Improvements in or relating to the Method of Vapourising Oil and to Apparatus for use in Burning the same.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1898-Accepted, 4th Mar., 1899
Improvements in or relating to the Method of Vapourising Oil and to
Apparatus for use in Burning the same.
A communication from CHARLES AUGUSTUS SгOCKSTROM, of 414, North Broadway,
St. Louis, Mi, United States of America, and LOUIS STOCKSIROM, of 827,
Chouteau Avenue, St. Louis aforesaid, Manufacturers
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 111, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:--
This invention relates to an improved coal oil burner and to a new method or
process of burning coal oil wherein the oil is converted into a vapor which 18
conducted by gravity to the place where it is mixed with oxygen.
Fig I is a vertical section of the burner
Fig II is a horizontal section taken on line II-II, Fig. I
Fig III is a top view of the base of the burner.
1 represents the base of the burner which consists of an outer cylinder 2, an
inner cylinder 3, a central tube 4, a alotted diaphragm 5 and bars 6 located above
the slotted diaphragm. The cylinders 2 and 3 are open at the bottom to permit
air to pass up through the slotted diaphragm, and to prevent too much an passing
up through the inner cylinder there is located a plate 7 beneath the cylinder 3,
which plate has a central opening through which a requisite amount of air can pass.
8 represents an annular cup that rests on the bars 6 and which forms a vapor-
izing chamber or channel. This cup is open in the center and it has an outer
flange 9, an inner flange 10 and a depression 11 in its bottom. 12 represents the
oil supply pipe connecting with the cup 8 and which leads from a suitable tank,
not shown,
Resting on the cup 8 against the flange 10, is an inner perforated cylinder 19,
and resting on the cup, also, against the flange 9, is an outer perforated cylinder 14,
these cylinders 13 and 14 being surrounded by an imperforate cylinder 15 that is
open at top and bottom and the lower end of which fits over the upper end of the
basc 1. The cylinder 14 is open at top, while the cylinder 13 has a closed top 16.
Within the cylinder 13 is an upper imperforate diaphragm 17 and a lower perfor-
ated diaphragm 18 Beneath the diaphragm 18 18 a disk 19 of less diameter than the
inside of the cylinder 13 and which is suspended from the diaphragm 17 by rods 20.
21 represents a pipe open at both ends and which extends up through the tube 4
and into the cylinder 13 to a point above the diaphragm 17. The cylinders_13,
14 and 15 and the pipe 21 are fastened together by bolts 22 as shown in Fig. I
Within the cup 8 is a ring 23 of absorbent non-combustible material, such as
asbestos. This ring is for use in initially heating the burner
The operation of the burner is as follows.
A small amount of oil is allowed to pass into the cup 8 through the pipe 12 and
then a match 18 applied to the ring 23 which has absorbed most of the oil that
was admitted to the cup The oil burns on the ring as on the wick of an ordinary
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page_text: lamp and heats the cup 8 and after the cup has become heated the oil is turned
on more and allowed to flow slowly to the cup. As it comes in contact with the
hot cup it vaporizes and the vapor, being heavier than the atmosphere, flows by
gravity around the cup and as it becomes mixed with oxygen it rises into the
space between the cylinders 13 and 14 where combustion takes place and there 18
maintained a blue flame at the top of the burner. By providing the diaphragm 17
the air entering the cylinder 13 through the perforated diaphragm 18 15 com-
pelled to pass out of the cylinder 13 before it reaches the top of the cylinder, thus
aiding in the mixing of the vapor and air in the lower part of the burner, while
by providing the tube 21, air 18 furnished to the upper part of the cylinder 13, to
escape therefrom through the perforations above the diaphragm 17, and mix with
the vapor. By providing the disk 19 a rush of too much air into the lower part
of the cylinder 13 18 prevented.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
Lion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondents I declare that what
claim 18-
1 The process herein described, consisting first in converting the oil into vapor
and then conveying the vapor by gravity to the place where it is oxygenized, sub-
stantially as described
2 The process herein descubed of converting oil into vapor and conveying and
burning the vapor, which consists first in vaporizing the oil by exposing to a
heated surface, then conveying the vapor by gravity to the place where it is
oxygenized, and then supplying air to the vapor to meet the demands of com-
bustion, substantially as described
3. A vapor burner having a channel, in which the vapor 18 distributed or con-
veyed by gravity, substantially as described.
4. A vapor burner having a vapor receiving and conveying channel or chamber
provided with a free opening at top, in combination with perforated cylinders
located over the chamber, and an imperforate cylinder surrounding the perforated
cylinders, substantially as described.
5 In a vapor burner, the combination of a base, constructed to permit the
passage of air, a vaporizing cup supported on the base, inner and outer perforated
cylinders located over the cup, an imperforate cylinder surrounding said perforated
cylinders, and a non-combustible absorbent ring located in said cup, substantially
as described
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