Improvements in and connected with Petroleum and like Engines.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th June, 1893--Accepted, 29th July. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Petroleum and like Engines.
JAMES EDWARDES WEYMAN Engineer, Nightingale Road Guildford Surrey do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
My invention has for its object the using of petroleum or other light medium or
heavy hydro carbons by first vaporizing such oils at moderate temperatures and by
using the vapour so obtained with the addition of air as an explosive mixture in the
cylinder of the engine, the regulating the supply of oil to the vaporizing chamber
automatically without the. aid of a pump air pressure or other means requiring
power or mechanism, and for keeping the temperature at which vaporization takes
place at a fixed point.
The means I adopt is equally applicable whether the heat required for vaporizing
the oil is taken from the end or other part of the cylinder or when it is taken
from the exhaust gases, or pipe, by which the exhaust gases are taken away from the
cylinder of the engine.
In the case when the heat is obtained from the end or other part of the cylinder
I have a vessel, called the vaporizing vessel, of comparatively small capacity in
which a certain amount of oil is always present this oil being kept at a uniform
depth by a means described further on, from the end or other part of the cylinder
I have vanes projections or grills and these vanes projections or grills dip into the
oil in the vaporizing vessel the heat from the end or other part of the cylinder is
thus conducted into the oil in the vaporizing vessel in sufficient quantity to cause
vaporization, the vapor afterwards comes in contact with the hotter parts of the
vanes projections or grills and is further heated so as to make it into the best
state for use in the cylinder of the engine, there are other grills or projections
rising into the oil from the bottom and sides of the vaporizing chamber by means
of which heat is conveyed into the oil from the outside of the vessel so that vapour
can be formed from the application of external heat as is required when first starting
the engine.
In the case of using the heat from the exhaust gases I have a similar vessel as
above described in close proximity to or forming part of the exhaust pipe which
conveys the exhaust gases away from the cylinder the vanes projections or grills
conveying the heat from the exhaust gases into the oil in the vaporizing vessel in a
similar manner as in the previous case; in the case of using the exhaust gases, the
vaporizing vessel may be made either to surround or partly surround the exhaust
pipe and may be made in sections connected by taps or openings when one or more
sections can be used according to the requirements of the engine, also running
longitudinally with the exhaust pipe and passing more or less through the vaporizing
vessel, but not open to it, I have passages through which air is drawn by the
suction of the engine when taking in its charge, these passages serving to heat the air
used in the engine and also to prevent the vaporizing vessel from becoming too hot,
the air passing through these passages takes up some of the heat that would other-
wise pass to the vaporizing vessel and helps to keep the latter at the desired
temperature: part of the exhaust pipe the vaporizing chamber or chambers and
the air passages are preferably made in one piece or casting but may be made
separately.
To always keep the proper quantity of oil in the vaporizing vessel I have
connected to it by means of a small pipe and unions a second vessel, this second
vessel acting as a reservoir for the oil and as an automatic feeder, the action being
the same as that in what is known as the Bird fountain, this reservoir which is an
oblong vessel being filled with oil or nearly so, its only outlet is by means of the

page_text: small pipe into the bottom of the vaporizing vessel this outlet being below the oil
level in that vessel so that as the oil is vaporized and the vapour used oil passes
out of the reservoir into the vaporizing chamber maintaining it always at the same
level.
For the ignition of the charge in the engine cylinder a hot tube, an electric
spark or other device may be used but when the heated tube is employed I have a
specially constructed lamp for the purpose.
The engine with which the parts described can be used may be either of the
three or four cycle type and in either case to start the engine the vaporizing chamber
is first heated by a lamp, blow flame, or small coke fire and when sufficiently heated
to make vapour in the vaporizing chamber it is only necessary to turn the Hy wheel
of the engine once or twice and provided the ignition device is in working order
the engine starts and continues to work automatically and the lamp, blow flame, or
fire is taken away.
