Year: 1885

page_text: I, JOHN CLOUGH WILLIAMS-ELLIS of Gayton Rectory Blisworth in the County
of Northampton, Clerk in Holy Orders, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the generation and mixing of steam and heated gases
or either of them for the purposes of working motors. To this end the invention
consists in forcing a suitable mixture of air and gas into a closed boiler or into a
cylinder where it is exploded supplied with water where it is ignited and by the
combustion which ensues the water is turned into steam and becomes commingled
with the heated gases so generated, and these mixed gases are used for the same
purpose as steam to drive motors &°. In the case of the explosion in the cylinder
a convenient piston is operated therein and forces air into the boiler.
The improvements can be performed by constructing a closed boiler consisting of
a suitable chamber for generating steam, surrounded by water, the air and gas
being supplied to the said boiler by an ordinary force pump which drives air mixed
with any convenient inflammable gas into contact with any means of producing
explosion when combustion ensues-and in the case of the explosive cylinder
arrangement I prefer to use an ordinary or other gas engine which may be placed
within the closed boiler or jacketted so to speak by it or the said gas engine may
be placed apart from the boiler and connected with it by pipes, and operate by
explosion as in the ordinary way and thereby drive the exploded gases into the
said or other boiler.

page_text: I, JOHN CLOUGH WILLIAMS-ELLIS, of Gayton Rectory, Blisworth, in the County
of Northampton, Clerk in Holy Orders, 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 relates to the generation and mixing of steam and heated gases
or either of them for working motors and other purposes-To this end the invention
consists in forcing a suitable mixture of air and gas into a closed boiler (or into a
cylinder where it is exploded or ignited) supplied with water so that by the
combustion which ensues the water is turned into steam and becomes commingled
with the heated gases so generated, and these mixed gases are used for the same
purpose as steam to drive motors &c. Referring to the accompanying drawing-
The explosive mixture enters the cylinder A through the pipe a when the piston B
is in its furthest position-On entering the cylinder A, the mixture is driven by
the piston B through the valve D into the second cylinder C where it is exploded
for instance by an electric spark or any other convenient device as at present used
in gas engines The exploded gases force their way through the valve E into the
receptacle or boiler G while the explosive force also pushes the piston F outward
which brings the first piston B over the opening of the pipe a and prevents more
gas from entering-pressing the unexploded mixture in the cylinder A into the
cylinder C where it is exploded and forced into the receptacle G and so on.
By this means a continually increased pressure of exploded gas is obtained in the
receptacle G. This is augmented by the steam produced by the heat of the
explosions on the water which covers the cylinder Cand forms a jacket thereto.
I do not contine myself to the arrangement shown in the drawing-but may
arrange the cylinders and boiler G in any convenient manner-I may also use a
separate gas engine for exploding the gases and force them into a boiler connecting
also the water jacket of the exploding cylinder with the boiler.
The improvements can also be performed by constructing a closed boiler
consisting of a suitable chamber for generating steam surrounded by water the air
and gas being supplied to the said boiler by an ordinary force pump, which drives
air mixed with any convenient inflammable gas into contact with any means of
producing explosion when combustion ensues.
The gas for the explosive mixture may be formed from benzoline or any other
inflammable gas.

page_text: 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:
For obtaining compressed gases for various purposes-the apparatus consisting
of a chamber into which an inflammable mixture of air and gas may be forced and
there burnt or exploded, said chamber being surrounded by a water jacket, both the
water jacket and chamber being in connection with a boiler or receptacle for
receiving the products of combustion and the steam generated in the water jacket.
Dated this 15th day of September 1886.