US961797A

US961797A - Crude-oil burner.

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Publication number: US961797A
Application number: US53212309A
Authority: US
Inventors: Rufus C Reed
Original assignee: M W TOTTY; R D ATKINSON; W A DAY
Current assignee: M W TOTTY; R D ATKINSON; W A DAY
Priority date: 1909-12-08
Filing date: 1909-12-08
Publication date: 1910-06-21
Anticipated expiration: 1927-06-21

Description

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APPLICATION FILED DBC.8,1909.

Patented June 2.1, 1910.

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CRUDE OIL BURNER.

APPLICATION FILED 1320.13.1909.

HHH Hmm MMI/i4 RUFUS C. REED, 0F JACKSONVILLE, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 W. A. DAY, IVI. W. TOTTY, AND R. D. ATKINSON, ALL OF JACKSONVILLE, TEXAS.

CRUDE-OIL BURNER.

Application filed December 8, 1909.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, RUrUs C. REED, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jacksonville, in the county of Cherokee and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Crude-Oil Burner; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention about to be set forth belongs to the yart of burners, and particularly pertains to a new and useful hydrocarbon burnerv adapted mainly for use in connection with heating and cooking stoves or furnaces, or, Iin fact, any device or plant in which heat is necessary and employing crude petroleum or oil as the heating medium.

` The essential object of the invention is to provide manually operated means, whereby a mixture of air, crude petroleum or oil and water, may be forced, under air pressure, into a receptacle or receiving pan having a combustion chamber and against a draft or baffle plate. By forcing this mixture against a draft or bafie plate (which becomes highly heated after the first charge of this mixture is ignited) a spreading effect of the mixture is obtained, and instantaneously after this effect, the combustion occurs. As the mixture emanates from the burners (there being one or more of such burners shown) it is partly converted into vapor.

A further object of the invention is to provide means for vertically adjusting this draft or bafiie plate, whereby the spaces between the upper and lower edges thereof and the under surface of the top of the stove and the bottom of the receptacle may be regulated, in order to increase or decrease the capacity of the flame (which projects below and above the upper and lower edges of said plate).

A further object of the invention is to regulate the amount of water used and to gage the air pressure.

In this specification and the drawings annexed hereto, a particular design of device is complied with, but the invention is not to be confined to this special design. The proportions of the various parts may be changed and varied according to the necessary requirements. The device, in its actual reduction to practice, may require further Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented June 21, 1910.

Serial No. 532,123.

changes and variations; the right thereto belongs to the applicant, provided such changes and variations are comprehended by the appended claims.

In the drawings Figure l is a perspective view of an ordinary cook stove or range, showing one end thereof broken away in order to show the oil receiving pan or receptacle, with its draft or baiiie plate in position, and also illustrating the means for manually forcing a mixture of oil, air and water through the burner tubes proper. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail perspective view of the receiving pan or receptacle removed from the stove. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view through the receiving pan or receptacle, showing the guides for the draft or baffle plate, and the means for holding the same in its adjusted positions. Fig. A is a top plan view of the receiving pan or receptacle, one end thereof being partly broken away in order to show one of the guides clearer, and to further illustrateI how the draft or baffle plate is held in position. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the draft or baffle plate removed from the receiving pan or receptacle. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of a pivoted member.

Referring to the annexed drawings, 1 denotes the ordinary cook stove or range, having the usual fire-box 2, upon the grate 3 onwhich a receiving pan or receptacle 4 is positioned. This receiving pan or receptacle is rectangular in plan view, and is provided with two

longitudinal side flanges

5 and 6 and two end flanges 7 and 8. The end iianges 7 and 8 are provided with guideways 9 and 10 which receive the draft or baffle plate 11, whereby the draft or baffle plate may be readily guided.

Penetrating the end flanges 7 and`8 are threaded members 12 to engage the ends of the draft or baiiie plate, in order to hold thesame in its adjusted positions, whereby the space above and below the upper and lower edge of the said plate and the top of the stove and the bottom of the receiving pan or receptacle may be increased or decreased. By increasing or decreasing the space, the ames from the combustion are also increased or decreased. This draft or bafie plate, after the first charge of the mixture of oil, air and water is ignited, becomes intensely heated, and

when the mixture is sprayed' against it, the mixture is instantly consumed in the form of a combustion. In this way, great heat is obtained in the fire-box which serves the users of this device a great service which is far in excess of other forms of devices of this or other characters for cooking and heating.

VThe longitudinal side flange 5 is provided with semicircular cutaway portions 14, in which the ends 15 of the burners proper 16 are secured by means ofthe members 17. These burners 16 are joined together by a horizontally disposed tube 18, through which the combined mixture of petroleum, air and water is forced, in order to feed the plurality of burners. These burners are further provided with valves 19, whereby the flow of mixture is regulated.

