US946806A - Vaporizer-heating device. - Google Patents

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A. E. OSBORN. VAPORIZER HEATING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 13, 1906.

Patented Jan. 18, 1910.

ALDEN E. OSBORN, OF YORK, Y.

VAPORIZER-HEATING DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ALDEN E. OSBORN, a

citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of the Bronx, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved VapOriZer-Heating- Device, of which the following is a full, QlQ211',"21-I1d exact descrip- The invention relates to a novel means for heatingthe vaporizers of heat engines using liquid fuels, particularly internal combustion 'enginesand oil fired steam engines.

' In automobilev practice it is,a common disadvantage, particularly in cold weather,th a't in starting the engine the vaporizer cannot be made 'to work properly sc that delay and inconvenience result. l

My invention "is especially suited .to troubles of this sort, and provides a means by which the'headlight or other lantern of the automobilemay be utilized to heat the vaporizer, so that when starting the machine it is only necessary to light the lamp which will furnish the'heat necessary for starting the operation of the vaporizer, and if desired this heatmay be continuedthroughout the entire operation of the machine.

WVhile the invention is especially adapted -to use on internal combustion engine-driven automobiles, it may.obviously be used' on steam-driven automobiles and n other analogous arts.

The invention resides in certain special features of construction and combinations of parts which will be fully set forth hereinafter and particularly pointed out in the claims.

leference is to be had to the accompanying drawings which illustrate as an example the preferred embodiment of my invention,

in .which drawingsarrangement in which the carbureter is attached to and forms a part of the lamp; and Fig. 4 isa View showing an arrangement by Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Jan. 18, was

Application filed January 13, 1906. Serial No. 295,882.

which the volatile oil employed as a fuel is heated instead of the air.

Referring especially to Fig. 1, it wil be seen that this view shows by the broken lines 10 the internal combustion engine of the automobile, and by the broken lines 11 the carbureter thereof. These parts are covered by the bonnet 12 in the usual manner. I let,

indicates oneof the side lights ofthe machine which .15 mounted alongside of the bonnet as shown. Passing from the heater,-

which willbe hereinafter fully set forth, is

a pipe 15 which is preferably, though not. I

necessarily, of flexible material, and which extendsthrough an opening 16in the bonnet of the machine, and is joined to the air inlet of the carbureter 11. It is clear from the fore oin that the lam l4 inav be .made to s g 1 I perform the double function of illuminating the path of the. vehicleand of heating the air as it is delievered to the carlmreter. This preliminary heating of theair is especially. useful in starting the enginealthough 1t111ay with advantage, especially when thelatmoshere is humid be carried on continuousl during the operation of the engine.

Fig. 2 shows a sectional view of the lamp shown in Fig. 1. This lamp is provided with a burner, hood, reflector and lens which may be of the usual or any desired: construction. Rising from an opening in the top of the hood of the lamp is a chimney tube 17 the top of which is closed by a plate 18 having downwardlyoverhanging edges 18*, Just under said edges 18 the chimney 17 is formed with outlet openings 17" for the hot gases passing from the interior of the hood of the lamp. Below said openings the chimney tube 17 is provided exteriorly with an annular apron 19 spaced from the outer walls of the chimney Vithin the chimney anair pipe 20 is coiled, as shown, the inlet end of this pipe passing through the walls of the chimney under the apron 19, and the outlet end passing through a coupling 21 which joins said tube with the tube 15, before described and shown in Fig. 1. In this manner the lamp while serving its usual function of illuminating the path of the vehicle heats the coil 20 and as the air is drawn through this coil the heat is taken up by the air which is thus carried to the carbureter in a heated state.

Fig. 3 shows an arrangement in which the carbureter is mounted directly on the lamp 14*. In this view 22 indicates the float chamber of the carbureter, and 23 the vaporizer chamber, both of which parts are of the usual construction excepting that the vaporizer chamber is formed wlth a number of hot air "passages 2&, extending vertically formation ofa proper explosive mixture irrespective of the-weather conditions.

' i If desired, fuel as contradistinguished from air may be heated preliminary to vaporization, and in Fig. 4 I have illustrated a means for attaining this result. In this view the chimney tube 17 of the. lamp 14" isprovided with a coiled pipe 25, one end of which communicates with the gasolene supi ply and the'other end of which passes to the lene is. led to the carbureter' where it may be readilyvaporized, as will be understood.

carbureter, thus heating the gasolene by the heat of the lamp. From the coil 25 the gaso- Having thus described the preferred form of my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a motor vehicle, an internal com- I bustion engine, a body or casing inclosing the same, means outside of said casing for illuminatin the path of the vehicle and also operating to generate waste heat, and means for forming an explosive charge and delivering the same to the engine, said lastmentioned means havin a portion thereof heated by said illuminating means and util-,

izing said waste heat. t

2. The combination with a vehicle, of a motor operated by a liquid or gaseous fuel,

a lamp for illuminating. the path of the vehicle and operating to generate waste heat, and means for imparting said waste heat to the fuel delivered to said engine.

3. A motor vehicle, havin and using a liquid fuel, a hood or casing for .said engine and normally concealing the same, a lamp for illuminating the pathway ofthe vehicle and disposed outside of and adjacent said hood or casing, and a conduit for delivering fuel to'said engine, said conduit having a portion thereof heated bywaste heat from said lamp without interfering with the illumination causedby the latter and said conduit extending through said hood or casing to said engine. i In testimony whereof I have signed my name'to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALDEN E. osBoRN.

Witnesse s:

ISAAC B. OWENS,

an internal. I combustion engine forprope ing the same

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