Improvements in Oil Engines and the like Hydro-carbon Motors.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Mar., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Oil Engines and the like Hydro-carbon Motors.
We, GEORGE HITCHCOCк, of 27, Commercial Road, Guildford and JAMES
ARTHUR DRAKE, of New Place, Woodbridge Road, Guildford, in the County of
Surrey, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of our said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OIL ENGINES AND THE LIKE HYDRO-CARBON MOTORS"
to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to improve the method and appliances for heating
the ignition tubes for oil and the like hydro-carbon motors, and as the principle of
our invention is the same, irrespective of the class of motor to which it is applied,
a description of it as applied to an oil engine will suffice. In such an engine we
effect these objects first, by utilizing the main piston of the engine as an air pump
in connection with the blow pipe of the lamp, secondly, in the application of a
small piston and spring working in a cylinder or a holder sealed by mercury or
other suitable fluid to act as a fluctuator and thirdly, the application of an auxiliary
or secondary ignition tube situated in a position where it may be heated by the
same lamp and at the same time as the vaporizer is heated before starting.
By utilizing the cylinder of the engine as an air pump we are enabled to dispense
with a separate air pump or fan so that the motion of the piston projects a blast
of air through the blow pipe of the lamp causing the flame to be blown against
the ignition tube or tubes.
To obviate the fluctuations and to give one continuous blast upon the flame of
the lamp, we employ a piston as already stated working in a cylinder of suitable
size and capacity and actuated and compensated by a spring or weight to keep the
blast acting upon the flame of the lamp of uniform strength, or in some cases we
employ an air vessel sealed by mercury or other suitable fluid.
To start the engine we employ a secondary or auxiliary ignition tube, also
previously referred to, which we place in a suitable position so that the lamp
employed to heat the vaporizer before starting shall also sufficiently heat this
auxiliary or secondary tube.
In some cases we employ one tube only by placing it in such a position that the
blow lamp from the cylinder and the lamp which heats the vaporizer for starting
shall both act upon one and the same tube.
Dated this 21st day of June 1892.
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Oil Engines and the like Hydro-carbon Motors.
We, GEORGE HITCHCOCк, of 27 Commercial Road, Guildford and JAMES
ARTHUR DRAKE of New Place, Woodbridge Road, Guildford in the County
of Surrey, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of our said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OIL ENGINES AND THE LIKE HYDRO-CARBON MOTORS"
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of our invention is to improve the method and appliances for heating
the ignition tubes for oil and the like hydro-carbon motors and as the principle of
our invention is the same, irrespective of the class of motor to which it is applied
a description of it as applied to a petroleum oil engine will suffice. In such an
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page_text: engine we effect these objects by the application of an auxiliary or secondary
ignition tube situated in a position where it may be heated by the same lamp and
at the same time as the vaporizer is heated before starting.
To start the engine we employ the secondary or auxiliary ignition tube which we
place in a suitable position so that the lamp employed to heat the vaporizer before
starting shall also sufficiently heat this auxiliary or secondary tube.
In some cases we employ one tube only by placing it either vertically or
horizontally in such a position that the blow lamp and the lamp which heats the
vaporizer for starting shall both act upon one and the same tube."
The nature of our invention will be better understood on reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings in which,
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engine we effect these objects by the application of an auxiliary or secondary
ignition tube situated in a position where it may be heated by the same lamp and
at the same time as the vaporizer is heated before starting.
To start the engine we employ the secondary or auxiliary ignition tube which we
place in a suitable position so that the lamp employed to heat the vaporizer before
starting shall also sufficiently heat this auxiliary or secondary tube.
In some cases we employ one tube only by placing it either vertically or
horizontally in such a position that the blow lamp and the lamp which heats the
vaporizer for starting shall both act upon one and the same tube.
The nature of our invention will be better understood on reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings in which,
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of the raporizer.
Fig. 2. a side view or elevation.
Fig. 3. a side view partly in section.
The same letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
a. is the vaporizer which is attached to the end of the cylinder of the engine.
b. is the lamp for heating up both the vaporizer and the secondary or auxiliary
ignition tube.
c. being the wick tube of the same.
d. the secondary or auxiliary ignition tube.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.
1. In hydro-carbon motors known as oil engines the arrangement and combination
of parts and appliances by means of which an auxiliary or secondary ignition tube
is so placed in position that it may be heated by the same lamp and at the same
time as the vaporizer is heated before starting the engine, in the manner and for
the purposes substantially as herein described and illustrated.
2. In hydro-carbon motors known as oil engines the arrangement and combination
of parts and appliances by means of which when only one ignition tube is employed,
such tube is heated by both the lamp used for the ordinary working of the engine
and also by the lamp used to heat up the vaporizer before starting the engine, in
the manner and for the purposes substantially as herein described and illustrated.
Dated this 21st day of March 1893.
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicants.