Improvements in or relating to the Carburation of Gas.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 9th Jan., 1900-Accepted, 24th Feb., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Carburation of Gas.
A communication from G. PEETERS, Engineer, of Brussels, in the Kingdom of
Belgium.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 111, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
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The present invention relates to the carburation of gas for lighting purposes,
with a view of considerably increasing its light emitting power, and consists
chiefly in the manner of forming the carburettor as will hereinafter be described.
The carburettor consists of a recipient or vessel, closed on all sides and of
convenient shape and capacity, the whole or part of which is filled with a
porous or spongy material, such as, for instance, wood, cotton, oakum, netting,
asbestos, sponge, ground cork, pumice-stone, tufa or other minerals, and the
like, in a solid or pounded state, and in the latter case either alone or mixed
with one or more absorbent or filamentous substances, so as to form in the vessel
a filtering medium in a state of density or compression, permitting the passage
of the gas entering the vessel at the pressure desired for the purpose.
The vessel thus arranged with a filtering medium is then interposed in the
pipe system of a source of gas from oil, petroleum or other hydrocarbons, or of
any other gas answering the purpose of the invention, in such a manner that
the whole of the filtering medium is traversed by the gas passing from the said
source during such a length of time as is required for the saturation of the said
filtering medium with the carburetting material.
Such saturation having been obtained, one, or more of these carburettors is
connected at a convenient point, to the supply conduits of the lighting apparatus,
or arranged in the apparatus itself, so that the gas passes through it. During
this passage the gas intended for combustion, tends on the one hand to maintain
the carburettor, by giving up to it its own vaporous particles while, on the other
hand, becoming itself carburetted at the expense of the former deposits, so that
the gas arrives at the burner in a condition to produce a very white and brilliant
flame of dazzling light, approaching, as regards effect, the light of an acetylene
flame; acetylene itself burning when treated in the same way with still greater
brilliancy then usual, and without the least smokiness.
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BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Carburation of Gas.
A communication from G. PEETERS, Engineer, of Brussels, in the Kingdom of
Belgium.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 111, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
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page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is a new or improved carburetting process for
gas used for lighting, for the purpose of considerably increasing the lighting
power, the essential feature of the invention being the new means of constitut-
ing the carburettors as hereinafter described.
The carburettor consists of a closed receiver or recipient, the capacity of which
is wholly or partially filled with any spongy or porous substance whatever as
for instance wool, cotton, tow, asbestos, sponge, ground cork, pumice stone or
other minerals or analogous substances either solid or pounded and, in the
latter case, either alone or mixed with any of the spongy or filaceous substances
given as examples, so as to form in the receiver, a kind of filtering medium, the
density or compression of which, will allow the passage of a gas introduced into
the receiver or recipient under the necessary pressure.
The receiver or recipient, thus provided with its filtering medium, is placed
in the conduit of a feeder of coal gas, rock oil gas or other hydrocarbon gas or
even any other gas suitable for the object of the invention so that the filtering
medium may be passed through by the feeding gas during the time necessary
for the saturation of the said medium by its carburetting principles.
This saturation being obtained, one, or more, of these carburettors is inserted,
in any convenient place, in the conduit feeding the lighting apparatus, or so
disposed in those apparatus themselves, as to be passed through by the gas in-
tended to light them up.
In this passage, the feeding gas supplies, on the one hand the carburettor,
by leaving it its vapourised particles, but on the other hand, becomes carburetted
in passing through the foremost deposits, it consequently reaches the burners
in a state adapted to produce a very white brilliant flame, which gives a very
strong light resembling the brightness of the flame of acetylene gas, which gas
itself, if treated by this process, shines with more than ordinary brightness,
that is without the least fuliginosity.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said in-
vention, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:-
In a carburetting process of gases used for lighting inserting a carburettor
or carburettors in the gas conduit, said carburettor consisting of a suitable
receiver or recipient enclosing a filaceous, fibrous, spongy or porous medium
passed through beforehand by a suitable gas until it is charged with the car-
buretting principles of the gas, then passing the feeding gas of the lighting
apparatus through the said carburettor the said gas keeping up the saturation
of the medium on the one hand and becoming carburetted on the other hand sub-
stantially as described.
Deted this 9th day of January 1900.
BOULT, WADE & KILBURN,
Agents for the Applicant.