It will be seen my invention consists of an improved vaporizing chamber with a
certain amount of oil always present, a combination by which the oil is supplied
automatically to the engine as it requires it from a reservoir without the aid of a
pump or other mechamism a combination by which the air used in the engine may
be heated and the temperature of the vaporizing chamber modified and a lamp of
special construction for heating the ignition tube when such a tube is used.
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of August 1892.
JAMES EDWARDES WEYMAN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Petroleum and like Engines.
I, JAMES EDWARDES WEYMAN, of Nightingale Road, Guildford, in the County
of Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 has for its object the using of petroleum or other light, medium, or
heavy hydro-carbons, by first vaporizing such oils at moderate temperatures either
in a separate vaporizing chamber or otherwise and by using the vapor so obtained
with the addition of air, as an explosive mixture in the cylinder of the engine. An
improved apparatus for automatically regulating the supply of oil to the vaporizing
chamber or vessel, without the aid of a pump or air pressure mechanically obtained
by means of power, and for keeping the temperature at which vaporization takes
place at an approximately fixed point.
The means I adopt is equally applicable whether the heat required for vaporizing
the oil is taken from the end or other part of the cylinder, or whether it is taken
from the exhaust gases, or pipes, by which the exhaust gases are conveyed away
from the cylinder of the engine.
In the case where the heat is obtained from the end or other part of the cylinder
I employ a vessel, called the vaporizing vessel, of comparatively small capacity, in
which a certain amount of oil is always present, this oil being kept at an uniform
depth by means hereinafter described. From the end or other part of the cylinder
I provide vanes, projections or gills, and these vanes, projections or gills I so
arrange as to dip into the oil in the vaporizing vessel; the heat from the end or
other part of the cylinder is thus conducted into the oil in the vaporizing vessel, in
sufficient quantity to cause vaporization, the vapor afterwards comes in contact
with the hotter parts of the vanes, projections or gills and is further heated so as
to make it into the best state for use in the cylinder of the engine. I likewise
provide other gills or projections rising into the oil from the bottom and sides of
the vaporizing vessel by means of which heat is conveyed into the oil from the
outside of the vessel so that vapor can be formed from the application of external
heat from a lamp or otherwise as required when first starting the engine.

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In the case of using the heat from the exhaust gases I have a similar vaporizing
vessel as above described in close proximity to or forming part of the exhaust
pipe which conveys the exhaust gases away from the cylinder, the vanes,
projections or gills conveying the heat from the exhaust gases into the oil
this vaporizing vessel in a similar manner as previously described; in
the case of using the exhaust gases the vaporizing vessel may be made either
to surround or partly surround the exhaust pipe and may be made in sections
connected by taps or openings when one or more sections can be used according
to the requirements of the engine, also running longitudinally with the exhaust
pipe and passing more or less through the vaporizing vessel; but not open
to it, I provide passages through which air is drawn by the suction of the
engine when taking in its charge, these passages serving to heat the air used in the
engine and also to prevent the vaporizing vessel from becoming too hot as the air
passing through these passages takes up some of the heat that would otherwise
pass to the vaporizing vessel and helps to keep the latter at the desired
temperature.
Part of the exhaust pipe, the vaporizing chamber or chambers and the air
passages are preferably made in one piece or casting but may be made
separately.
I also provide the means of taking the air required by the engine for
combustion either through the vaporizer or direct as may be required, as for
example, in starting the engine I should take the air direct to the cylinder or
combustion chamber instead of passing it through the pipe leading through the
vaporizer, in this way the heat of the vaporizer may be rapidly got up to the
required temperature and afterwards by diverting the passage of the air through
the pipe leading through the vaporizer, either whole or in part, the temperature of
the vaporizer may be regulated as previously indicated.
