US621933A - Lighting device for hydrocarbon-burners - Google Patents

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No. 62|,933. Patented Mar. 28, I899.

- 0. P. MOON.

LIGHTING DEVICE FOR HYDROCARBON BURNEBS.

(Applicafion filed. Apr. 22, 1898.) (No Model.)

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ORVILLE P. MOON, OF LORAIN, OHIO.

LIGHTING DEVICE FOR HYDROCARBON-BURNERS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 621,933, dated March 28, 1899.

Application filed April 2 2, 1 8 9 8.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, ORVILLE P. MOON, acuizen of the United States, residing at Lorain, in the county of Lorain and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lighting Devices for Hydrocarbon- Burners; and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to lighting devices for hydrocarbon-burners; and the invention consists in the construction and combination of parts, substantially as shown and described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical central sectional elevation of an oiltank designed more especially to be used with a gasolene-stove and showing a longitudinal section of thelighting device or oil-conveyer in its position as appears when out of use. Fig. 2 is a vertical central sectional elevation of a hydrocarbon-burn er, presumably a gasolene-burner, and an elevation of the oil-conveyer in position to supply a quantity of the fluid to the burner.

The idea of this invention is to take from the oil-tank a sufficient quantity of oil to afford ented, so that the present invention is an improvement in the art of lighting this class of burners. In this instance the purpose is to take from the oil-tank only a fixed and limited quantity of oil and transfer it by hand to the burner. To this end I provide what is termed by some a lighting device, but more properly an oil conveyer or carrier, and comprising a barrel 2 and a stem 3, which is projected through the barrel and has a valve 4 at its lower end adapted to close the barrel oil-tight Serial N0. 678,477. (No model.)

from without at the bottom. This stem 3 extends through the barrel above some distance, as shown, and is provided with a spiral spring 5, arranged and adapted to produce an upward pull on the stem and hold the valve 4:ll1 closed position. The barrel 2 is cored out sufficiently to hold the desired quantity of oil, which of course is a relatively small quantity, and in order that the oil-supply may flow freely when the valve is opened the valvestem is more orless flattened on Opposite sides, or may be fluted or the like at 6, thus facilitating the outflow of oil as soon as the valve is opened, relatively as shown in Fig. 2.

' In Fig. 2 it will be seen that the burner A has a central Web or support 7 for the oil-conveyer, with an aperture through which the valve is projected and beneath the aperture a bridge or cross-piece 8, which serves as a stop or rest for the valve when opened, the barrel 2 in the meantime resting upon the support 7 and the bridge preventing the valve being depressed beyond t-he requisite point. WVhen in this position, the barrel readily discharges the oil, which flows down over the central supply-pipe of the burner and quickly volatilizes as it is exposed to the atmosphere; but any surplus will drop into the cup 9 below. This cup and the space above it preferably are protected round about by a perforated sleeve 10,

overlapping the perforated tube 11 above and adapted to slide up on said tube so as to get at the cup 9 and clean it, if required. Then in order to light the vapor a match applied in proximity to the perforations of the tubes 10 or 11 will ignite the vapor within and the burner will be promptly heated to a starting condition. Of course the moment that the oil is discharged from the barrel 2 the lighting device or conveyer B is restored to position, as in Fig. 1, where it remains until used again.

It will be further noted that upon the stem .3 there is a sliding plug or cork 12, adapted to close the upper end of the long tube 0. This tube projects in this instance at an angle through the oil-tank D, so that its upper end either passes immediately outside of the filling-funnel 13 of said tank, as shown, but it may pass through said funnel and thus be hidden except at its extremity. At its opposite end the tube 0 projects through the tank relatively as shown and has a cavity 14, into which the valve 4 may be projected when the barrel 2 is to be filled with oil, and the said barrel fits easily into the said tube, so that there will be a prompt fiow of oil to the inside thereof when the valve is opened for that purpose, and the air in the barrel Will readily escape at the top thereof. An oil'inlet is shown at the bottom of the tank to said tube, so that if there be any oil in the tank the barrel will be filled, and a slot 16 in the tube higher up not only affords ventilation but an escape for the oil that may be in the tube behind the barrel when the barrel is withdrawn for lighting.

The position and relation of the tube C in respect to the tank and its funnel 13 are purposely as shown, so that when the tank is laid down for filling the mouth of the tube will always be above the filling-level and thus prevent escape of oil when the tank is being filled. Otherwise any position of the tube 0 in the tank would serve the purpose. The

plug 12 is adapted to slide freely on stem 3 and serves to close the upper end of the tube C, as shown in Fig. 1.

In operation, having filled the barrel 2 with oil and withdrawn the thumb from the cap 18 on the npper'end of the valve-stem the valve 4 closes and the barrel can be safely withdrawn without danger from spilling or overflowing any portion of the oil, and it is then set in position from the top of the stove or burner, as seen in Fig. 2, and when placed into position is depressed, as therein shown, and the oil liberated, as hereinbefore described.

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

1. The burner having a central portion to serve as a rest for an oil-conveyor and a valverest beneath said support, in combination with the oil-conveyor having a downwardlyopening valve to seat on said rest, substantially as described.

- 2. The oil-conveying barrel, a combined valve-stem and handle projecting through the barrel at both ends and a valve at its lower end arranged to seat from the outside, and a spring about said stem and handle bearing on the end of said barrel to close the valve,

in combination with the burner havinga rest

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