US949133A - Crude-oil burner. - Google Patents

Description

F. D. STALPORD.

CRUDE OIL BURNER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 10, 1910.

Patented Feb. 1 5, 1910.

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form to the shape of the fire-pot.

FREDERICK D. STALFORD, OF FREDERICK, OKLAHOMA.

CRUDE-OIL BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 15, 1910.

Application filed January 10, 1910. Serial No. 537,098.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK D. STAL- roRD, citizen of the United States, residing at Frederick, in the county of Tillman and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Crude-Oil Burners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprehends certain new and useful improvements in burners for crude oil or other hydrocarbons, and the invention has for its object a simple, durable and eflicient construction of device of this character which may be easily applied to the fire-pot of a cooking or heating stove of any ordinary or conventional type, with a minimum of labor, and which, when in use, will effectively heat the stove and spread the heated products of combustion to the best possible advantage.

With this and other objects in view as will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain constructions, arrangements and combinations of the parts that I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l is a perspective View illustrating one application of my device; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the fire-pot of a stove and of the crude oil burner mount ed therein; Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 2; and, Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view of a sight feed which may be employed.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated. in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

In the present instance I have shown my invention as applied to a kitchen range or cooking stove, designated A, although it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to this use, but is equally adaptable for heating stoves with fire-pots of difierent shape, it being only necessary to change the shape of my device accordingly.

Mounted in the fire-pot 1 of the stove A is a trough or casing 2, which is open at its top, as shown, and which in the present instance is rectangular in shape so as to con- The bottom 3 of the casing 2 rests directly upon the grate 4, although it may be supported in the fire-pot in other ways. The casing 3 is designed to contain any desired number of oil receptacles 5, there being two in the present embodiment of the invention. These oil receptacles 5 are formed with any desired number of troughs 6 separated by longitudinal webs 7, thereceptacles being designed to rest loosely upon the bottom 3 of the casing 2 and to be turned by tilting them on either edge, whenever it is desired to present a fresh trough or pocket upwardly to receive the fuel to be burned.

In order to assist in the tilting operation, the casing 52 is provided with lugs 8 which project upwardly from the bottom of the casing, said lugs serving as stops. It will thus be understood that in order to turn or tilt any of the receptacles 5, it is only necessary to remove a lid of the stove and apply a poker or lid lifter or any other instrument, and push or slide the receptacle in one direc tion or the other into engagement with one of the lugs 8, whereupon by pressing downwardly upon one edge of the receptacle, at an oblique angle, the receptacle may be tilted and then slid back to its position underneath the drip nozzle 9. As there are two receptacles 5 in the present instance, there are two drip nozzles, said nozzles being connected to an oil supply pipe 10 which may be entered in the stove in any desired way underneath the grate, as through the lower draft door 11, said door being utilized in the present embodiment of the invention to control the draft and admit air so that it may enter and pass up through the grate 4 into a central opening 12, with which the casing 2 is formed. The supply of oil may be se cured from a tank 13 or the like secured to the wall of the room in which the device is located or supported in any other manner, and the supply pipe'lO may be provided in its length with a sight feed which in the present instance embodies a glass cylinder 14. A drip nozzle 15 enters the upper end of the glass cylinder 14 and above said nozzle there is a globe valve 16 so that the quantity of oil passing through the nozzle may be controlled. Manifestly, by the use of this sight feed device, it may be readily determined how much oil is passing through the burner, without the necessity of removing any of the lids of the stove or of otherwise obtaining direct access to the stove for this purpose. The opening 12 which is overflow of oil from doing any damage by dripping down through the bars of the grate at. The collar 17 also serves the function of a support for a sleeve 18 which is adapted to he slipped downwardly therein and which a is held removable by frictional engagement in the collar. This sleeve 18 is formed preferably integrally with a hood or cap piece 19 which extends over the nozzle pipes 9 and over the central opening 12 and which is provided with a downwardly extending marginal edge 20, said hood serving as a spreader for the air as it flows up through the opening-l2, properly directing the air into the troughs or pockets 6 of the oil receptacles 5. The sleeve 18 is formed at its upper end with lugs 21 by which it serves to directly support the nozzle pipes 9. If desired, the casing 2 may be provided with up- 7 right partitions 23 spaced from the vertical walls of the casing, so that water may be poured into the spaces between the partitions and the adjacent casing walls to tend to prevent the formation and accumulation of soot.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanying drawing, the operation of my improved crude oil burner will be apparent. In the practical use of the device, the oil controlled by the globe valve or cock 16 will pass down the supply pipe 10 and up into the nozzle pipes 9 and will finally issue from the tips of the nozzles and drop into the upwardly facing troughs of the receptacles 5, directly underneath said nozzles. The air will be spread out over these pockets by passing in through the lower draft door 11 of the stove and thence upwardly through the grate bars a into and through the opening 12, and will be spread effectively by the cap piece or spreader 19,

casing being provided with stop lugs against 7 which the receptacle may be slid preparatory to tilting the same to change the disposition of the pockets, and a nozzle adapted to discharge fuel into said pockets.

2. A. burner of the character described, comprising a casing provided with a bottom opening, the casing being open at the top, the casing being also provided with an upstanding collar surrounding said opening, a sleeve adapted to fit within said collar, a fuel supply pipe extending upwardly through the sleeve, nozzles connected to the upper endof said pipe, the nozzles beingv supported'on the upper end of said sleeve and having their tips pointing downwardly toward the bottom of the casing, and receptacles in the bottom of the casing underneath the nozzle tips.

8. A crude oil'burner, comprising a casing provided in its bottom with an air inlet opening and a collar surrounding said opening, a sleeve adapted to fit in said opening, a downwardly facing spreader supported by said sleeve, an oil receptacle in said casing, a fuel supply pipe, and anozzle secured to said pipe and adapted to discharge into said receptacle, said nozzle being supported on the upper edge of said sleeve.

4. A crude oil burner, embodying a casing adapted to rest on the grate of a stove and arovided with an air inlet 0 enin throu 'h V s e H and a nozzle adapted to dis- I provided with a plurality of oil receiving pockets or troughs, the casing being provided in its bottom with lugs against which the receptacle is adapted to be pushed preparatory to tilting the same to change the disposition of the oil receiving troughs, and partitions mounted in the casing and extending upwardly from the bottom thereof between said lugs and the adjoining walls FREDERICK l). STALFORD. [L 8.]

W'itnesses WV. N. WOODSON,

F REDERICK S. S'rrrT.

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