In order to keep the proper quantity of oil in the vaporizing vessel I provide a
second vessel or reservoir, hereinafter called the oil reservoir, which I connect to
the vaporizing vessel by means of a small pipe and unions. This oil reservoir I
construct so as to act as an antomatic feeder, the action being the same as that in
the well known Bird fountain, so that when the reservoir is filled or partly filled
with oil the oil flows along the connecting pipe from the bottom of the reservoir
into the vaporizing chamber below the normal level of the oil therein, and by
providing a suitable inlet for the atmospheric air either through the vaporizing
vessel above the level of the oil or through the oil reservoir itself to a suitable
distance below the level of the oil therein, then as the oil is converted into vapor,
in the vaporizing chamber, fresh oil passes out of the reservoir through the
connecting pipe into the vaporizing vessel and the level and quantity of oil is
maintained, a corresponding quantity of air passes through the oil into the
reservoir to make good the loss or in other words to fill up the partial vacuum
which is formed on the withdrawal of the oil from the reservoir and so on until
the oil reservoir is emptied and in this way a constant and regular supply of oil is
automatically provided for the use of the engine.
.
For the ignition of the charge in the engine cylinder a hot tube, an electric
spark or other device may be used but when the heated tube is employed I have a
specially constructed lamp for the purpose.
One form of such lamp comprises an oil container fitted with the ordinary
attachments of a lamp in which a wick is used. The wick may be flat, circular,
single or duplex. The oil container I make to fit practically air tight into a body,
stand or case having in it a small fan or air propeller which is driven at a suitable
speed either by clockwork or by a belt or other mechanism from the engine or
other source. The blast so produced is made to impinge against or circulate
round and near the top of the wick. A little distance above the wick I place a
chimney or vessel having in its bottom a suitable opening or openings to admit the
flame. The lower part of the chimney which surrounds the flame near the wick I
construct of a ring of metallic gauze or other suitable perforated material “and I

page_text: so place this gauze and the chimney that the air to support combustion in the
lamp may be regulated and the intensity of the heat produced by the flame thereby
varied, the gauze likewise acts as a protective shield to the flame. Through this
funnel at a suitable distance above the lamp burner, I place the ignition tube
where it becomes highly heated and serves the purpose for igniting the successive
charges in the combustion chamber of the cylinder of the engine.
I am aware that lamps of somewhat similar construction and in which a portion
of the air to support combustion is propelled by a fan worked by clockwork or
otherwise have been previously constructed and I lay no claim to novelty in this
respect but rather to the application of such a lamp in combination with the
improvements herein described for heating up the ignition tube of a hydro-carbon
motor.
The engine with which the improvements herein described can be used may be
either of the three or four cycle type, and in either case to start the engine the
vaporizing chamber or vessel is first heated by a lamp, blow flame, or small coke
fire, and when sufficiently heated to make vapor in the vaporizing chamber it is
only necessary to turn the fly wheel of the engine once or twice, and provided the
ignition device is in working order the engine starts and continues to work auto-
matically when the lamp, blow flame or fire may be taken away.
It will be seen that my invention consists of an improved vaporizing chamber
or vessel with a certain amount of oil always present. A combination by which
the oil is supplied automatically to the engine as it requires it from a reservoir,
without the aid of a pump or other mechanism. A. combination by which the air
used in the engine may be heated and the temperature of the vaporizing chamber
modified and a lamp of special construction for heating the ignition tube when
such a tube is used.
The nature of my invention will be better understood on reference to the
accompanying three sheets of drawings in which
Fig. 1, (Sheet 1.) represents an end elevation in section of iny improvements as
applied to the end of a cylinder of an oil engine comprising the vaporizing vessel,
with the oil reservoir and automatic regulator, the combustion chamber, lamp and
ignition tube.
Fig. 2, being a plan also in section of the same.
Fig. 3, is an elevation of a funnel employed for filling the oil reservoir.
Fig. 4, is a plan partly in section of my improved vaporizing arrangements as-
applied for utilizing the heat of the exhaust gases shewing two separate vaporizing
vessels with their exhaust connections and vapor pipes,
Fig. 5, being an end elevation of the same shewing one of the vaporizing
chambers in section.
