US843692A

US843692A - Device for generating gas from crude oil.

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Publication number: US843692A
Application number: US32434406A
Authority: US
Inventors: Michael G Norton
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1906-07-02
Filing date: 1906-07-02
Publication date: 1907-02-12
Anticipated expiration: 1924-02-12

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No. 843,692. PATENTED FEB. 1-2, 1907.

' M. G. NORTON.

DEVICE FOR GENERATING GAS PROM CRUDE OIL. APPLIOATION rum) JULYB, 1906.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY 2, 1908.

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'MIOHAEL G. NORTON, OF GIBSONBURG, OHIO. DEVlCE FOR GENERATING GAS FROM CRUDE Oil...

Application filed July 2,1906. Serial No. 324.344.

tainnew and useful Improvements in De vices for Generating Gas from Crude Oil, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a device for producing a eombustible'gas or vapor from crude oil and which is especially adapted for use in conjunction with. hydrocarbon-engines to supply the explosive charges thereto.

The object of the invention is to provide a very simple and el'licient device for the pur pose; and to this end it consists in providing a suitable carburetor in which the oil is thoroughly divided and mixed with air, drawing off the heavy part of the oil and causing the volatilized portion and air to pass through a separator where the heavy portions of the gaseous vapor are extracted and returned to the carburetor.

The invention. further consists in the arrangement and combination of parts and in certain other new and useful features, all as which bodying the invention and showing the same operatively connected to an explosive-engme.

lar view of the separator. Fig. 4 is an encontrolling-valve.

As shown in the drawings, 1 represents the the llv- 1 cylinder, .l-the crank-slurlt, and 3 wheel, of any ordinary liydroearbon-engine. and 4 is a suitable tank for supplying crude petroleum-oil through a supply-pipe .3 to an oil-pump 6, the piston of which is actuated by a crank on the crank-shaft of the enginev connected by a connecting-rod 7 to the pisten-rod of said pump. From the oil-pump a pipe 8 leads into a dome 9, secured to a head 10 on theupper end of the cylindrical casing .11 of the'carbureter 12, and screwed into aseat in the head and hanging down within the casing, with its upper end opening into the dome and its lower open end at a distance Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 12, 1907.

tube 13 of considerably less diameter than the diameter of the casing. \Vithin this tube is secured a series of disks 1 1, made of wiregauze or other suitable material, which fit closely in the tube and through which the oil entering the dome of the carburetor must pass on its downward course. A suitable wire or rod 15 extends downward in the axis of the tube,through the disks and is attached at its lower end to a suitable cup-shaped cap 16, which forms a valve to close the lower end of the tube, and the upper end of said rod is attached to an operating-lever 17, pivoted in an opening in a pipe 18, extending upward from the upper end ofthe dome to conduet air thereto, said lever serving to raise and lower the valve 16. Openings 19, closed by flaps-20, are provided in opposite sides of the dome to admit air thereto, if desired, and through which the operator may reach and view the interior.

From the lower end of the carlnu'eter-cas ing apipe 21 leads to any suitable tank or I reservoir 22, into which the heavy part of the ;o1l not vaporized n passing through the screens ilows by gravity, andleadmg from the side of the head of the carburetor is a 1 large pipe 23lor-conducting the mixed air hereinafter more lully described, relerence j and volatrhzed oil into the upper end of the being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in

separator 24, which consists of a vertical cylindrical casing 25', closed at each end and liigure 1 1S aside elevation oi a device cm- 3 provided with series of internal coneshaped division walls or diaphragms 26, extending across the casing and secured therein Fig. .3 is an enlarged longitudinal ver- 'tical section of the carburetor: big. 3, a simiby forming each with a circuinferential groove 27, boring a hole 11]. the casing, and

l pouring Babbitt metal through the hole into larged sectional detail ot a portion of the Same, and Fig. 5 alongitudinal section of theformed with a multiplicity of vertical holes within which are secured tubes 25', with their ends extending some distance above and below the (liapluagms and their upper ends lapping by the lower ends of the tubes in the diaphragm above.

. face of each diaphragm at its edge to draw oii any unvaporized Oll winch may be carried 'over into the separator, and leading from the bottom of the casing is a pipe 31 for conducting the gas into a chamber 32 in direct communication with the engine-cylinder. This from the lower'closed end-of the casing, is a chamber 32 has an air-inlet opening 33 closed by a valve 34, which is automatically opened suction. in the separator and carburetor and and closed in the usual manner by any suitable governor mechanism 35, so that as the speed of the engine increases the valve will be opened to admit air to the chamber, and thus regulate the strength of the explosive charges and the speed of the engine. A pipe 36 leads into the bottom of the oil-chamber 29 and is connected at its opposite end to a pump 37, operated by a crank on the cranloshaft of the engine, and the delivery-pipe 38, leading from said pump, is connected to the deliverypipe Set the oil-punip leading into the top of the carburetor, so that all oil carried over by the gas into the separator is separated out and pumped back into the carburetor;

The delivery-stroke of the oil-pump is set slightly in advance of that of the separator-- pump, and as said separator-pump is of several times the capacity of the oil-pump each charge of oil is injected with considerable force into the dome of the carbureter by the volume of mixed oil and gas forced through the delivery-pipe of the separator-pump, and thus the charges are broken up and dissipated throughout the interior of the dome, Where they are thoroughly mixed with air drawn in through the air-inlet pipe 18 by the suction-stroke of the engine and pass down through the screens, which further break up the charges and take out the globules of heavy oil. In passing through the separator the heavier parts of the gas and the oil contained therein settle down upon the diaphragins and are drawn off through the open ings 30 b, the separator-pump, the pure gas passing up into the upper 'ends of the tubes, downward through the same, and out at the bottom of the casing to the engine, and thus all but the pure highly-explosive mixture is returned to the carburetor and does not find its way into the engine-cylinder.

