in the continuous pipe is allowed to iiow back into the reservoir. This process is repeated daily when the lamps v'are in use. It is intended that the small reserv0irs,ic, shall hold suiiicient oil to last oneV evening.

The essence of this invention consists in the construction of a wick-burner, pipe, and movable reservoir, combined with a hollow-stem cock', so'as to supply the wick-tube with oil as fast as it shall be consumed, with- Ollt .any danger flOm 0VtllOWage,l and applying these wich-tubes to lines of pipe, from which the movable reservoirs aro to bc supplied with oil.

I claim the combination of a wick-tube, a; and pipeZz, with a movable reservoir, e, attached to a hollow-` stem cock, the whole arranged so as to operate substantially as set forth.

A.' J. WHITE. Witnesses:

EDM. F. BnowN, WM. HUnLEY.