Fig. 6, is a sectional elevation of a vertical vaporizer as applied to the exhaust.
pipe of an oil engine, also shewing an outline arrangement in dotted lines com-
prising a pump, an oil tank supply and overflow pipe sometimes employed in place
of the contrivance h.-illustrated in Figs. 1, and 2, for which however no claim is
made in this Specification.
Fig. 7, (Sheet 2,) is a sectional elevation of a vertical arrangement by means of
which the temperature of the vaporizer may be regulated and at the same time
the air used in the engine may be more or less heated.
Fig. 8, is a sectional plan of the same through the line A. B.
Fig. 9, is an elevation partly in section of a similar arrangement for use in a
horizontal position,
Fig. 10, being a section of the same through the line, C.'D.
Fig. 11, (Sheet 3,) is a sectional clevation of an improved lamp for heating' the
ignition tube.
Fig. 12, is a plan of the same.
The same letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
is the cylinder of the engine.
is the combustion chamber.

page_text: 2, is the wire gauze ring round the bottom of the same.
y, is the outer case containing the fan and clockwork machinery, =.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is,
1. In petroleum and the like hydro-carbon engines the arrangement and com-
bination of parts and appliances comprising an improved vaporizing chamber or
vessel constructed so as to contain a certain amount of oil, which oil is maintained
at an uniform depth and heated by internal or external heat conductors, or by
both as the case may be, the heat being transmitted through the conductors to the
oil either from the combustion chamber or cylinder of the engine, or from the
waste gases of combustion conveyed through exhaust ports, pipes or passages
arranged to pass through or partly through the vaporizing chamber and the heat
through the external conductors being generated from an external lamp or fire, the
last named conductors being more particularly employed for starting the engine.
Such improved vaporizer being constructed so as to form a separate chamber in
the cylinder of the engine or as a separate and independent vessel or vessels placed
at a convenient distance near the cylinder of the engine and provided with the
necessary connections and appurtenances thereto in the manner and for the
purposes substantially as herein described and illustrated in Sheets 1. and 2. of
the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of parts and appliances comprising the improved vaporizing
chamber or vessel described in Claim 1, provided with additional ports, pipes or
passages through which the air to supply combustion in the cylinder of the engine
may be drawn or partly drawn through the said combustion chamber or through
the exhaust ports, pipes or passages previously described in Claim 1 but not open
thereto whereby the air used in the engine may be heated and at the same time
the vaporizing vessel prevented from becoming too hot in the manner and for the
purposes substantially as herein described and illustrated on Sheet 1, and 2, of the
accompanying drawings.

page_text: 3. The application of the parts and appliances comprising the oil reservoir and
automatic feeder, (having the action of the Bird fountain) to my improved
vaporizing chamber or vessel described in Claims 1 and 2 by means of which the
supply of oil is automatically regulated and the level maintained in the said
vaporizing chamber or vessel in the manner and for the purposes substantially as
herein described and illustrated in Figs. 1. and 2, Sheet 1, of the accompanying
drawings.
4. The application of the parts and appliances comprising the specially con-
structed lamp for heating up the ignition tube of a hydro-carbon motor in the
manner and for the purposes substantially as herein described and illustrated in
Figs. 1. and 2, Sheet 1, and Figs. 11 and 12, Sheet 3.
5. In petroleum and the like hydro-carbon engines the combination of an
improved vaporizing chamber, vessel or vessels as described in Claim 1, or as
described in Claim 2, with the oil reservoir and automatic feeder described in
Claim 3, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as herein described and
illustrated.
6. In petroleum and the like hydro carbon engines the combination of an
improved vaporizing chamber, vessel or vessels as described in Claim 1, or as
described in Claim 2, with the oil reservoir and automatic feeder described in
Claim 3, together with the specially constructed lamp for heating up the ignition
tube described in Claim 4, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as
herein described and illustrated.
Dated this 24th day of June 1893.
