IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR BURNING OILS AND FATS WITH OR WITHOUT ADMIXTURE OF GAS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF LIGHT AND HEAT
Year: 1885

page_text: I, WILLIAM BOGGETT of 97 Cheyne Walk Chelsea in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR BURNING OILS AND FATS WITH OR WITHOUT ADMIXTURE OF GAS
FOR THE PRODUCTION OF LIGHT AND HEAT " to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to arrange and construct new or improved
apparatus for burning mineral and other oils and fats in combination with gas in
order to produce a large amount of flame and to increase its intensity by supporting
the combustion of the burning materials by certain arrangements of apparatus for
furnishing or introducing an adequate supply of air, compressed air, or a mixture
of air and common gas.
For this purpose a reservoir is arranged to contain mineral or other oils and fats
in a fluid state which is conducted into vertical chambers tubes or spaces which
are thus filled with oil from the reservoir and are also filled with capillary
substances to raise the oil.
There is an air chamber at the bottom of the apparatus from which suitable
pipes or passages proceed to supply air to the wicks or materials in a state of
combustion.
Immediately over the air chamber the oils or other combustible materials are
admitted from the reservoir the oils being conveyed to the place where they are
consumed by capillary substances.
Pipes passages or metallic vessels are arranged in combination with the spaces
containing oil to convey air from the air chamber below which air enters through
an air supply tube or passage and is used either alone or when compressed is
introduced from another pipe or tube or when mixed with gas is supplied from
another pipe or tube. Each supply pipe or tube is furnished with a tap to regulate
the quantity of air or gas supplied.

page_text: A lump of perforated pipe clay asbestos or other incombustible material is placed
on the apparatus the flame being ignited at the top.
The apparatus is surrounded by a casing.
A perforated plate of sheet metal is arranged to receive the air pipes passages or
vessels to which they are soldered or otherwise fixed to make the top of the air
supply chamber airtight.
The oil spaces forming the burners are advantageously cylindrical but they may
be made of any shape or size.
When thick heavy oils are used they must first be liquified by heat.

page_text: I WILLIAM BOGGETT of 97 Cheyne Walk Chelsea in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman 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 :-
The object of this invention is to arrange and construct new or improved
apparatus for burning mineral or other oils and fats in order to produce à large
amount of flame and to increase its intensity by supporting the combustion of the
burning or combustible materials by certain arrangements of apparatus for intro-
ducing an adequate supply of air compressed air or a mixture of air and gaseous
ingredients or compounds such as compressed oil gas or oxygen to increase the
effect of the burning oil by the means employed for causing one or more gaseous
products to impinge on the flames the compound oil gas acting to increase the
luminosity and the oxygen gas to increase the heat.
And in order that my invention may be clearly understood and readily carried
into practice I will proceed to describe the drawings hereto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a side elevation Figure 2 a vertical section and Figure 3 a plan
of a stove or apparatus arranged and constructed in accordance with my invention
Figure 4 shows a plan of similar apparatus of circular form.
In carrying out my invention a reservoir a is arranged to contain mineral or
other oils and fats in a fluid state which is conducted by the supply pipe at into
the vertical chambers or spaces 6 by the branch pipes a² which are perforated so as
to deliver the oil into the asbestos or other material contained in the chambers b in
the casing 6 and from the upper surface of which the flames issue when the
combustible material is ignited. c is a chamber into which either air compressed
air, or a mixture of air, and gaseous compounds such as compressed oil gas or
oxygen can be conducted by means of the supply pipes c' c² c³ and c' either alone
or in any desired combination the size of the pipes depending upon the size of the
apparatus or the purpose to which it is to be applied.
From the chamber c the air or gas is conducted up the passages or spaces d. d.
between the chambers or spaces b so as to impinge upon the flames which issue
therefrom. The form of the chambers a, and the spaces or passages d may be
varied Figure 4 representing them as being annular and arranged in combination
with a reservoir a chamber c and air and gas supply pipes as in the arrangement
previously described.

page_text: 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
The improved arrangements of apparatus and means employed for producing
large volumes of heat and light of great intensity by introducing the requisite
supply of air and gaseous products into and in combination with the burning oil or
fats substantially in the manner herein before described and represented in the
drawings hereto annexed."