US992431A - Feeding apparatus for gas-producers. - Google Patents

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L. LEE.

FEEDING APPARATUS FOR GAS PRODUCERS. APPLIoATloN FILED JAN. 9, 19117.

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L' PEBDING APPARATUS FOR GAs'PRoDUcBRs.

APPLICATION FILED. JAN. 9, 191.1l 992,431 yPatented-May'16,1911.

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UNITED sTAirns 1r f table measuring device, each rotating on a a layer of uniform depth.

trough 4 constitutes a track for the wheels The opening 9 is located at one side of the LEIF LEE.v or ritgsrowit'onio l FEEDING APPARATUS FOR GAS-IPRODUt'IlRSv Application led January 9,

To all whom it may concern: i Be it known that l, LEIF Lne. a citizen of the United States, residing at Youngstown. in the county of Mahoning and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful lmprovements in Feeding Apparatus for Gas- Produ'cers and the Like.

My invention relates to fuel-feeding devices for delivering. measured quantities of fuel uniformly around the center of a gasproducer or equivalent.

It is the principal object of my invention to provide a rotatable hopper with a rotavertical axis and at different angular speeds.` so that a series of measured quantities ot fuel may be deposited in ditferentpositions around the center of the producer to form Referring to the accompanying sheets of drawings which illustrate the preferred form of my invention, Figure 1 is a central Vertical section of 'the-upper portion of a gas-producer, parts being shown in elevation; Fig. 2 a horizontal section taken on Fig. 1 above the ho per, the frame-work being omitted; and Fig. 3, a plan of the rotary measuring device.

On the drawings, 1 designates the inclosing wall of a gas-producer or the like, having thereon the top plate 2 with the central circular opening 3, through which fuel is discharged into the producer. The opening 3 is surrounded by the annular water trough 4. The outer wall or side of the 5, which support thefuel-feeding device, having at the upper. end 'a chute-like receptacle 6 for fuel, the sides of the receptacle being shaped so as to conduct the fuel to one side of the axis of the hopper where a wedge-like horizontal discharge-opening 7 is arranged to deliver fuel -to the rotary measuring device 8, which in turn delivers the fuel to the discharge opening 9 in the cover 22 which covers the opening 3 and has a circular flange in the water trough 4. The cover 22 isrigidly connected to the hopper 6 so that they rotate in a fixed relation.

center of the cover so as to discharge material through the. opening 3 into the producer. The opening 9 should not be in vertical alinement with the opening 7.. These openings are shown 180 apart, but they may be arranged differently.

Speeiticaton of Letters Patent. Patel] 1 Hl`he. .measuring dem ce disk providedy with.

The said axis-f rotatie!) I centralopening tea May iii-i i 191,1. serial iro.- 601, ,y

opening 21` arrangw l", spect to they axls of rot vertical shaft 11i;

' up through the axialf n A, H iqppgi; t3, and hasits upper end "priiiided"'wiftli the spur-gear llgearing with the pinion 11 on the shaft 15 parallel with the shaft 11. 'lhe shaft 15 carries the pinion 16 which meshewit'h the peripheral teeth 17 on thev hopper G. The shaft 15 carries also the worm wheel 1o' meshing with the worin 19 on the .shaft 20, which is driven in any suitable manner. The shaft 11 is secured by the cross-pin 2U' extending through the'shaft 11 and the hub of the diskl 8, which has its bottoni cored out 1.3 as shown on Fig. 3 and below the opening T on Fig. 1. v

The disk 8 is shown with a si 'Iglo measuring opening 21 which extends tn'rough'the disk from one face to the other. k.lfVhen the measuring opening 21 is beneath 'the hopperopening'?, fuel drops into the openinn' 21A and is-supported by the cover 22 in which the aforesaid opening 9A is located. \Vhen`-, the dislrS is rotated so that the openings l? 185 and 21 register, the fuel in the opening- 21. falls through the opening 9 and into the chamber 23 of the producer. lhe opening 21 has its sides definedv by radii of the disk, thereby causing the fuel therein to have a w. ge-like shape with the narrow part nearest the center of the disk. This shape of the opening 21, the opening 9 having substantially the same shape, causesinore fuel to be deposited at the outer portions of the chamber than at the central portions, thereby depositing the fuel in the chamber in a substantially even manner from circumference to center. The shapeof the openings may be variously shaped so as to distribute the fnelas desired.

I have .shown the hopper (3 and the disk 8 (ih icli am i `rotatable in the saine direction, but with the ber of tirnes at diii'erent angular vdistances from any given position ofthe said openings' "before these openings 'again assume the said given position,iv each deposit of fuel being l dropped the same langular distance from 4the may be made withoutjdeparting from the gistofmy; invention. Itis clear that my improvementsmay be' employed for feeding charges to furnaces or other apparatus.

. I claim-l ina gas-producer orthe like, a topl havingan opening, a vrotatable gas-seal cover therefor, having a discharge opening ar- I ranged to deliver material through the opento the said cover and, having a discharge opening out of vertical alinenient with the opening in the cover, a horizontally rotatable diskV located'between the hopper and the cover and provided with one or more measuring pockets arranged tov be brought; into register alternately with the discharge openings in the hopper and the cover, means for-rotating thehopper and the COVGI, and means for independently rotating the meas9 uring device.

Signed at of'January, A. D.. 1911. LEIF LEE.

. Witnesses:

JOHN C; CASEY,

J. F. KING.

Yoiingstown, O'hiothis 5th clay

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