US850992A

US850992A - Explosive power-generator.

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Publication number: US850992A
Application number: US26847505A
Authority: US
Inventors: Hutchinson Bevier; Jules J Durage
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1905-07-06
Filing date: 1905-07-06
Publication date: 1907-04-23
Anticipated expiration: 1924-04-23

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No. 850,992. PATENTED APR. 23, 1907.

H. BEVIER & J. J. DURAGB. EXPLOSIVE POWER GENERATOR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6. 1906.

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HUTCHIN SON BEVIER AND JULES J. DURAGE, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA.

EXPLOSIVE POWER-GENERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 23, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HUTOHINSON BEVIER and J ULES J. DURAGE, citizens of the United States, residing at Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Explosive Power-Generators; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact des'cri tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to ex losive powergenerators, and has for its o ject the provision, in combinationwith a floating vessel or support, of an improved generator for generating a propelling-gas and for applying it directly for motive purposes against the water through which the vessel is propelled.

It consists, in combination with a vessel or floating support, of a gas-generating and combustion chamber, means for charging said chamber with hydrocarbon and air, means for igniting said hydrocarbon in the presence or in mixture with said air, and tubes leading from said generating-chamber to the water in which said vessel is floated.

It also consists of certain other constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts, as are hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of said invention on the line a b of Fig. 2, omitting the containing vessel or support. Fig. 2 is a reduced transverse section 0 a vessel, showing a rear elevation, partly in vertical transverse section, of said invention. Fig. 3 is a reduced detail transverse section of our said invention between the lines 0 d and 00 y of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a reduced dia rammatic view of a portion of said vesse? and of said invention, showing the arrangement of the propelling and backing tubes of said invention. Fig. 5 is a reduced vertical longitudinal section of a portion of said. vessel on the line 8 t of Fig. 2, showing a side elevation of saidinvention, partly in vertical lon itudinal section. Fig. 6 is a reduced vertica transverse section of a portion of said invention on the line 9 h of ig. 1. Fig. 7 is a reduced horizontal section of said invention on the line 'm n of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, 1, 1,-and 1 are parts of a gas-generating chamber. Throu h said part 1 extends a flue 2, and positione in said part 1 above said flue is a grate 3. Said chamber is provided with a ort 1 for admitting hydrocarbon into sai chamber and with a ort 1$ for admittin air to said chamber. xtending from sai chamber are two tubes, as 4 and 5, communicating with said chamber through ports 4 and 5*, formed in the walls thereof. Said ports 4 and 5 are governed by any suitable valve construction or constructions adapted to open the port 4 and close the port 5, or vice versa, as preferably by a valve 6, pivotally mounted in said chamber and provided with an outwardlyextending valve-stem 6 and operating-lever 6 which valve is adapted in one position to close the mouth of the port 4 and in another position to open the ort 4 and close the port 5". Said tube 4 is designed to lead forwardly to and through the bow or the side-of thevessel 7 below the Water-line thereof, and said tube 5 is designed to lead rearwardly to and through the stern of the vessel below the water line thereof. Said chamber is also preferably provided with a port 8, normally closed by a safety-valve 8, held down on its seat by a spring 8 adapted to be raised by any excess power-pressure in said chamber. Said chamber is also preferably provided with one or more natural-draft airports 9, governed by normally open valves 9 adapted to be closed by any explosive pressure within said chamber. Carried by said vessel is a hydrocarbon-reservoir 10, connected by a tube 11 with the port 1. Said tube 11 is provided with any suitable current-governing valves, as 12, adapted to permit or to out off the flow of hydrocarbon through said tube. by any suitable check-valve 1 adapted to be closed by explosive pressure from within said chamber. A lamp or torch 14 is positioned within-a suitable hood or housin 15, with which said flue 2 communicates. he oppo site end of said flue preferably communicates with a chimney-flue 2"", extending outwardly of said chamber. Said port 1 by means of a tube 16 and said housing 15 by means of a tube 1 5 communicate with a fan-chamber 1 7,