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: small pipe into the bottom of the vaporizing vessel this outlet being below the oil
level in that vessel so that as the oil is vaporized and the vapour used oil passes
out of the reservoir into the vaporizing chamber maintaining it always at the same
level.
For the ignition of the charge in the engine cylinder a hot tube, an electric
spark or other device may be used but when the heated tube is employed I have a
specially constructed lamp for the purpose.
The engine with which the parts described can be used may be either of the
three or four cycle type and in either case to start the engine the vaporizing chamber
is first heated by a lamp, blow flame, or small coke fire and when sufficiently licated
to make vapour in the vaporizing chamber it is only necessary to turn the fly wheel
of the engine once or twice and provided the ignition device is in working order
the engine starts and continues to work automatically and the lamp, blow flame, or
fire is taken away.
It will be seen my invention consists of an improved vaporizing chamber with a
certain amount of oil always present, a combination by which the oil is supplied
automatically to the engine as it requires it from a reservoir without the aid of a
pump or other mechanism a combination by which the air used in the engine may
be heated and the temperature of the vaporizing chamber modified and a lamp of
special construction for heating the ignition tube when such a tube is used.
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of August 1892.
JAMES EDWARDES WEYMAN.
.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Petroleum and like Engines.
I, JAMES EDWARDES WEYMAN, of Nightingale Road, Guildford, in the County
of Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 has for its object the using of petroleum or other light, medium, or
heavy hydro-carbons, by first vaporizing such oils at moderate temperatures either
in a separate vaporizing chamber or otherwise and by using the vapor so obtained
with the addition of air, as an explosive mixture in the cylinder of the engine. An
improved apparatus for automatically regulating the supply of oil to the vaporizing
chamber or vessel, without the aid of a pump or air pressure mechanically obtained
by means of power, and for keeping the temperature at which vaporization takes
place at an approximately fixed point.
The means 1 adopt is equally applicable whether the heat required for vaporizing
the oil is taken from the end or other part of the cylinder, or whether it is taken
from the exhaust gases, or pipes, by which the exhaust gases are conveyed away
from the cylinder of the engine.
In the case where the heat is obtained from the end or other part of the cylinder
1 employ a vessel, called the vaporizing vessel, of comparatively small capacity, in
which a certain amount of oil is always present, this oil being kept at an uniform
depth by means hereinafter described. From the end or other part of the cylinder
1 provide vanes,, projections or gills, and these vanes, projections or gills Iso
arrange as to dip into the oil in the vaporizing vessel; the heat from the end-or
other part of the cylinder is thus conducted into the oil in the vaporizing vessel, in
sufficient quantity to cause vaporization, the vapor afterwards comes in contact
with the hotter parts of the vanes, projections or gills and is further heated so as
to make it into the best state for use in the cylinder of the engine. I likewise
provide other gills or projections rising into the oil from the bottom and sides of
the vaporizing vessel by means of which heat is conveyed into the oil from the
outside of the vessel so that vapor can be formed from the application of external
heat from a lamp or otherwise as required when first starting the engine.
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page_text: Date of Application, 27th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th June, 1893-Accepted, 29th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Petroleum and like Engines.
JAMES EDWARDES WEYMAN Engineer, Nightingale Road Guildford Surrey do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object the using of petroleum or other light medium or
heavy hydro carbons by first vaporizing such cils at moderate temperatures and by
using the vapour so obtained with the addition of air as an explosive mixture in the
cylinder of the engine, the regulating the supply of oil to the vaporizing chamber
automatically without the aid of a pump air pressure or other means requiring
power or mechanism, and for keeping the temperature at which vaporization takes
place at a fixed point.
The means I adopt is equally applicable whether the heat required for vaporizing
the oil is taken from the end or other part of the cylinder or when it is taken
from the exhaust gases, or pipe, by which the exhaust gases are taken away from the
cylinder of the engine.