Y20 denotes the ordinary manually operated force air pump, to which is connected a tube 21.V -This tube 21 is connected to al tube 22 (which penetrates into the interior of the petroleum or crude oil tank 23) which tube 22 is provided with the usual air gage 24, whereby the air pressure may be readily ascertained. The tube 22 is provided with a valve 25 for regulating the pressure of air. The tube 22 extends in close poximity to'the bottom of said tank in Yorder that a combined mixture of air and petroleum or cru'de'oil maybe forced upand out of the upper portion'of the tank, as at 26, and through the tube 27. This tube 27 communicates with a tube or pipe 28 (which is provided with two valves 29). The tube or pipe 28 extends from a water tank 30, the water from whichV flows through the tube or pipe'28 and mixes with the combined air and petroleum or crude oil, and is projected into the horizontally disposed pipe 18 and thence into the plurality of burners proper, as clearly'shown in the drawings. The airv being under pressure when it leaves the pump 20 passes into the tank 23 below the oil, mixes with the oil, and forces a combined mixture of air and oil up through the pipe 27 At the junction where the pipe 27 communicates withthe tube or pipe 28, the combined mixture of air and oil mixes with a flow of water from the tank 30. This' mixture 'of air, oil and water iscon-veyed to the burners proper. As this mixture leaves the burners, it is partly converted into gases, but the greater part of itis projected against the draft or bafileplate, where it is broken into particles, and thereafter ignited.V

ject'ed into the' burners" 16l proper, 'om

Having thus fully set forth the invention,

what is claimed as new and useful, is

1. The combination with a heating or cooking stove having a fire-box, of a receiving pan or receptacle mounted in said iire-box, a plurality of burners extending partially through the lire-box and into the receiving pan or receptacle, a draft or baffle plate disposed vertically within the receiving pan or receptacle against which a mixture of petroleum, or crude oil, air and water is sprayed and means for adjusting the baffle plat-e.

2.Y A receiving pan or receptacle adapted to be disposed within a fire-box of a heating or cooking stove and having .a plurality of burners extending partially through the lirebox and into said receiving panv or receptacle, a draft or baffle plate mounted Vertically within said receiving pan or receptacle so that a space is formed betweenl the lower edge of the baiile plate and the receptacle and the upper edge of the baffle plate and the stove, and means to,y prevent displacement of the draft or baffle plate. 3. Areceiving pan or receptacle adapted to be disposed within a lire-box of a heating or cooking stove and having a plurality of Vburn- .ers extending partially through the ire-box and into said receiving panA or receptacle, a draft or baffle plate mounted vertically within saidreceiving pan or receptacle so that aspace is formed between the lower edge ofl the baffle plate and the receptacle anda space is formed between theupper edge of the baiiie plate and t-he stove, said receiving pan or receptacle having guideways to re-v ceive saidrdraft or lbaiiie plate, and means extending into said guideways to hold the draft. or bafiie plate in adjusted positions.

4. A receiving pan or receptacle' adapted' to be disposed within a fire-box of 'a heating or cooking stove and vhaving a plurality 'of burners extending partiallyV throughV the fire-box and into said'receiving pan or receptacle, and a vertically "adjustable'draft' for baffle plate mounted in saidreceiving pan tor receptacle whereby passagesare estabvlished'above and below the plate. Y

. 5. A receiving pan or receptacle adapted to be disposed within a fire-box 'of a heating `or 'cooking stove and having a plurality of .burners extending partially through' the firebox and into said receiving pan or'receptacle, a draftor baffle plate mounted vertically within said receiving pan or'receptacle whereby passages'areformed above and be- Llow'the plate, means to prevent-'displacement of the draft or baille plate, and means for securing the ends of the burners to the receiving pan or receptacle.

6. A receiving pan or receptacle adapted to be disposed within a re-box of a heating or cooking stove and having a plurality of burners extending partially through the firebox and into said receiving pan or receptacle, a vertically adjustable draft or bafle plate mounted in said receiving pan or receptacle whereby passages are established above and below said plate, and means for manually forcing a mixture of petroleum or crude oil, air and water through the burners and into the receiving pan or receptacle.

7. In combination with a stove having a lire box, a receptacle positioned in the fire box, having guides formed thereon, a vertically movable baffle plate, movable on the guides, means for securing the baille plate in a position whereby passages are established above and below said baffle plate, pivoted members secured to the receptacle, and burners held in position on said receptacle by said members.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RUFUS C. REED.

Witnesses:

M. W. ToTTY, W. A. DAY.