Improvements in Means and Apparatus for the Combustion of Liquid, Gaseous, or Pulverulent Fuel for Generating Steam or for other Purposes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 11th July, 1887
Complete Accepted, 13th Sept., 1887.
Improvements in Means and Apparatus for the Combustion of
Liquid, Gaseous, or Pulverulent Fuel for Generating Steam or
for other Purposes.
We ARTHUR BRIN of 59 Brompton Crescent in the County of Middlesex Engineer
and Chemist and LÉON QUENTIN BRIN of 7 Rue Gavarni, Paris, in the Republic of
France, Engineer and Chemist do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
--
According to our Invention steam or water in a fine state of division in conjunction
with carbon or hydrocarbon or other liquid gaseous or pulverised fuel and mixed with
a certain quantity of oxygen is projected against a heated hearth or surface where
combustion takes place under most favourable conditions the steam or water being
decomposed and the oxygen and hydrogen resulting from this decomposition being
utilised to the best advantage in combination with the carbon.
We will describe a convenient arrangement of apparatus which we employ in order
to decompose water instantaneously and utilise the resulting oxygen and hydrogen.
The carbon necessary to support combustion may be obtained from petroleum for
example contained in a vessel to the upper part of which steam is supplied in such a
manner as to raise the temperature of the hydrocarbon and force it through capillary
tubes into an ejector orifice or orifices whence the steam and carbon are projected in
the form of a jet or jets against a heated hearth or surface of refractory material
arranged in a suitable inclined or other position.
Another vessel containing oxygen under pressure supplies this gas in regulated
quantities to the mixture of steam and carbon or hydrocarbon escaping from the
vessel herein before described. The steam or water is thereupon decomposed and the
resulting oxygen and hydrogen being ignited and consumed upon the hearth as
aforesaid produce an intense heat which may be utilised for generating steam or other
heating purposes.
1007
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the said Arthur Brin
and Léon Quentin Brin,

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means and Apparatus for the Combustion of
Liquid, Gaseous, or Pulverulent Fuel for Generating Steam or
for other Purposes.
I, ARTHUR BRIN of 59 Brompton Crescent in the County of Middlesex, Engineer
and Chemist, and LÉON QUENTIN BRIN, of 7 Rue Gavarni Paris in the Republic of
France, Engineer and Chemist, 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:-
According to my Invention steam or vapour of water in conjunction with carbon or
Hydrocarbon or other liquid gaseous or pulverised fuel and mixed with the requisite
quantity of Oxygen to effect combustion is projected against a heated hearth or
surface where combustion takes place under most favourable conditions the steam
being decomposed and the oxygen and hydrogen resulting from this decomposition
being utilized to the best advantage in generating heat by their combustion in
combination with the Carbon and Oxygen.
I will describe with reference to the accompanying drawing a convenient arrange-
ment of apparatus for carrying my Invention into effect. The Carbon necessary for
combustion may be obtained from Petroleum for example contained in a vessel A to
the upper part of which steam is supplied through the pipe B in such a manner as to
raise the temperature of the hydrocarbon and force it through a tube or tubes as at C
into an Injector arrangement E whence steam and the Carbon are projected in the
form of a jet or jets against a heated hearth or surface of refractory material arranged
in a suitable inclined or other position as shewn at F.
Another vessel G containing oxygen under pressure supplies this gas through the
pipe H in regulated quantities to the mixture of steam and Carbon or Hydrocarbon
escaping from the vessel A.
The heat generated by the combustion of petroleum in oxygen is so great that the
steam or water vapour is decomposed by it and the resulting oxygen and hydrogen
being ignited and consumed upon the hearth as aforesaid in conjunction with the
other gases produce an intense heat which may be utilized for generating steam or
other heating purposes.
Figure 1 of the drawing represents the application of the Invention to the raising
of heat for generation of steam in a locomotive type of boiler but it is of course not
limited to that purpose.
The arrangement I have illustrated provides for the use of the same steam for
pressing upon the petroleum in the vessel A and for supplying the steam to be used
for combustion with the Hydrocarbon and Oxygen. It passes into the vessel A by
the pipe B and therefrom to the injector by the pipe B³.

page_text: Figure 2 of the drawing shews a suitable construction of the Injector arrangement
wherein the nozzle from the steam pipe is marked b that from the hydrocarbon vessel
is marked c and that from the oxygen vessel is marked h. I may also utilize the heat
of this Injector arrangement and at the same time keep it comparatively cool by
making round it a Cylinder I with pipes and leading thereinto from the feed
water supply and therefrom into the boiler.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is.—
1st. For obtaining heat for generating steam or other purposes the employment of
Oxygen gas supplied and subjected to combustion in conjunction with Carbon or
Hydrocarbon and steam or watery vapour.
2nd. For the obtainment of heat for generating steam or other purpose the employ-
ment of steam or watery vapour with carbon or bydrocarbon and Oxygen gas supplied
and utilized substantially as hereinbefore described.
3rd. The arrangement of apparatus substantially as and for the purpose described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.