In the case when the heat is obtained from the end or other part of the cylinder
I have a vessel, called the vaporizing vessel, of comparatively small capacity in
which a certain amount of oil is always present this oil being kept at a uniform
depth by a means described further on, from the end or other part of the cylinder
I have vanes projections or grills and these vanes projections or grills dip into the
oil in the vaporizing vessel the heat from the end or other part of the cylinder is
thus conducted into the oil in the vaporizing vessel in sufficient quantity to cause
vaporization, the vapor afterwards comes in contact with the hotter parts of the
vanes projections or grills and is further heated so as to make it into the best
state for use in the cylinder of the engine, there are other grills or projections
rising into the oil from the bottom and sides of the vaporizing chamber by means
of which heat is conveyed into the oil from the outside of the vessel so that vapour
can be formed from the application of external heat as is required when first starting
the engine.
In the case of using the heat from the exhaust gases I have a similar vessel as
above described in close proximity to or forming part of the exhaust pipe which
conveys the exhaust gases away from the cylinder the vanes projections or grills
conveying the heat from the exhaust gases into the oil in the vaporizing vessel in a
similar manner as in the previous case; in the case of using the exhaust gases, the
vaporizing vessel may be made either to surround or partly surround the exhaust
pipe and may be made in sections connected by taps or openings when one or more
sections can be used according to the requirements of the engine, also running
longitudinally with the exhaust pipe and passing more or less through the vaporizing
vessel, but not open to it, I have passages through which air is drawn by the
suction of the engine when taking in its charge, these passages serving to heat the air
used in the engine and also to prevent the vaporizing vessel from becoming too hot,
the air passing through these passages takes up some of the heat that would other-
wise pass to the vaporizing vessel and helps to keep the latter at the desired
temperature part of the exhaust pipe the vaporizing chamber or chambers and
the air passages are preferably made in one piece or casting but may be made
separately:
To always keep the proper quantity of oil in the vaporizing vessel I have
connected to it by means of a small pipe and unions a second vessel, this second
vessel acting as a reservoir for the oil and as an automatic feeder, the action being
the same as that in what is known as the Bird fountain, this reservoir which is an
oblong vessel being filled with oil or nearly so, its only outlet is by means of the

page_text: In the case of using the heat from the exhaust gases I have a similar vaporizing.
vessel as above described in close proximity to or forming part of the exhaust
pipe which conveys the exhaust gases away from the cylinder, the vanes,
projections or gills conveying the heat from the exhaust gases into the oil
in this vaporizing vessel in a similar manner as previously described; iü
the case of using the exhaust gases the vaporizing vessel may be made either
to surround or partly surround the exhaust pipe and may be made in sections
connected by taps or openings when one or more sectious can be used according
to the requirements of the engine, also running longitudinally with the exhaust
pipe and passing more or less through the vaporizing vessel, but not open
to it, I provide passages through which air is drawn by the suction of the
engine when taking in its charge, these passages serving to heat the air used in the
engine and also to prevent the vaporizing vessel from becoming too hot as the air
passing through these passages takes up some of the heat that would otherwise
pass to the vaporizing vessel and helps to keep the latter at the desired
temperature.
Part of the exhaust pipe, the vaporizing chamber or chambers and the air
passages are preferably made in one piece or casting but may be made
separately.
*.*
I also provide the means of taking the air required by the engine for
combustion either through the vaporizer or direct as may be required, as for
example, in starting the engine I should take the air direct to the cylinder or
combustion chamber instead of passing it through the pipe leading through the
vaporizer, in this way the heat of the vaporizer may be rapidly got up to the
required temperature and afterwards by diverting the passage of the air through
the pipe leading through the vaporizer, either whole or in part, the temperature of
the vaporizer may be regulated as previously indicated.
