US869582A

US869582A - Gas-making apparatus.

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Publication number: US869582A
Application number: US39115007A
Authority: US
Inventors: Leon P Lowe
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1907-09-03
Filing date: 1907-09-03
Publication date: 1907-10-29
Anticipated expiration: 1924-10-29

Description

o. 869,582. PATENTED OCT. 29. 1907. L. P. LOWE.

GAS MAKING APPARATUS.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 27. 1906. RENEWED SEPT. 3, 1907.

certain new and useful ,7 being to provide tin-apparatus shall be compact and simple in construction, econom- Unrrnn STI/YEES PATENT erosion.

; LEON P. LOWE, OF Silhi FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

GAS-MAKING AIPARATUS.

I Application filed- 7- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. ienon P. Lown'a citizen of the United States. residing at San l rancisco. in the county of San Francisco and State of (,alit'orniii. have invented improvements in Gas-Making Apparatus. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved apparatus for generating gas froni oil. the object of the invention for this purpose which ical in operation. and which will avoid the deposit and accumulation of carbonaceous material.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l isa broken side elevation of the apparatus; Fig. 2 is :i broken end view thereof", Fig. 3 is a broken plan view.

Referring to the drawing. 1 represents a casing, lined with refractory material 2. and divided into two chambers 3 by a transyerse wall 4 resting uponnn arch 6. Upon other arches 5 at the bottom oi the chambers and at. the same level with the arch 6, is supported loosely -piled refractory material 7. With the top of each chamber 3 there are connected av steam supply pipe 8, a gas outlet pipe 9, and a line 10 leading to a stacl: 11

and controlled by a valve 12. said flues being also connected by branches 13, controlled by valyes lite on air supply pipe 15, for furnishing an air blast-to either chamber. Into a common combustion and generating chamber 16 beneath the archeso and 5 discharge two oil pipes 17, one beneath each oi the chambers 3. The

gas outlet pipes 9 lead into washers 18.

The method oi operating the apparatus is as follows. The oil supply pipes 17 being opened, one of the fines 10 is closed atthe top and the other opened. and an air blast. is directed into the former fine. and is forced down through the corresponding chamber 3 to burn the oil injected into the combustion chamber, the products 035 combustion passing up through the other chamber 3, and highly heating refractory material therein, and then passing out by the stack. After a snllicient time,

49 the direction of supply of air is reversed and the prodnets of combustion are passed upwards through the first chamber, heating in turn the reiructory material therein, .The air thus supplied for combustion was highly heated by the refractory material before comgreat heat. This operation is repeated in both directibns alternately, until the two chambers are hroughtto s sufiiciently high temperature for gas making.

Specification of Letters Patent.

1906., Serial No. 252,225. Renewed September 3.

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, described.

'45bu'stion, thus economizing in fuel and producing Patented Oct. 29,11907.

1907- Serlsl No. 391.150.

Any adhering carbonaceous material which would otherwise be thrown off as smoke is burned oii thereby ugain cconomizing in fuel. The preliminary heating being now effected, the gals making stage oi' the process begins. Let it be supposed that, at the end of this preliminary heating, air was supplied to the chamber il'on the right. The oil supply 17 on the left is now shut off, as is also the air supply 13 on the right, and in place thereof steam is introduced on the right and passes downwards through the chamber 3. it thereby becomes superheated vapor in the combustion and generating chamber. the two passing up through the highlyheated piles of refractory material in the chamber 3 on the loft. lorming fixed gas, which escapes through the gas outlet pipe 9 into the washer 18. After thisstep has been continued for a sullicient time. the steam and oil pipes on the right are shut off, air is admitted from the pipe 15 through the chamber on the left. burning off any -arbon clinging to the refractory material and the products of combustion puss'up through the chamber 3 on the right, thereby highly heating the refractory material in said chamber. When it has been sutliciently heated, the air is shut oil and steam is introduced in the place of air by the steam pipe on the left. his steam passing down through the refractory material becomes superheated, mixes with the oil in the generating-chamber and the two together pass up through the highly heated refractory material in the chamber 3 on the right, forming fixed gas, which passes off by the pipe into the washer as before. This process r definitely.

An apparatus tor making gas, comprising: a casing-11 wall dividing the interior of the easing into two chambers, an arch on which said wall rests, arches below ouch chamber, loosely plied refractory material thereon, a steam pipe, a gas outlet pipe. at flue, and menus for supplying an air blast all communicating directly with the top of each generating chamber, means for supplying oil to the if? terior of the casing beneath the said arches, and means for independently closing the steam pipe, the fine and the air blast at the top of either chamber, substantially P In witness 5 hereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of tw'h subscribing witnesses.

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L. P. Lowe,

Witnesses 1 Framers M. WRIGHT, BrtSSil-i Gonmn mn.

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