preferably at the periphery of said fan-cham- Said port 1 is governed ber. Said fan-chamber has journaled therein a fan or blower 18 of any suitable construction, adapted to be run by any suitable motive meansas, for example, a clockwork mechanism comprising the spring 19, the shaft 20, the ti ht ratchet-wheel 21, mounted on said shaft, t 1e loose gear-wheel 22, mounted 011 said shaft, the pawl 23, pivoted to said gear :22 and engaging the teeth of said ratchet 21, the gear 24, meshing with said gear 22 and. rigidly fixed on the blower or fan shaft 25. '.Said fan-chamberis providedwith an inlet port or ports 26, ada ted to admit air to said chamber: Said va vs 12 is provided with a valve-operatingrocker-arm 1 2, adapted to be operated in any suitable manner by said motor, as by a reciprocating arm 27, ivotally connected at one end to said roc erarm and at its opposite end connected to an eccentric 28, mounted upon a shaft 29, journaled in suitable supports 30. Said shaft 29 is provided at its opposite end with a sliding rotatable gear 31, adapted in operating position to engage a gear 32, mounted upon the shaft 20. The outer end of said shaft 20 is formed into a winding-stem adapted to en gage the winding-key 33, which ke is preferably provided with a beveled shou der or collar 33, adapted during the winding operation to disengage said gear 31 from said gear 32. The gear 31 is normally held in operative position by a spring of any suitable construction, as 34. Below said port 1 which, it may be observed, is below the port 1, there is formed on the inside wall of said chamber 1 a lip 1, adapted to catch the drip from the port 1 and retain it in such relation to the port 1 that the incoming air through the port 1 will scatter and va orize it and mix with it. Said lamp or tore is also connected with said tank by means of a tube 35, and suitable manually-operated cut-ofl valves, as 36, are mounted in the tubes 11 16, 15, and 35 to permit of the supply of hydrocarbon or blown air being arbitrarily regulated or cut oil from said chamber 1 or from said torch, or both. Said generators, tanks, and powerapplying tubes and governing-valves may be single or double or otherwise, as desired, and in the drawings certain portions are shown in duplicate, certain other portions, as the motor, being single or adapted to use in commen by two generators.

In operation the torch is lighted and the flue 2 heated to gas-igniting heat. The motor is then statred, tnus admitting to the chamber 1 a charge of hydrocarbon and simultaneously a forced draft of air in proper proportions to make an explosive mixture, which is thereupon ignited 'or exploded by the heated flue 2. The expanding gas seeking to escape through the tube 4* or 5 as the case may be, pushes directly against the water, thus backing the vessel or propelling it ahead, as the case may be. After the chamber 1 is thoroughly heated and the grate 3 is thoroughly heated by explosions of gas it is believed that said torch maybe extinguished without stopping the engine. The volume of air blown into said chamber and the amount of hydrocarbon admitted thereto may be readily regulated by means of the said manually-o erated valves 36. It will be observed that tlie generators contain no power-pistons and that they are alwa sin direct communication through one or t e other of the tubes 4 or 5 with the water surrounding the vessel. We do not desire, however, to be restricted to the especial form of motor, as said clock mechanism, shown or described or to the particular forms of valves, it being evident that various minor or convenient modifications may be made in said constructlons without departing from the spirit or scope of our invention.

Having now described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an explosive power-generator, the

combination with a vessel or floating support, of a gas-generating and combustion chamber adapted to communicate at all times directly with the water surrounding said vessel, means including a clockwork mechanism, and blower, adapted to introduce a charge of air into said generatingchamber, means for separately introducing a charge of hydrocarbon into said chamber, and means adapted to ignite said charges in mingled condition in said chamber.

2., The combination of a combustion-chamber provided with an admission-port adapted to admit hydrocarbon to said chamber, and with an admission-port adapted to admit air to said chamber, and with a lip formed upon the inner face of said chamber below both of said ports and adapted to catch the drip of the first said'port and expose it to the draft of incoming air through the second said port, means adapted to force air into said chamber through the second said ort, communicating means open at all times between said chamber and a surrounding li uid, means adapted to introduce hydrocar on to said chamber, and means'adapted to explode the lmixture of air and hydrocarbon in said cham- 3. The combination of a combustion-chamber having a constant communication with free water, means adapted to introduce" air under pressure into said chamber, means for introducing air under natural atmospheric pressure into said chamber, a lip formed on the wall of said chamber to catch the hydrocarbon charge and expose it to the forcedl In testimony whereof we hereunto aflix draft of air, means adapted to introduce hyour signatures 1n resence of two witnesses.

drocarbon into said chamber, a flue extend- H TCHINSON BEVIER. ing through said chamber, means adapted to JULES J. DURAGE.

5 heat said flue to gas-igniting heat, and means Witnesses:

for regulating the volume of forced air and JAMES T. WATSON,

hydrocarbon introduced into said chamber. W. H. SMALLWOOD.