US825687A - Steam and gas generator. - Google Patents

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No. 825,687. PATENTED. JULY 10, 1906. E. Al WEIGEL & I. WOLF.

STEAM AND GAS GENERATOR.

APPLICATION FILED OCT.5, 1905.

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No. 825,687. PATBNTED JULY 10, 1906. F. A. WEIGEL & I. WOLF. STEAM AND GAS GENERATOR.

APPLICATION FILED OCT.5, 1905.v

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

F RIEDRICK ALBIN VVEIGEL AND ISAAC VOLF, OF JOHNETTA, PENN- SYLVANIA.

STEAM AND GAS GENERATOR.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented July 10, 1906.

Application filed October 5, 1905. Serial No. 281.524.

T all' whom it may con/cern,.-

Be it known that we, FRIEDRICK ALBIN WEIGEL and IsAAc WOLF, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Johnetta, in the county of Armstrong and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam and Gas Generators, o which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings'.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in steam and gas generators; and the invention has for its primary object the provision olnovel electrically-actuated means for generating steam and gas for operating engines.

To this end we employ cylinders into which are admitted water, and in each cylinder are mounted two carbon rods which constitute the positive and negative terminals of an electric circuit. The carbons are connected to a suitable source of electrical energy, and as the water enters these cylinders it is acted on by the electricity passing between the carbons and is raised in temperature, whereby steam is generated and a part of the water is decomposed, the resulting product being a mixture of steam, oxygen, and hydrogen, which is conveyed to a suitable receivingtank or direct tothe cylinder of an engine.

The construction entering into our improved steam and gas generator will be presently described. in detail, and reference .will now be had to the drawings accompanying this application, wherein like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which- Figure .1 is aplan of an engine equipped with our improved steam and gas generator. Fi 1. 2 is an end view of the Same. Fig. 3 is a si e elevation ofthe engine. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view ofthe cylinder used in connection with the same. Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view of two cylinders combined for generating steam and gas. Fig. 6 is a horizontal sectional view of the same.

To put our invention into practice, We emloy a cylinder 1 having flanged 'ends 2 2. pon the langed ends are mounted disks or plates of slate 3 3 and heads 4 4, the plates and heads vbeing retained upon the flanged ends of the cylinder by nuts and bolts 5 5, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawings. The heads 4 and the plates 3 3 are'provided withcentral apertures 6 6, said apertures being in vertical alinement with` each other. In cach aperture is placed asleeve 7, of some insulating material, as hardened rubber. EX- tending through said sleeves are sticks or poles of carbon 8 and 9, the stick of carbon 9 being fixed in the lowermost head, While vthe stick 8 is loosely mounted in the upper head in order that the same may be reciprocated within the cylinder 1. The upper end of the stick of carbon 8 is mounted in a couplingblock 10, which is attached to a link 11, carried by the outer end of a rock-arm 12. The rock-arm 12 is fulcrumed, as at 14, in a standard 15,'mounted upon the bed-plate 16 of a conventional form of engine 17. TheV opposite end of the rock-arm 12 engages the periphery of a wheel 18, which is mounted upon the driven shaft 19 of the engine 17.

The periphery of the wheel 18 is provided with a plurality of lugs or cam-surfaces 2OJ4 which are adaptedto engage the end 21 of the rock-arm 22 and impart a vibratory or vertically-reci rocating movement to the o posite end of tlie arm, whereby the end of-t e stick of carbon 8 will move into close proximit'y to the end. of the stick of carbon 9 and then recede a predetermined distance, this being governed by the length of the arm 12 1 and the lugs or cam-surface 20, carried by the wheel 18. To always return the rockarm" to its normal with the periphery o the wheel 18, we mount a coiled sprin 23 upon the head of-the cylinder 1, this coi ed spring surrounding the link 1 1 and the up er end of the carbon stick and normally hol ing the lcarbon stick in an ele-l vated position,

Itis a well-.known fact that by electrolysiswater and otherliquids can be divided into their component gases, and in connection with the cylinders and sticks of carbon just described we intend to use water and acurrent of electricity for decomposing the Water and generating steam and gases which w1l1 serve functionally as steam. To accom-I plish this,we connect wires 24 and 25 tothe sticks'of carbon -8 and 9, these wiresrepresenting the negative and positive poles of e dynamo or generator. The cylinder 1 is provided with a water-inlet pipe 26 and with a gas-outlet pipe 27, which leads to the chest 28, carried by the cylinder 29 of the engine 17. d By permitting an electric current of osition in engagement IOO `suliicient'ann-)era e and voltage topass intovv the carbons 8 an 9 a s arkwill jump from one pole' to the other 'w env the earbons are separated, and when the carbon 8 is reciprothe cylinder 1 the Water Will be, ec

cated rapidly through'the 'medium ofthe rook-arm 12 and the WheeliS a plurality of 'A of hydrogen andone volume of oxygen, and

itlis these generated gases that we employv in' connection with such steam as is sim-ul- 'taneouslygenerated for driving the engine I7. fT-hesegases and the steam pass off fromv the cylinder 1 through the pipe '2'7 to the cylinde'r 29,1'and' the-expansive iioree` and pressure of the gasesandsteamserve to drive the engivneata high speed.

` -e lare aware' that; order" toI rapidly decompose a large amount of Waters. `current of high ampera'ge 'and voltage is necessary, and

we may em 'loy a dynamo or generator or=any other suita le source of electric energy to `accomplish the desired result.Y f-

In Figs. -5 a-nd- 6 of the drawings we have illustratedl two cylinders constructed similar to: the `cyl'iailder 1, With A"the exception that v they are connected bylpipesy 3G 30-to ai common Water-'supply 31 valves 32'32 being employed tofcontrolfthe admission of4 Water: to each cylii-ider.'A Instead of reciprocating the carbons of said cylinders I provi-dei the upper sans of' carbon y with metamo- Couarssa 33,

each collar being provided with a rack 34, which is-ad'a'ptedto engage a; pinion 35,v journaled pinions ei v'rotated by cranks 3636'. 'In this modie -orm 'of construction the upper carbonsfare-setat all times-to cause' a jumpujon the head ofv eaehcylinder, said'v spark, and the space' through which said spark jumps can be regulatedby the raising andlowering of said carbon throu .h the me-` dium of the pinion and the rac 34. The

cylinders are also constructed to support by -brackets 37 37 asteam reservoir or chamber 38, into which the steam and gases gener 39. The steam and gases collecte 1n the ated inthe cylinders may pass Iby (pipes -39 reservoir are adapted tobe used as the occa.

sion demands.

It is thought from the foregoing that the construction, operation, and advantages of .the herein-described steam and gas generator Will beap'parent Without further description,

` and various changes in the form, proportion,

'and minor details of construction may be resorted to Without departing from the spirit of 1 the inventionor saeriiicing any of the ad- Y vantages` thereof. v

What We claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

In a generator, the combination with anengine, of a cylinder mounted adjacentto4 said engine and connected by a pipe with the steam-chestt'hereof, said cylinder being connected to a suitable water-supply, said cylinder. having carbon sticks mounted therein and connected with a suitable source of elec- .trieal energy, one of said carbo-ns vbeing .loosely mounted in said cylinder, means acltuated by said engine toreciprocate one of @said carbons to cause a'jump-spark'in conl"'nection with the electric current, substanvitiallyl-fa-xs described.

"In testimony-whereof We affix our 'siggnsa-` 1 tures in the presence ofy two Witnesses.

rmmuox ALBIN WEIGEL.

AWit nesses S. M.-BREWER,

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