Improvements in Explosion Engines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 6th June, 1896.
Complete Specification Left, 6th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 10th Apr., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Explosion Engines.
We, JAMES CARTER, SIDNEY CARTER, FRANK CARTER and EVERSHED
CARTER, trading as Carter Brothers, Engineers, of Billingshurst, in the County
of Sussex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the explosion engine for which we
obtained Letters Patent No. 9889 of 1894 and has for its object to increase the
efficiency of the said engine.
According to our present improvements instead of passing the oil inlet tube
directly into the vaporizer as in our said former patent, we cause the oil to be
delivered in quantities sufficient for one explosion only into the open funnel or cup-
shaped end of a tube in communication with the vaporizer and having a suitable
valve. The petroleum is then sucked from the cup into the vaporizer during the
out-stroke or suction of the piston.
With this construction of oil inlet we have found that it is impossible for an
overcharge of oil to be sucked into the vaporizer as only the quantity contained in
the cup or funnel can be so sucked in.
Instead of the valve regulating the admission of air to the vapour before its
entry into the combustion chamber, we now provide the air-inlet pipe with a plate
having a central hole the diameter of which is made of the required size.
We also advantageously provide a separate external combustion chamber in
communication with the cylinder portion of the combustion chamber instead of the
appular chamber through which the vaporizer passes as described in the specification"
of our former patent.
Dated this cat day of T1000
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
We, JAMES CARTER, SIDNEY CARTER, FRANK CARTER and EVERSHED"
CARTER, trading as Carter Brothers, Engineers, of Billingshurst, in the County
of Sussex, 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 the explosion engine for which we
obtained Letters Patent No. 9889 of 1894 and has for its object to increase the
efficiency of the said engine.
According to our present improvements instead of passing the oil inlet tube
directly into the vaporizer as in our said former patent, we cause the oil to be
delivered in quantities sufficient for one explosion only into the open funnel or cup-
shaped end of a tube in communication with the vaporizer and having a suitable
valve. The petroleum is then sucked from the cup into the vaporizer and thence
into the combustion chamber during the out-stroke or suction of the piston..

page_text: With this construction of oil inlet we have found that it is impossible for an
overcharge of oil to be sucked into the vaporizer as only the quantity contained in
the cup or funnel can be so sucked in.""
Instead, of the valve regulating the admission of air to the vapour before its
entry into the combustion chamber, we now provide the air-inlet pipe with a plate
having a central hole the diameter of which is made of. the required size.
We also advantageously provide a separate external combustion chamber in
communication with the cylinder portion of the combustion chamber instead of the
annular chamber through which the vaporizer passes as described in the specification
of our former patent.
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To enable our invention to be fully understood we will, describe the same.by
reference to
to the accompanying drawing, which represents in longitudinal section
the rear end of an engine cylinder with our improvements applied thereto.
a is the engine cylinder, b is the vaporizing chamber which is formed around the
tube c which serves as the chimney of the heating lamp as described in our said
former patent and d is the igniter arranged within the said tube.
e is the passage through which the vapour passes from the vaporizer to the
chamber and g is the air inlet pipe which also extends into the said chamber so
that the air and vapour mix together as they flow past the valve h on the suction
stroke of the engine into the combustion chamber h which is the separate external
combustion chamber herein before referred to being the cylinder portion of the
combustion chamber.
i is the cup into which the oil is injected by the pump through a pipe j.the said
cup communicating with the vaporizing space b through the passage k in which a
valve is seated in such a manner that it will open automatically on the suction
stroke of the engine to allow the oil injected into the cup to be drawn into the
vaporizing chamber and then again close on its seat. By thus making a break
between the delivery pipe ; of the pump and the vaporizing chamber it will be
obvious that only as much oil can be drawn into the vaporizer at each stroke as is
injected into the cup by the
pump.
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m is the plate in the form of a disc having a central hole arranged in the air
inlet pipe g and serving to regulate the quantity of air drawn into the combustion
chamber on the suction stroke the said plate, as shewn, being arranged between
two flanges m' on the pipe so that it can be readily removed to alter the size of the
hole or to introduce a plate having a larger or smaller hole as required.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is :-
1. The combination with the vaporizer. of an explosion engine of a cup into
which the oil for the explosive charges is introduced by a pump and from which
it is drawn by the suction stroke of the engine, substantially as described.
2. The combination with the vaporizer of an explosion engine of a cup connected
with the said vaporizer by a passage provided with a valve and adapted to have
injected into it the liquid hydrocarbon for the explosive charges, substantially as
described.
3. The combination with the air inlet pipe of an explosion engine of a plate or
disc such as m, substantially as, and for the purpose, described.
4. The improvements in explosion engines, hereinbefore described and illustrated.
in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 6th day of March 1807
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.