Improvements in Apparatus for Enriching Gas.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 29th June, 1895-Accepted, 3rd. Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Enriching Gas.
I, WALTER KEMP, of Tankerton, St. Albans Road, Kingston-on-Thames, in
the County of Surrey, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to apparatus for enriching gas by mingling with it the
vapour of liquid hydrocarbons. For this purpose, I provide a casing, which may
be in the form of a vertical cylinder, divided by an annular partition into two
compartments, a central compartment aud an annular compartment surrounding it.
In this compartment I place a pipe coil through which the liquid hydrocarbon is
passed while the compartment is kept charged with steam. The hydrocarbon thus
converted into vapour issues from the coil into a chamber at the bottom of the
central compartment into which chamber gas is admitted to mingle with the vapour.
The mixed gas and hydrocarbon vapour ascend a number of tubes exposed to the
heat of the steam which is admitted through holes in the partition to the space
around the tubes.
The mixture of gas thus heated with the vapour, after flowing through the
tubes, passes through several wire gauze or perforated metal screens, thus becoming
thoroughly mingled.
The supply of hydrocarbon may be regulated by a cock or valve, and, should
there be excess, such of the liquid as is not vaporised is caught by the screens and
returns to the chamber below whence it can be run off.
Dated this 29th day of September 1894.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Apparatus for Enriching Gas.
I, WALTER KEMP, of Tankerton, St. Albans Road, Kingston-on-Thames, in
the County of Surrey, Commercial Traveller, 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 :-
My invention relates to apparatus for enriching gas by mingling with it the
vapour of liquid hydrocarbons. For this purpose I construct apparatus such as is
shewn in vertical section by the accompanying drawing.
I provide a casing A which may be in the form of a vertical cylinder, divided
by an annular partition B into two compartments, a central compartment and an
annular compartment surrounding it. In this latter compartment I place a pipe
coil C through which the liquid hydrocarbon is passed while the compartment is
kept charged with steam. The hydrocarbon thus converted into vapour issues from
the coil into a chamber D at the bottom of the central compartment into which
chamber gas is admitted by a pipe G against a deflector H and mingles with the
vapour. The mixed gas and hydrocarbon vapour ascend a number of tubes E
exposed to the heat of the steam which is admitted through holes in the partition B
to the space around the tubes E.

page_text: The mixture of gas thus heated with the vapour, after flowing through the
tubes E passes through several wire gauze or perforated metal screens F thus
becoming thoroughly mingled and the mixture issuing at K.
The supply of hydrocarbon may be regulated by a cock or valve, and, should
there be excess, snch of the liquid as is not vaporised is caught by the screens and
returns to the chamber below whence it can be run off by a pipe M.
The water of condensation of the steam passes away by a pipe N.
The apparatus may be simplified by dispensing with the partition B, the coil C
and the tubes E being in the single steam chamber.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of: this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed,. I declare that what I
claiin is :-
Apparatus for enriching gas, constructed and operating substantially'as´herein
described and illustrated by the drawing.
Dated this 100th 1.... CT1002
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.