Improvements in Apparatus for the Production of Acetylene Gas.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1897.
Complete Specification Left, 27th July, 1898-Accepted, 28th Oct., 1898
Improvements in Apparatus for the Production of Acetylene Gas.
I, LOUIS DE RAVEL, Engineer, of 27, Rue des Fabres, Marseille, in the Republic
of France, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention for improvements in apparatus for the production of acetylene gas
has for its object to provide an automatic and unexplodable apparatus of this class,
and comprises essentially a distributor, a gasogene, a lime tank or container and
a gasometer.
The distributor is formed of an hermetically closed vessel, disposed upon an
automatic transporter contained in a box in which a receiver is mounted to oscillate
on a transverse shaft by means of lever mechanism actuated by pins on the end of
a band roller. An endless band is arranged to travel under the receiver on rollers
which are always turned in the same direction by ratchet and pawl mechanism
actuated by lever mechanism from the bell of the gasometer, and carries from the
receiver to the gasogene the carburet which falls on the endless band through a
small hole in the receiver.
The bell of the gasometer is provided at its top with a valve for the exhaust of
air, and a tube for the outlet of the gas is placed in the bell and passes from the
bottom to the burners.
The gasogene is in communication with the transporter box and has a bell shaped
bottom part enclosed in an outer vessel having a waste pipe, and fixed concentri-
cally within the bell are two vessels one inside the other, and finally in the central
vessel is a tank for receiving the carburet falling from the band of the transporter.
The two outer vessels of the gasogene and the tank are in communication with a
lime tank by means of pipes with cocks. The lime tank is provided with openings
for cleaning, and the admission of air, and with a safety tube. Water is admitted
to the gasogene by a tube which projects through the upper part of the bell and
the gas is carried away to the gasometer by a conduit connected to the top of the
gasogene.
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Jof October 1807
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for the Production of Acetylene Gas.
I, LOUIS DE RAVEL, Engineer, of 27, Rue des Fabres, Marseille, in the Republic
of 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:-
This invention for improvements in apparatus for the production of acetylene gas

page_text: has for its object to provide an automatic and unexplodable apparatus of this class,
and comprises essentially a distributor, a gasogene, a lime tank or container and
a gasometer.
The distributor is formed of an hermetically closed vessel, disposed upon an
automatic transporter contained in a box in which a receiver is mounted to oscillate
on a transverse shaft by means of lever mechanism actuated by pins on the end of
a band roller. An endless band is arranged to travel under the receiver on rollers
which are always turned in the same direction by ratchet and pawl, mechanism
actuated by lever mechanism from the bell of the gasometer, and carries from the
receiver to the gasogene the carburet which falls on the endless band through a
small hole in the receiver.
The bell of the gasometer is provided at its top with a valve for the exhaust of
air, and a tube for the outlet of the gas is placed in the bell and passes from the
bottom to the burners.
The gasogene is in communication with the transporter box and has a bell shaped
bottom part enclosed in an outer vessel having a waste pipe, and fixed concentri-
cally within the bell are two vessels one inside the other, and finally in the central
vessel is a tank for receiving the carburet falling from the band of the transporter.
This tank is in communication with a lime tank by means of pipes with cocks.
The lime tank is provided with openings for cleaning, and the admission of air,
and with a safety tube. Water is admitted to the gasogene by a tube which pro-
jects through the upper part of the bell and the gas is carried away to the gasometer
by a conduit connected to the top of the gasogene.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of the gasogeno
and of the gasometer. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation showing the transporter and
distributor. Fig. 3 is a plan of the same.
The distributor comprises a hopper A hermetically closed at A¹ disposed upon an
automatic distributor-transporter shut in a box B. In the box B and beneath the
hopper a receiver B¹ is mounted to oscillate on a transverse shaft b, being actuated
by a cross-bar with perpendicular arm 2 oscillating in 63 as will be explained
further. Under the receiver B¹ is arranged an endless band X made of an appro-
priate substance, and carried by two rollers or cylinders CC. The shaft c which
carries the cylinder C is provided, at the outside of the case B, with a pinion D,
gearing into a toothed wheel D¹ with pawl d, which causes it to rotate in the
direction shown by the arrow. (Fig. 1.)
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The pinion D, which is also rotated in the direction shown by its arrow (Fig. 1)
rotates the internal cylinder C in the same direction so as to bring from the receiver
to the gasogene, the carburet which will have fallen through the opening
the band X. The fall of the carburet on to the band is insured by the oscillations
communicated to the receiver by the pins e fixed at the extremities of the cylinder C
and which have for their object to raise and lower successively the oscillating
arms 2 of the cross-bar 61 before-mentioned. The pawl d is maintained in contact
with the wheel D¹ by a spring d¹.
The travel of the transporter and the oscillations of the receiver are effected by
a rising and falling lever E with a fork El pivoted on the axle of the wheel D
and actuating the wheel D¹ at each descent through the pawl d.
The lever E is jointed at E2 and is raised by the bell F of the gasometer F
through a projection and lowered with it by reason of its own weight when the
bell is lowered and no longer supports it, however, to further insure the descent
of the lever with the bell, a tappet 12 on the rod F³ is arranged to come against the
lever in case of its failure to act under the force of gravity alone.
The bell F is provided at its top with a valve f for the exhaust of air. A tube f
for the outlet of the gas, is placed in the bell and passes under the bottom thereof to
the burners.
As hereinbefore stated, the carburet falls from the receiver on to the endless
band X; from this band the carburet falls into the gasogene, which is surmounted
by hopper G having free communication with the box B. The bottom of the

page_text: opper is in communication with a fixed bell G¹ integral with an exterior vessel H
with a waste-pine t. Arranged concentrically within the exterior vessel H are two
ther vessels I and I', the vessel I¹ being higher than I. Finally in the centre of
he central vessel 11 is disposed a tank K for receiving the carburet falling from
the transporter.
The tank K is in communication with a lime tank L by means of pipes with
cocks jk. The lime tank is besides provided with a cork for the admission of
air at land of a man hole for the cleaning of the tank; a safety tube m completes
the lime tank.
At the upper part of the fixed bell G¹ and above the central vessel I' is fixed a
tube with cock ŕ for the inlet of water which it directly pours into this vessel at
the time of the charging.
At the top of the part G is a conduit M with cock M for the passage of the
gas from the gasogene to the gasometer already described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. An automatic and unexplodable apparatus for the production of acetylene
gas, characterized by the combination of a hopper and of an oscillating receiver
with a distributor-transporter with endless band always worked in the same direc-
tion automatically by the descent of the bell of the gasometer, through a lever
with pawl and toothed gearing substantially as described and illustrated in the
drawings.
2. The combination of a distributor, as above claimed with a gasogene formed
5 of a hopper, of three concentrical vessels and of a central tank, the central tank
being in communication with a lime tank substantially as described and illus-
trated in the drawings.
3. The combination of an automatic distributor, of a gasogene and of a lime
tank, with a gasometer of which the bell works the lever of the distributor at
every descent substantially as described and illustrated on the drawings.
9741 day of July 1898
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.