Improvements in Acetylene Gas Generators.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 8th Oct., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Acetylene Gas Generators.
I THEODOR MANGER, of Bamberg, in the Kingdom of Bavaria. and Einpire
of Germany, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in appliances for generating acetylene
gas, the object being to automatically supply the apparatus with water so that
the plant requires very little or no attention except such as is necessary to re-
charge the carbide vessels.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing
which shews a sectional side elevation of an acetylene gas plant in accordance with
this invention.
According to this invention, a pipe 1 pivoted on the cock 5 has at one of its
ends a weight 2 which causes the said pipe 1 to press firmly against the lever
or arm 3 fixed on the gasometer 4, and also to close the cock 5 to the water
pipe 6, when the gasometer 4 is by pressure of gas moved upwards, When the
gasometer 4 falls in the cylinder 4 through a diminished pressure of gas, the
lever 3 presses down the pipe 1 and opens the cock 5 to the water pipe 6, and
water flows through the mouth of this pipe 1 into the funnel 7.
When the gasometer 4 has moved upwards through a short space, the pipe 1
assumes an inclined position as shewn in the drawing, and the cock 5 is closed.
When gas is consumed the gasometer sinks and the lever 3 opens the cock 5
and water flows to the carbide vessel 8 and the development of gas is continued.
By this arrangement a constant and regular generation of acetylene gas is
ensured, and in proportion as the gas is consumed, new gas is generated and
fed into the gasometer 4.
When all the carbide enclosed in the vessel 8 is consumed, no gas is developed,
and the gasometer 4 sinks and the chain or wire 9 turns the cock 10 by means
of the lever 11, so that water flows from the funnel 7. to the second carbide
vessel 12, and the development of gas is continued in the latter vessel.
From the vessels 8 and 12 the gas is conducted through pipes 15 and 16 to
a cleaning apparatus 13 and from this to the gasometer 4 through a pipe 14.
The two vessels 8 and 12 may be surrounded with a water jacket, or stand in a
cistern of water if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
(1) The general construction, arrangement, and combination of parts con-
stituting the improved acetylene gas plant, as and for the purpose herein de-
scribed and substantially as illustrated by the annexed drawing

page_text: (2) A pipe 1 pivoted on a cock 5 and weighted at one end and depressed at
the other by the falling gasometer as and for the purpose herein described and
substantially as illustrated by the annexed drawing.
Dated this 11th day of August 1898.
THEODOR MANGER,
By his Agents, Brierley & Howard,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.