Improvements in Oil-gas Producing Apparatus.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 7th July, 1890-Accepted, 11th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Oil-gas Producing Apparatus.
I JOHN LAWSON of Pembroke Terrace Bridlington Quay in the County of York
Hot Water Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My present invention relates to oil gas producing apparatus and the object thereof
is, to economise the consumption of fuel used for its production as well as to improve
the construction of such apparatus so that gas may be produced more quickly and a
better quality obtained; to attain which I employ in the usual manner a receptacle
or tank which is fixed at a suitable elevation and contains the amount of oil required
to be converted into gas. From said tank or receptacle I conduct or arrange a
pipe which is preferably composed of hydraulic tubing technically so known and
which extends downwards to a suitably formed furnace within which it is arranged
to coil in the form of a helix or spiral, that is to say the said tube enters the lower
portion of the furnace and coils upwards spirally until it leaves the top portion of
the furnace from where it is conducted to any ordinary or suitable condenser which
is in communication with a gas-holder in the ordinary way.
The essential part of my present invention consists in the use of hydraulic tubing
arranged in the form of an open coil within a conical furnace by which means a good
quality of gas may be produced quickly and with less fuel than is the case with oil
gas producing apparatus constructed in the ordinary manner.
I would have it understood that two or more coils of tubing may be used where
preferred and in like manner any number of tubes may be arranged to conduct the
oil from the receptacle to the coil or coils in the furnace.
Dated this 10th day of October 1889.
H. F. BOUGHTON, M.I.M.E.,
Barnsley and Sheffield, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Oil-gas Producing Apparatus.
I JOHN LAWSON of Pembroke Terrace Bridlington Quay, in the County of York
Hot Water Engineer 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 :-
My invention relates to oil gas being generated by an apparatus in a coil, A.
of hydraulic tubing enclosed in a brick furnace, B. the apparatus to be supplied by
gravitation, C. with petroleum or other oils in hydraulic tubes from a cistern, or
tank, D. suitably elevated and placed secure from danger the feed tube to be regulated
by taps, E. and throttle valve, F. with escape pipe, G. to prevent reaction, the supply
tube enters the lower part of the furnace and when the oil is sufficiently vapourized
it passes through, H. into a hydraulic I and condenser, K. as in the drawing annexed
the residuum being naptha descends by gravitation into the lower tube or collector. L.
of the condenser and is utilized for fuel direct or by absorption into coke for the
furnace as required, the gas by evolution leaves the condenser by the pipe, M. for
immediate use or being stored for the future in a gasometer.
I note a tap is placed, N. above the furnace and another immediately below, 0.
for cleaning the coil of hydro carbon by an acid or otherwise.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. The means for lighting buildings or rooms through a coil of tubing by generating
vapour or gas of exceptional purity from petroleum.
2. With the illuminating power of 60 candles and of extraordinary richness being
free from carbonic gas, as the residuum is.
3. Naptha, and at the cost as per analysis of 6/- per 1000 ft. with 3 times the
lighting power of ordinary coal gas produced as set forth and in the manner and for
the purpose specified.
D: 5th 1... CT 1800
JOHN LAWSON,
Bridlington Quay, Hot Water Engineer.