Improvements in Hydrocarbon Vapour or Gas-light Apparatus.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 25th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 14th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hydrocarbon Vapour or Gas-light Apparatus.
I, LUDWIG GÖHMANN, of Braunschweig, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German
Empire, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to an apparatus for producing and burning gas from hydro-
carbon and similar oils and consists essentially in a steam jacketed oil reservoir
from which issues upwards a tube leading to the jet. From the steam jacket issues
likewise a tube, conducting steam to a chamber surrounding the burning flame,
whence the superheated steam is conducted by another tube into the oil reservoir
while a branch tube causes a small jet of steam to enter a channel surrounding the
upper part of the tube coming from the oil reservoir, the two opening simultaneously
in the burner.
The apparatus works by leading steam from any ordinary steam generator into
the steam jacket, whereby the oil in reservoir becomes heated, and will shortly
cause vapors to rise to the burner so that a flame can be ignited. Steam is now
carried through the upward tube into the chamber surrounding the flame and
thence, as described, partly into the oil reservoir and partly into the burner,
whereby the flame becomes much intensified.
London. 24th February 1890.
LUDWIG GÖHMANN.
Per C. R. Bonne & Co.,
41, Eastcheap, Registered Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hydrocarbon Vapour or Gas-light Apparatus.
I, LUDWIG GÖHMANN, of Brunswick, Germany, Engineer, 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 an apparatus for producing and burning gas from hydro-
carbon and similar oils and the apparatus according to my invention is shewn in
the accompanying drawings, and consists of a closed vessel c, provided with steam
jacket &, the former containing oil, paraffine or other more or less volatile compound.
Steam can be let into the jacket in the ordinary way from steam supply pipe a,
while m is a tap provided for the disposal of condense water.
From the oil cistern c issues a tube 1, provided with cock h, and ending in a
double jacketed tube i which is conveniently shaped at its end to act as a burner in
the manner hereinafter explained.
The action of the apparatus is as follows: Steam having been turned into steam
jacket the oil contained in vessel c becomes heated and therefore throws off
vapours which rise through tube 1, passing, when cock his opened, into the double
jacketed tube i and when light is applied at k the vapours will burn like gas.
The cock on tube x may now be opened, allowing steam to enter chamber e
which will have become heated by the flame burning in chamber k. The steam
becomes consequently superheated in chamber e and as such enters tube and
thence, through, when the cock is open, into the jacket surrounding tube i, issuing
at k and there mixing with the oil vapours, the result being great intensification of
the flame.
Any surplus amount of superheated steam in tube z is sometimes permitted to
enter the oil reservoir, serving to further heat same.

page_text: Suitable arrangements are of course provided for filling oil on the oil reservoir c,
as well as for cleansing it out.
Having now particularly described and a. ertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The apparatus for burning hydrocarbons constructed and arranged substantially
as described and shewn in the drawings.
Dated this 25th day of November 1890.
C. R. BONNE & Co.
41, Eastcheap, E.C., Authorized Patent and Trade Mark Agents.