Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Use in the Generation of Acetylene Gas.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 24th May, 1899-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1899
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Use in the Generation
of Acetylene Gas.
I, PHILIPPE CHARLES SAULE, Manufacturer, of Tulle (Correze), Avenue Victor
Hugo 36, France, 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: ―
The present invention relates to an acetylene gas generator having an inclined
shoot for the supply of carbide and a device for regulating the supply and also
relates to a specially constructed gas generating vessel. In the accompanying
drawing of a preferred form of construction of the generator,
Figure 1 is a front view,
Figure 2 rear view, and
Figure 3 shows the apparatus in partial section.
The gas generating vessel 7 is shaped like a bent or inclined tube or funnel
and can be turned round on a pivot & for the purpose of cleaning it with ease,
the upper opening of the generator being arranged below a carbide shoot. In
the shoot, e, arranged preferably in the form of a spiral around the gas bell c,
are placed balls or suitably shaped blocks of carbide or hollow balls of metal, or
other material, which can be opened, and the wall or material of which is per-
forated. These hollow balls are filled with carbide and closed. A fork a fixed
to the bell centers, at the average height of the bell c, between the ball which
is next to the outlet closed by a bolt or catch 7 and the next one, while when the
bell sinks still lower, a rod b, also fixed to it, will disengage the catch 7, and
thereby allow the first ball to enter the gas generator, the fork a keeping back
the other balls in such a way that only one ball at a time, can enter the gas
generator vessel which is partly filled with water. The gas generated passes
up into the bell c behind the guide plate m and below the covering plate p
through the connecting tube u. The gas generator vessel is also provided at its
lower end for the purpose of cleaning with a plug or cap o which can be secured
to the vessel in an air-tight manner by means of a screw or the like. In order
to withdraw the balls from the water in case of a too rapid a generation of gas
a rakes having several teeth or bars is provided in the generator which can be
actuated by means of a chain or chains r and drawn towards the upper end of
the generator vessel g, by which means the carbide balls can be drawn out of the
water. The gas is prevented, as it is generated, from escaping at the upper end
of the generator g, by the baffle plate m, which causes it to pass out throught the
tube u.
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
I claim is:-
1. An acetylene gas generator comprising a gas generating vessel, preferably
nivotted provided with an under opening, and a lower opening capable of being

page_text: closed in an air-tight manner, in combination with an inclined shoot for the
reception of carbide balls or holders and means for delivering the balls into the
generating vessel one at a time by the movement of the gas bell substantially
as described.
2. In an acetylene gas generator of the kind described an inclined shoot pro-
vided with a catch secured to a stationary part of the apparatus and a fork
device such as a, b secured to the bell for effecting the release of the carbide
charges one at a time substantially as described.
3. The complete acetylene gas generating apparatus substantially as described
or illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of May 1899.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.