In order to keep the proper quantity of oil in the vaporizing vessel I provide a
second vessel or reservoir, hereinafter called the oil reservoir, which I connect to
the vaporizing vessel by means of a small pipe and unions. This oil reservoir I
construct so as to act as an automatic feeder, the action being the same as that in
the well known Bird fountain, so that when the reservoir is filled or partly filled
with oil the oil flows along the connecting pipe from the bottom of the reservoir
into the vaporizing chamber below the normal level of the oil therein, and by
providing a suitable inlet for the atmospheric air either through the vaporizing
vessel above the level of the oil or through the oil reservoir itself to a suitable
distance below the level of the oil therein, then as the oil is converted into vapor,
in the vaporizing chamber, fresh oil passes out of the reservoir through the
connecting pipe into tlie vaporizing vessel and the level and quantity of oil is
maintained, a corresponding quantity of air passes through the oil into the
reservoir to make good the loss or in other words to fill up the partial vacuum
which is formed on the withdrawal of the oil from the reservoir and so on until
the oil reservoir is emptied and in this way a constant and regular supply of oil is
automatically provided for the use of the engine.
For the ignition of the charge in the engine cylinder a hot tube, an electric
spark or other device may be used but when the heated tube is employed I have a
specially constructed lamp for the purpose.
One form of such lamp comprises an oil container fitted with the ordinary
attachments of a lamp in which a wick is used. The wick may be flat, circular,
single or duplex. The oil container I make to fit practically air tight into a body,
stand or case having in it a small fan or air propeller which is driven at a suitable
speed either by clockwork or by a belt or other mechanism from the engine or
other source. The blast so produced is made to impinge against or circulate
round and near the top of the wick. A little distance above the wick I place a
chimney or vessel having in its bottom a suitable opening or openings to admit the
flame. The lower part of the chimney which surrounds the flame near the wick I
construct of a ring of metallic gauze or other suitable perforated material and I

page_text: so place this gauze and the chimney that the air to support combustion in the
lamp may be regulated and the intensity of the heat produced by the flame thereby
varied, the gauze likewise acts as a protective shield to the flame. Through this
funnel at a suitable distance above the lamp burner, I place the ignition tube
where it becomes highly heated and serves the purpose for igniting the successive
charges in the combustion chamber of the cylinder of the engine.
I am aware that lamps of somewhat similar construction and in which a portion
of the air to support combustion is propelled by a fan worked by clockwork or
otherwise have been previously constructed and I lay no claim to novelty in this
respect but rather to the application of such a lamp in combination with the
improvements herein described for heating up the ignition tube of a hydro-carbon
motor.
The engine with which the improvements herein described can be used may be
either of the three or four cycle type, and in either case to start the engine the
vaporizing chamber or vessel is first heated by a lamp, blow flame, or small coke
fire, and when sufficiently heated to make vapor in the vaporizing chamber it is
only necessary to turn the fly wheel of the engine once or twice, and provided the
ignition device is in working order the engine starts and continues to work auto-
matically when the lamp, blow flame or fire may be taken away.
It will be seen that my invention consists of an improved vaporizing chamber
or vessel with a certain amount of oil always present. A combination by which
the oil is supplied automatically to the engine as it requires it from a reservoir,
without the aid of a pump or other mechanism. A combination by which the air
used, in the engine may be heated and the temperature of the vaporizing chamber
modified and a lamp of special construction for heating the ignition tube when
such a tube is used.
The nature of my invention will be better understood on reference to the
accompanying three sheets of drawings in which
Fig. 1, (Sheet 1.) represents an end elevation in section of my improvements as
applied to the end of a cylinder of an oil engine comprising the vaporizing vessel,
with the oil reservoir and automatic regulator, the combustion chamber, lamp and
ignition tube.
Fig. 2, being a plan also in section of the same.
Fig. 3, is an elevation of a funnel employed for filling the oil reservoir.
Fig. 4, is a plan partly in section of my improved vaporizing arrangements as
applied for utilizing the heat of the exhaust gases shewing two separate vaporizing
vessels with their exhaust connections and vapor pipes,
Fig. 5, being an end elevation of the same shewing one of the vaporizing
chambers in section.
