Improvements in Lighting and Heating Apparatus Using Liquid Combustible.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 18th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 17th Mar., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lighting and Heating Apparatus Using Liquid
Combustible.
I, WALTHER GLITSCH, of No. 1, Rennweg, Zurich, in the Republic of Switzer-
land, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention relates to an improved apparatus for supplying Bunsen
burners for illuminating and heating purposes with liquid fuel, in which capillary
tubes are employed as conductors for the purpose of causing the fuel to burn
uniformly and to avoid a fluctuating pressure in the gasifying chamber of the
burner, and consequently pulsations of the flame and danger of explosion.
In other systems employing capillary tubes the use of pressure regulators is
necessary, in order to supply the burner arranged at varying heights with liquid
fuel at constant pressure. This necessity arises from the fluctuating pressure
which is produced in the capillary tubes and burners by the varying level of
the liquid fuel in the container. If the level sinks, then the pressure diminishes
and the burner is imperfectly supplied; if the level is raised, then there is too
much pressure and the flow of fuel is too abundant.
In order to correct this fault, and at the same time also to render the use of
the expensive pressure regulators unnecessary, the present invention provides a
distributor for the liquid fuel.
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This distributor consists of a hollow body of any convenient shape,
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the fuel container and
other hand with a separate capillary tube conducting to each lighting or
heating burner. The distributor contains a fixed quantity proportioned to the
number of lighting and heating apparatuses connected therewith. The gasifying
chamber of the burner has also a fixed capacity which is adapted to the capacity
of the distributor in such a manner that during the use of the apparatus a pro-
portionate pressure is attained in the distributor, and in the gasifying space of
the burner.
The distributor can be connected in any preferred manner with the fuel con-
tainer. but in any case it must be removed from the influence of the column of
liquid in the fuel container. The distributor is filled from the fuel container.
The liquid in the distributor undergoes no variation of level so long as the fuel
container is not completely emptied. In consequence of this the distributor
obviates any possible influence which could be exercised on the burners by
fluctuating pressure resulting from the varying level in the container, and causes
the said burners to be supplied with liquid fuel of uniform quantity and pressure.
1800

page_text: Improvements in Lighting and Heating Apparatus Using Liquid
Combustible.
I, WALTHER GLITSCH, of No. 1, Rennweg, Zurich, in the Republic of Switzer-
land, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what man-
ner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:—
The object of the present invention is the construction of a system of
distribution of liquid hydrocarbons for the purpose of heating or illuminating
uses and such system provides means of distributing the said hydrocarbons
through an ordinary set of pipes 9 the sanie being supplied from a tank or reservoir
through a distributor and thence through capillary tubes to the heating or to the
illuminating appliance, as the case may be.
The distributor constitutes a link of the whole system and acts as an inter-
mediary between the reservoir and the capillary tubes, its purpose being to make
the flow of the liquid hydrocarbons, and consequently the flow of the gases result-
ing therefrom, independent of the variations of the level of the liquid in the
reservoir, as also of the different levels on which the heating or the illuminating
appliances may happen to be placed.
In the accompanying drawings:-
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Figure 1 is a general view of the distribution system.
Figure 2 is a partly sectional side elevation of the distributor.
Figure 3 is a sectional end elevation of the same.
The distributorf is composed of a hollow part or body of either a cylindrical
or of a rectangular section, and the same is divided into a set of chambers or
compartments p, Figure 2, there being provided, at the under portion of the par-
titions, small apertures which allow the liquid to flow from one compartment to
the other so that all the compartments are always kept full of the feeding
liquid, viz. hydrocarbons. The number of compartments of this distributing
vessel corresponds to that of the capillary tubes by means of which the liquid
hydrocarbons are carried to the several levels on which it is intended to use the
same in the heating or illuminating appliances.
Each of the compartments, and consequently each of the capillary tubes is
provided with a screw-peg o, Fig. 2 or similar adjusting device, the screw-pegs or
similar devices being independent of each other.
The purpose of the distributor is thus to still further reduce the irregular
speed of flow at the heating appliance, the same having already been checked
considerably by the use of the capillary tubes which are conveying the liquid
hydrocarbons to the heating or to the illuminating appliances, of which a few
are shewn in the drawings.
The reservoir c may be provided with an electric bell arrangement which may
be worked by means of a float L for the purpose of indicating the highest and the
lowest level-stages of the fluid, when the bell m will ring and the level can be
replenished.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
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1. The use and the construction of a system of distribution of liquid hydro-
carbons by means of a set of capillary tubes the number of which is made to corre-
spond to the number of levels on which the said hydrocarbons are to be made use

page_text: 2. In a system of distribution as described and claimed in the previous claim,
the use and construction of a distributing vessel, substantially as described, the
said distributor being subdivided into a set of compartments the number of
which corresponds to the number of capillary tubes used for conveying the
hydrocarbons from the distributor to the heating or to the illuminating appliances
the whole substantially as and for the purpose set forth and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
3. In an appliance or system of distribution as claimed in the two previous
claims the use of a set of screw-pegs or similar devices the number of which
corresponds to the number of compartments of the distributing-vessel. the whole
substantially as described and for the purpose set forth in the specification and
as shewn diagrammatically in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 10th day of December 2000.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of London, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham.