US203830A - Improvement in hydrocarbon-vapor generator and burner and gas-generator - Google Patents

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. 0. HOLLAND. Hydrocarbon Vapor Generator and Burner, and I A *Gas-Generator.

v No. 203,830. Patented May 21,1878.

OCOCQUW UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES HOLLAND, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB TO PARK HOLLAND,

O13: SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HYDROCARBON-VAPUR GENERATOR AND BURNER AND GAS-GENERATOR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 203,830, dated May 21,1878; application filed April 3, 1878. 1

-the' city of Chicago, Cook county, State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hydrocarbon-Vapor Generator and Burner and Gas-Generator, of which the following is a full description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is a bottom View; Fig. 2, a side View, and Fig. 3 an end View.

The object of this invention is to improve the construction and operation of hydrocarbon or oxyhydrocarbon burners and gas-generators which operate by the combustion of the gases generated in them, and also generate an additional quantity of gas for further or future use; and its nature consists in forming a narrow or thin border around and forming a part of the retort, so as to become more highly heated than the body thereof, thereby partly performing the office of a surrounding pipe; and in the combinations of the pipes and burner or jet therewith.

In the drawings, A represents the retort, which is divided into three separate compartments in its interior, similar to those shown in my Patent No. 191,144; B, a circular convex portion for spreading the flame; a, the burner or jet from which the gases or vapors forming the flame issue; b, the gas or vapor pipe leading from the oil-compartment of the retort to the burner a; c, a coupling or union connecting the water-gas pipe with the pipe I) cl, water-gas pipe; 0 f, pipes leading from the gas-generating compartment to a gasometer or other suitable gas-holder; o 0, oilpipes, and w water-pipe.

The retort A is made of cast-iron or other suitable metal, and is divided into three separate longitudinal compartments in the ordinary manner. Its outer edges or boundaries g are made thin, so that they may become highly heated when in operation, and roast the gases or vapors, as well as assist in their formation. The pipes o o are connected, by suitable extensions, with an oil-reservoir located either within or without the building, and the waterpipe w is connected with a Water-service pipe,

or with a water tank or reservoir, and" the pipes w o 0 are filled or partly filled witlf wire cloth or gauze rolled and inserted, as hown, at the pipe 0, which is partly in section, for

regulating the quantity or flow of material.

Other means of regulation may be adopted for regulating the supply; but the means shown are preferred, as these pipes, when near the retort, are in contact with the flame, and the wire filling furnishes additional heatingsurface. In the form here shown the exitpipes are on the same plane as the inlet-pipes. The pipe 1) leads from the oil-compartment direct to the burner a, and the pipe (1, leading from the water-compartment, is let into the pipe I; by the coupling or union 0. Instead of this coupling a, which intersects at right angles, a V or branch coupling may be used in its place, so as to bring the two currents together with an equal flow. The oil-pipe 0 leads to a separate compartment, and the vapor there generated is roasted into a permanent gas by the thin edge g connected therewith and pipes e f, which are reached and heated by the flame.

The gas so formed is conducted off from the pipe f to a suitable gas-holder, from which it is distributed off for lighting purposes, or for heating an ordinary gasstove. When the burner and generator are in place and properly connected the pipe-support 00 will be unnecessary, and may be omitted.

It will be seen that in this form the two streams of oil-gas and superheated steam are united behind the burner, so that but one flame is formed.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The retort A, having the enlarged body flaring outward and upward to a border of less diameter, substantially as shown, for the purpose described.

CHARLES HOLLAND. WVitnesses:

L. L. BOND, O. W. BOND.

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