Fig. 6, is a sectional elevation of a vertical vaporizer as applied to the exhaust
pipe of an oil engine, also shewing an outline arrangement in dotted lines com-
prising a pump, an oil tank supply and overflow pipe sometimes employed in place
of the contrivance h.-illustrated in Figs. 1, and 2, for which however no claim is
made in this Specification.
Fig. 7, (Sheet 2,) is a sectional elevation of a vertical arrangement by means of
which the temperature of the vaporizer may be regulated and at the same time
the air used in the engine may be more or less heated.
Fig. 8, is a sectional plan of the same through the line A. B.
Fig. 9, is an elevation partly in section of a similar arrangement for use in a
horizontal position,
Fig. 10, being a section of the same through the line, C. D.
Fig. 11, (Sheet 3,) is a sectional clevation of an improved lamp for heating the
ignition tube.
Fig. 12, is a plan of the same.
The same letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
a,
is the cylinder of the engine.
is the combustion chamber

page_text: c, is the wire gauze ring round the bottom of the same.
y, is the outer case containing the fan-and clockwork machinery, ==
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is,
1. In petroleum and the like hydro-carbon engines the arrangement and com-
bination of parts and appliances comprising an improved vaporizing chamber or
vessel constructed so as to contain a certain amount of oil, which oil is maintained
at an uniform depth and heated by internal or external heat conductors, or by
both as the case may be, the heat being transmitted through the conductors to the
oil either from the combustion chamber or cylinder of the engine, or from the
waste gases of combustion conveyed through exhaust ports, pipes or passages
arranged to pass through or partly through the vaporizing chamber and the heat
through the external conductors being generated from an external lamp or fire, the
last named conductors being more particularly employed for starting the engine.
Such improved vaporizer being constructed so as to form a separate chamber in
the cylinder of the engine or as a separate and independent vessel or vessels placed
at a convenient distance near the cylinder of the engine and provided with the
necessary connections and appurtenances thereto in the manner and for the
purposes substantially as herein described and illustrated in Sheets 1. and 2. of
the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of parts and appliances comprising the improved vaporizing
chamber or vessel described in Claim 1, provided with additional ports, pipes or
passages through which the air to supply combustion in the cylinder of the engine
may be drawn or partly drawn through the said combustion chamber or through
the exhaust ports, pipes or passages previously described in Claim 1 but not open
thereto whereby the air used in the engine may be heated and at the same time
the vaporizing vessel prevented from becoming toc hot in the manner and for the
purposes substantially as herein described and illustrated on Sheet 1, and 2, of the
accompanying drawings.

page_text: 3. The application of the parts and appliances comprising the oil reservoir and
automatic feeder, (having the action of the Bird fountain) to my improved
vaporizing chamber or vessel described in Claims 1 and 2 by means of which the
supply of oil is automatically regulated and the level maintained in the said
vaporizing chamber or vessel in the manner and for the purposes substantially as
herein described and illustrated in Figs. 1. and 2, Sheet 1, of the accompanying
drawings.
4. The application of the parts and appliances comprising the specially con-
structed lamp for heating up the ignition tube of a hydro-carbon motor in the
manner and for the purposes substantially as herein described and illustrated in
Figs. 1. and 2, Sheet 1, and Figs. 11 and 12, Sheet 3.
5. In petroleum and the like hydro-carbon engines the combination of an
improved vaporizing chamber, vessel or vessels as described in Claim 1, or as
described in Claim 2, with the oil reservoir and automatic feeder described in
Claim 3, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as herein described and
illustrated.
6. In petroleum and the like hydro carbon engines the combination of an
improved vaporizing chamber, vessel or vessels as described in Claim 1, or as
described in Claim 2, with the oil reservoir and automatic feeder described in
Claim 3, together with the specially constructed lamp for heating up the ignition
tube described in Claim 4, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as
herein described and illustrated.
Dated this 24th day of June 1893
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicant.