Improvements in Apparatus for use in Generating Acetylene-gas.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Aug., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 9th May, 1899-Accepted, 17th June, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for use in Generating Acetylene-gas.
WC, JAMES WILLIAM BAILEY and JOHN CLAPHAM, trading as Bailey and
Clapham, of Eagle Works, Keighley, in the County of York, Engineers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say:
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In apparatus for use in generating acetylene-gas, wherein water is
automatically admitted to hydrate the calcium carbide it is found desirable
to arrest the production of said acetylene with as little delay as possible
whenever its further use or its withdrawal from its holder is not desired, in order
that too large a quantity may not be generated until its use is again required.
Further it is found undesirable to have too large a quantity of calcium carbide
under the actions of water at any given time for the reason that its hydration,
and thereby the production of acetylene-gas, cannot be so readily and effectively
arrested.
To avoid these disadvantages by the production and employment of means which
will perform their functions automatically and efficiently is the object of our
present invention.
We attain this object by arranging the carrier, cylinder or tray, in which we
place the calcium carbide when supplying it to the generating receptacle or
generator, to have several divisions or compartments, each compartment being
arranged to receive a portion of the calcium-carbide.
On this carrier with its complement of carbide being placed in the generator,
and on the water being admitted thereto, it is arranged by the openings through
the walls of the carrier being at different levels in the different compartments,
that such water will enter one compartment at one time and the others at other
times in succession, the carbide in each compartment being thus hydrated or
spent prior to the hydration of that in its neighbouring compartment being com-
menced, by which means only such quantity of carbide as is contained in a single
compartment is at any time being acted upon, consequently although a large
quantity in the aggregate may have been put into the generator only a com-
paratively small quantity is brought into use at any given time.
Dated this 8th day of August 1898

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for use in Generating Acetylene-gas.
We, JAMES WILLIAM BAILEY and JOHN CLAPHAM, trading as Bailey and
Clapham, of Eagle Works, Keighley, in the County of York, Engineers, 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, that is to say:-
In apparatus for use in generating acetylene-gas, wherein water is
automatically admitted to hydrate the calcium carbide it is found desirable
to arrest the production of said acetylene with as little delay as possible
whenever its further use or its withdrawal from its holder is not desired, in order
that too large a quantity may not be generated until its use is again required.
Further it is found undesirable to have too large a quantity of calcium carbide
under the actions of water at any given time for the reason that its hydration,
and thereby the production of acetylene-gas, cannot be so readily and effectively
arrested.
To avoid these disadvantages by the production and employment of means which
will perform their functions automatically and efficiently is the object of our
present invention, and in order that our said invention may be readily understood
we have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof, in which:-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of apparatus for use in producing acetylene-gas, the
generating chamber being shown in section, in order to illustrate the application
of our improved container or holder for the calcium carbide.
Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional side and end views respectively of said improved
carbide holder.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view of same.
Similar letters and figures of reference indicate similar parts throughout the
several views.
To attain the object of our said invention we arrange the carrier, cylinder or
tray a, in which we place the calcium carbide when supplying it to the generating
receptacle or generator b, to have several divisions or compartments such as are
shown at a, a, a, each compartment being arranged to receive a portion of the
calcium carbide.
On the carrier a with its complement of carbide being placed in the generator 6,
and on the water being admitted thereto, it is arranged by the openings cd and e
leading through the walls of the carrier into the openings a¹, a² and a³ respectively
being at different levels, that water will first enter the compartment a', and the
others a³ and a³ in succession, the carbide in each compartment being thus
hydrated or spent prior to the hydration of that in its succeeding or neighbouring
compartment being commenced, by which means only such quantity of carbide as
is contained in a single compartment a', a² or is at any time being acted upon,
consequently although a large quantity in the aggregate may have been put into
the carrier a only a comparatively small quantity is brought into use at any
given time.
We preferably make use of a lid or cover f for the carrier a, so that the water
being fed to the generator by the pipe can not fall directly into any one
compartment, but will spread over the lid or cover f and flow down the sides of
the container,

page_text: 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:-
The improved carrier or tray for holding or containing calcium carbide used in
apparatus for the production of acetylene-gas, the same being constructed and
arranged substantially as herein specified.