A very strong, clean, and highly-explosive mixture is thus obtained from crude oil without the necessity of supt'u'heating the same, it being necessary to heat the oil only when the temperature is low and for that purposc the pipe 8 is formed in a coil and incloscd within a closed cylinder 39, connected to the exhaust of the engine by a valve-controlled pipe 40, provided with a. suitable valve-controlled by-pass pipe 41, adapted to exhaust into the atmosphere direct when it is not desired to heat the coil.

By means of the capor valve 16 the opening into the lower end of the inner tube 13, through which the oil and air ,are drawn by the suction-stroke of the engine, may be restricted at will, and thus the suction and consequent'agitating efi'ect increased or diminished to change the quantity and quality of .the charges, and the speed or the engine is automatically controlled by the opening of thegovernorwalve 34, which admits air dialso diluting the ingoing charges.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim is 1. The combination with a carburetor adapted to receive crude oil and. vaporize the volatile part thereof, of means for drawing the heavy part of the oil from the carbureter,

a. separator connected to the carb. reter for separating the heavy from the lighter part of the mixture received from the carburetor, and means for retr rning the heavy part of the nnxtrre'to the CHJbLIGtGl.

2 The combination with a carburete adapted to receive crude oil and vaporize the volatile part thereof, of an oil-pomp, a de'livery-pipe leading from said pump into the carburetor, a separator connected to thecarlnzreter to separate the heavier from the lighter parts ofthe niixttre received from the carburetor, a pump connected to the separator to draw the heavy parts of the mixture therefrom and connected to the delivcry-pipe of the oil-pn1np to force the said parts into said delivery-pipe, said pump being operated so that the oil-p1unp will discharge in advance of the separator-pinnp.

3. The con'ibination with a carbtreter, of a separator consisting of a casing connected to the carlwrctcr, a diaphragm extending across the casing, a plzrality of open-ended tubes extending thro: gh the (llzt])lil2lf {li1, and mcans for drawing the oil from the upper surface of the diaphragm.

4. The combination with a carln'rctcnof a separator consisting of a casing connected to the carburetor to rcccive mixed air and therefrom, a diapln'agm'in the casing, a plurality of vertical tubes cxtcnding through the diaphragm, and a chamber at one side of the casing connected withv the interior of the casing adjacent to the upper surface of said diaphragm to receive the heavy parts of the mixture.

5. The combination with a: carburetor, of a casing, a pipe connecting tho nppci end of the casing with the nppcr end of tlncarburetcr, diaphragms dividing the intcrior of the casing, a plurality of opcn-cnd ttbcs cxtending throu h each diaphragm, a chamber at one side of the asing co'mmnnicating through openings in the casing ith the inte- -rior of the casing at the tppcr sidcs of the diaphrai-gins, and a pipe connecting the said chainht-r and arl :.-rctcr.

(5. The combination with a carbnrcter, of'

the casing with the nppcl' end of the carbiireter. and an outlct-pipc at the bottom of the casing. a scrics of diaphragms extending across the casing, a pl rality of open-coded tubes extending throrgh each of said. diaplnagms with the upper ends of the tubes lapping by the lower ends of the tubes of the rectly into the chamber 32, thus lessening the diapln'a m above, a chamber at one side of the casing communicating with the interior thereof through holes at the upper sides or" the diaphragms, and a pump connected to said chamber-to draw the contents therefrom and deliver the same to the carbureter.

7. The combination of a casing closed at each end, an oil-supply pipe opening into the upper end of said casing, a tube of lesser diameter than the diameter of the casing sus pended therein with its upper end open to receive the oil and its lower open end at a distance from the closed lower end of the casing, a series of screens in said tube, means for re stricting the opening into the lower end of said tube, and a discharge-pipe for the gas leading from the upper end of the casing.

8. The combination of a casing having a dome at its upper end and closed at its lower end, an air-inlet pipe opening into the dome, an oil-supply pipe opening into the dome, a tube extending downward in the casing and its upper end open into the dome and its lower open end at a distance from the lower closed end of the casing, 'a series of discous screens in said tube, a valve to close the lower end of the tube, a rod extending upward in the axis of the tube and attached at its lower end to said valve, and an operatinglever attached to the upper end of said rod.

9 The combination of a casing having a closed lower end, a head on the u per end of the casing provided with an out et for gas, an open-ended tube secured at its upper end within the head and extending downward within the casing to near the closed lower end thereof, a dome secured to the head over the open end of the tube and provided with openings in its sides closed by flaps, an air- 10. The combination of a carburetor consisting of a vertical cylindrical casing, an open-ended tube in said casing, a dome over the upper open end of said tubehaving an air-inlet, a series of screens in said tube, a valve to close the lower end of said tube; a

separator consisting of a tubular casing closed at each end, a series of cone-shaped diap'hragms in said casing, a plurality of tubes extending vertically through each of said diaphragms, a chamber at one side of the casing communicating with the interior thereof through openings at the'upper side of each diaphragm; an oil-sup ly tank; an oil-pump; a pipe connecting t e tank and pump; a supply-pipe connecting the pump and dome of the carbureter; a separatorpump; a pipe connecting the separatorpump and the chamber of the separator; a pipe connecting the separator-pump and the oil-supply pipe; and means for'operating said pumps.

In testimony'whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' MICHAEL Gr. NORTQN.

'Witnesses:

John P. BARTLEY, D. D. GRANT.