NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CHARGING ATMOSPHERIC AIR WITH THE VAPOUR OF HYDROCARBON LIQUID.
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Holland, of Birmingham, Tool Maker,
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for the Invention of "NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CHARGING
ATMOSPHERIC AIR WITH THE VAPOUR OF HYDROCARBON LIQUID.".
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Sealed the 11th September 1874, and dated the 14th March 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry. Holland at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 14th March 1874.
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I, HENRY HOLLAND, of Birmingham, Tool Maker, do hereby declare
the nature of the said. Invention for "NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
CHARGING ATMOSPHERIC AIR WITH THE VAPOUR OF HYDROCARBON. LIQUID," to be
as follows:- 1.
This Invention relates to new or improved apparatus for charging
atmospheric air with the vapour of hydrocarbon liquid for the purpose of
producing inflammable gas or vappour, adapted for lighting and heating
purposes.

page_text: According to my Invention I construct a box-of tin or other suitable
material, and fit up the same with shallow trays placed one over the
other to contain the hydrocarbon liquid. Near the end of each tray I
form a slit or aperture extending across the whole breadth of the tray,
and furnish such aperture with sides uprising to about half the height
of the sides of the trays. Theso apertures are formed alternately at
opposite ends of contiguous trays, and answer the purpose of waste
pipes to conduct the hydrocarbon from one tray to that next below it,
when the liquid in the former rises to a higher level than the sides of
the aperture.
The hydrocarbon is poured by a funnel into the uppermost tray, which
it fills to the top of the waste aperture, and then falling into the trays
below fills them also in succession. When the hydrocarbon issues from
a stop cock provided at the bottom of the box a sufficient quantity has
been introduced.
The air to be carburetted is forced in at the bottom of the box, and
passing upwards through the apertures in the several trays has exposed
to it in such passage the surface of the hydrocarbon in each tray
successively; and thus by the time it reaches the top it is thoroughly
saturated with the vapour thereof, and is then conducted away for
combustion..
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Holland in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 14th September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
HOLLAND, of Birmingham, Tool Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by. Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Henry Holland, Her special license that
I, the said Henry Holland, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I; the said Henry Holland, my executors, admini
strators, and assigns, should, at any time agree with, and no others,

page_text: from time to time, and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel.
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR CHARGING ATMOSPHERIC AIR WITH THE VAPOUR OF HYDROCARBON LIQUID,".
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Holland,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe.
and ascertain the nature of the said. Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great-
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Holland, do hereby declare:
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say:
This Invention relates to new or improved apparatus for charging.
or impregnating atmospheric air with the vapour of liquid hydrocarbon
for the purpose of producing inflammable gas or vapour adapted for
lighting and heating purposes.
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And in order that my Invention may be clearly understood, and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the same with the
aid of the accompanying Drawings, reference being had to the figures
and letters marked thereon, and in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal
vertical section; Figure 2, a transverse vertical section; and Figure 3,
a plan, with the lid or top removed.
The apparatus or generator consists of an outer casing A of tin or
other suitable material, provided internally with a succession of shallow
horizontal trays B, arranged one above the other. These trays extend
right across the box from side to side (see Figure 2), and nearly from
end to end (see Figure 1), the break or space thus left at the end of
each tray being alternately at opposite ends of the generator. The
liquid to be vaporized and taken up by the air is introduced at the
pipe C, which is then securely closed by a screw capsule, or by other
suitable means. The liquid on being introduced falls first into the
uppermost of the trays B, and after filling the same then runs over the
edge at the end into the second tray, filling it, and so on until the whole

page_text: of the trays are filled; when if any more liquid be introduced it will run
over into the bottom of the generator and out at the cock D, which is
purposely left open to ascertain when the trays are full. The com-
munications C and D are then shut off, and the air to be charged with
the
vapour of the liquid is introduced at the pipe E, whence it takes
the direction indicated by the arrows, and thus passes over a very
extended area of the surface of the liquid, which it thus vaporizes, and
so becomes thoroughly charged therewith, and is led away by the
pipe F as inflammable gas or vapour, either to a holder for storage and
future use, or direct to burners for immediate combustion.
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The liquid used for the manufacture of inflammable gas or vapour
by means of my improved apparatus may be any of those well known
and at present in use for such purposes.
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Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to or may be
performed, I claim as my Invention to be secured by the herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent the new or improved apparatus for
charging or impregnating atmospheric air with the vapour of hydro-
carbon liquid, substantially as herein-before set forth and described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Holland, have hercunto set
'my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-four..
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