An Improvement in Engines Worked by Gas or Combustible Vapour.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 24th Dec., 1896-Accepted, 6th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Engines Worked by Gas or Combustible
Vapour.
We, HERBERT JOHN DOWSING, of 35 Queen Victoria Street, in the City
of London, Electrical Engineer, and HENRY SHEEHY KEATING, of Queen's Gate
Mansions, Queen's Gate, Kensington in the County of London, Barrister at Law,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In engines worked by gas or combustible vapour, as they are usually worked, the
cylinder charge consists of combustible gas or vapour mixed with ordinary air and
the combustion, especially when oil vapour is employed as the combustible, is more
or less imperfect, owing to want of sufficient oxygen in contact with the burning
matter.
The object of our invention is to ensure more perfect combustion and thereby
obtain increased power from a given charge of combustible.
For this purpose, we combine with the engine an ozonising apparatus of any
suitable known kind, and we pass through this the air which is to form part of the
combustible charge, thereby converting its oxygen or a portion thereof into ozone,.
which acts more effectually in combustion than oxygen itself does.
Dated this 25th day of March 1896.
ABEL & IMRAY,
.Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Engines Worked by Gas or Combustible.
Vapour.
We, HERBERT JOHN DOWSING, of 35 Queen Victoria Street, in the City
of London, Electrical Engineer, and HENRY SHEEHY KEATING, of Queen's Gate
Mansions, Queen's Gate, Kensington, in the County of London, Barrister at Law,
do bereby 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:-
In engines worked by gas or combustible vapour, as they are usually worked, the
cylinder charge consists of combustible gas or vapour mixed with ordinary air, and
the combustion, especially when oil vapour is employed as the combustible, is
more or less imperfect, owing to want of sufficient oxygen in contact with the
burning matter.
The object of our invention is to ensure more perfect combustion and thereby
obtain increased power from a given charge of combustible.
For this purpose, we combine with the engine an ozonising apparatus of any
suitable known kind such as that described in Andreoli's Specifications Nos. 174265

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charge, thereby converting its oxygen or a portion thereof into ozone, which acts
more effectually in combustion than oxygen itself does.
As, in ozonising air, considerable heat is absorbed, we prefer to heat the air
either before or after it is ozonised, for which purpose it may be passed through
the cylinder jacket or through or along tubes or other extended surfaces heated by
the exhaust products of combustion from the cylinder. By ozonising the air
in contact with the cylinder, the heat of the cylinder may to some extent be
reduced.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
In combination with an engine worked by combustible gas or vapour mixed with
air, an ozonising apparatus through which the air is passed before its mixture with
the gas or vapour, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 24th dar of December 1896
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.