Improvements in Apparatus for Generating Acetylene Gas.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1899-Accepted, 28th Oct. 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Generating Acetylene Gas.
I, Dr. LEON STEINER, Technisches Bureau fur Acetylenbeleuchtung, 2, Strada
Academier, Bucharest, Roumania, 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: --
This invention for improvements in apparatus for generating acetylene gas
relates to apparatus in which the bell with the carbide holders is immersed
directly in the water tank, the distinguishing feature being that the several
carbide holders are provided with water inlet openings, placed at various heights,
so that one carbide holder after the other is worked in proportion to the consump-
tion without any excessive production of gas being possible.
In the accompanying drawing:.
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 2 a sectional plan of one form of
generating apparatus constructed according to this invention.
The gasometer bell a carries a number of carbide holders or receptacles b
which upon the descent of the bell are immersed in the water contained in the
water tank whereby the generation of gas is effected proportionately to the
consumption thereof, as the lower the bell descends the greater amount of carbide
in the holders 6 comes into contact with the water through the inlet openings.
When the generation of gas has proceeded to a certain extent it is interrupted
automatically by the ascent of the bell. The carbide holders 6 consist of a
number of vessels arranged in a circle and furnished with water inlet openings.
Such openings may be arranged in a holder in various ways. The holders bare
all suspended at the same height, the lower water inlet openings lying in different
planes so that the generation of gas from one carbide holder to the other is always
effected according to the quantity of gas consumed. The object of this arrange-
ment is that the whole of the carbide should not at once be acted upon, but be
made use of from time to time and any excessive production of gas be avoided.
Practical experiments have shown that this is the only way of obtaining an
apparatus which is really safe throughout its working.
The highest position of the bell which is duly guided by suitable means must
as a matter of course be limited by an abutment or detent of some kind.
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
claim is:-
1. An acetylene apparatus the distinguishing feature of which is the suspension
vithin the gasometer bell, at the same height of a number of carbide holders
urnished at the sides with water inlet openings, arranged at various heights,
o that one carbide holder after the other is worked in proportion to the consump-
ion and any excessive production of gas avoided.
2. The improved apparatus for generating acetylene gas substantially as
escribed with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 13th day of May 1899
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London. Agents