APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBONS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, EDWARD CLINTON BURGESS of Islington in the county of Middlesex do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for "APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION OF LIQUID
HYDROCARBONS " to be as follows:-
My invention relates to apparatus for effecting combustion of liquid hydro-
carbons particularly those known as heavy oils, which are not volatile at ordinary
temperatures.
Within a furnace chamber, I fix a hemispherical retort with its flat side lowest..
To this retort, I admit water by a pipe leading to its lower part from a cistern or
supply under pressure, this pipe having a stop-cock or valve to regulate the feed.
From the upper part of the retort I lead a steam pipe down to a certain distance
centrally under the bottom of the retort, where it terminates in an injector nozzle.
To this injector I lead a pipe from a reservoir of heavy oil, which is maintained
under pressure equivalent to that of the feed water by a communication from the
water feed to the lowest part of the oil reservoir. The oil pipe has a stop-cock or
valve to regulate its supply. The action of the apparatus is as follows:-The
retort and pipes being in the first place heated by a temporary fire or flame kindled
in the furnace chamber, the water and oil feed cocks or valves are opened..
The water flowing into the retort becomes converted into steam, and this,
issuing by the injector nozzle while oil is flowing to the nozzle, there is produced
a jet of mixed oil and steam, which is dashed against the bottom of the retort, and
farther admixed with air rising through the furnace chamber, so that there is vivid
and complete combustion, the flame, besides beating the retort and oil, steam and
water pipes, being led into flues to heat a boiler or for other heating purposes.
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ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant,
28, Southampton Buildings,
London, W.C.

page_text: I, EDWARD CLINTON BURGESS, of Islington in the county of Middlesex, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION OF
LIQUID HYDROCARBONS" 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 apparatus for combustion of liquid hydrocarbons,
particularly those known as heavy oils, which are not. volatile at ordinary
temperatures, so as to produce a flame available for heating boilers or furnaces.
The accompanying drawing represents a section partly in elevation of apparatus
according to my invention.
Within a fire chamber, which may be brickwork, A, or might be the fire box or
flue of a boiler, I suspend a retort R of approximately hemispherical shape with its
bottom somewhat rounded so as to be thickest in its middle. From a water
cistern I connect a pipe W which after passing in several convolutions around the
retort enters the retort near the bottom. From the upper part of the retort I lead
a pipe S to an injector nozzle J, and from a cistern containing the oil or liquid
bydrocarbon I lead a pipe O to the annular space K surrounding the nozzle J,
I provide under the retort a shield P.
The action of the apparatus is as follows.
The retort R is in the first place heated by burning under it any convenient
combustible, such as a mass of shavings or fibrous materials soaked in oil, and then
a small quantity of water is admitted by the pipe W and of oil or hydrocarbon
liquid by the pipe O. The water is converted into steam and this passes by the
pipe S to the nozzle J whence it issues as a jet carrying with it through the
mouth L the oil or hydrocarbon liquid which is broken into spray and dashed
against the bottom of the retort. The jet also causes a current of air to enter by
the tubular mouth T of the shield, and, the mixture of the spray, with the steam
and air being ignited, à flame is produced which heats the retort and the pipes.
Shortly after the commencement of the action, when the retort and pipes have
become sufficiently heated, the supply of water and of oil or hydrocarbon liquid can
be considerably increased by opening more or less cocks or valves in the supply
pipes W and O, and thus a large and powerful flame can be maintained, available
for heating boilers or furnaces.
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
Apparatus for combustion of liquid hydrocarbons, consisting of a retort and
water, steam and oil pipes, arranged and operating substantially as herein
described.
L
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant,
28, Southampton Buildings,
London, W.C.