Improvements in Apparatus for Gasifying Petroleum, Spirit, and analogous Liquids.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 1st Feb., 1896-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by FELIX HEINRICH ASCHNER, of Berlin, in the Empire
of Germany, Engineer.]
Improvements in Apparatus for Gasifying Petroleum, Spirit, and
analogous Liquids.
I, DAVID YOUNG, Patent Agent, of the Firm of D. Young & Co. of 11 & 12
Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to apparatus for gasifying petroleum, spirit and analogous
liquids and comprises various novel features hereinafter mentioned.
The improved apparatus is constructed with a gasifying chamber into which
the petroleum, spirit or other liquid is drawn or sucked up by means of wicks,
and from which the gas flows into a collecting chamber, whence it is conducted
as required to the burner or burners for utilizing it.
In carrying the said invention into practice, I provide a gasifying chamber into
which the liquid is drawn or sucked up by means of wicks, and to heat the said
gasifying chamber I arrange a suitable flame below the same.
To carry off the gas I provide perforations in the gasifying chamber through
which perforations the gas is permitted to pass into a second chamber situated
above the gasifying chamber and in which the gas is collected. From this
collecting chamber the gas passes upward through a channel or pipe divided into
two arms or branches, each of which is controlled by means of a suitable valve or
cock, and one of which arms or branches conducts gas to the burner of a lamp to be
used for illuminating purposes, or to any other suitable apparatus as may be
required, whilst the other arm or branch conducts a suitable quantity of the gas
to the burner producing the heating flame beneath the gasifying chamber.
On the arm or branch of the said channel or pipe leading from the collecting
chamber to the lamp, or on each of the arms or branches of the said channel or pipe,
I prefer to place a safety-valve.
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D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Gasifying Petroleum, Spirit, and
analogous Liquids.
I, DAVID YOUNG, Patent, Agent, of the Firm of D. Young & Co., of 11 & 12
Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., 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:-
This invention relates to apparatus for gasifying petroleum, spirit, and other
combustible fluids, in which the fluid to be gasified is drawn or sucked up into a
gasifying chamber. and is first gasified by means of a temporarily applied heating

page_text: flame, after which a part of the gas so obtained is used for producing a heating flame
which effects the gasification of the fluid during the subsequent operation of the
apparatus.
The improved apparatus as shown in vertical central section in the accompanying
drawing comprises a gasifying chamber a; a collecting chamber b; a block or
top-piece containing valves and passages for controlling the flow of the gas from
one part of the apparatus to another; a heating-up cup d, and a heating burner e
the nozzle o whereof extends upwards beneath the gasifying chamber a.
The gasifying chamber a is in communication with the reservoir A, containing
the fluid to be gasified, by means of a wick g extending through the tube f, and
with the collecting chamber b through a disc or diaphragm h provided with
perforations h'. The collecting chamber is closed at its upper part by the block
or top-piece c, in which is arranged an angular passage i. This passage which
opens at one end into the collecting chamber b extends to about the middle of
the block c and divides at into two branches, of which one rises upwards to
the burner-jet or nozzle k and the other m oxtends downwards and is connected
to the tube n of the gasifying burner e. This tube
collecting chamber b and through the gasifying chamber a.
burner is the cup d which serves for the reception of the
effecting the preliminary heating of the gasifying chamber.
The dividing point of the passage i is of such shape that it forms a seat for
a conical valve p which is mounted on a movable stem 7 extending into the
block c; the said stem, by means of a head provided thereon, can be moved into
or out of the passage i to close or open the same. The passage m leading down
to the gasifying burner can also be shut off or opened as desired by means of a
valve s arranged in a similar manner.
extends through the
Beneath the gasifying
combustible fluid for
Between the opening of the passage leading to the burner-nozzle k and the
said nozzle, is provided a safety-valve which consists of a tubet extending out to
the exterior of the apparatus and there pressed or squeezed together at the end.
The improved gasifying apparatus operates in the following manner, viz.:-As.
soon as the combustible fluid poured into the cup d is ignited, the fluid drawn or
sucked up from the reservoir A into the chamber a by the wick g is gasified. The
gas generated rises through the holes in the disc h into the chamber b and collects
there. As soon as a sufficient quantity of gas is available, the hitherto closed.
valves p and are opened so that the gas rising in the passage i flows, on the.
one hand, through the passage into the burner-nozzle k, and, on the other hand,
through the passage m to the gasifying burner e, o. The gas issuing from the
burner-nozzle is then ignited to serve for lighting or for heating as may be
desired, while the gas issuing from the gasifying burner is ignited by the warming--
up flame and effects the gasification of the fluid during the subsequent operation
of the apparatus, which, by reason of the above described arrangement, continues
until either of the valves por s is closed.
By the interposition of the collecting chamber 6 between the gasifying-chamber a
and the two supply-passages for the burners, the flame produced is maintained in
an uniform state of combustion which can be controlled by means of the valve s.
A hissing at the safety-valve t gives warning that the valves must be moved in
to reduce the supply of gas or vapour to the gasifying burner.
It is obvious that the tube n connecting the passage m with the gasifying burner
can, if desired, be passed around the two chambers 6 and a instead of through
them as shown, and that the construction of the improved apparatus can be
somewhat further modified if desired without departing from the nature of my said
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what. I claim is:-
First. A gasifying apparatus for combustible fluids, in which a. collecting chamber.

page_text: is interposed between the gasifying chamber and the burner-nozzle, into which
collecting chamber opens a passage controlled by a suitable valve, and provided
with one branch leading to the burner-nozzle and with another branch, suitably
controlled, leading to the gasifying burner.
Second. A gasifying apparatus for combustible fluids, in which a tube or passage
is provided between the burner-nozzle and the passage for the supply of gas
thereto, which tube or passage extends to the outside of the apparatus and is there
pressed or squeezed together thus forming a safety-valve which gives warning to
reduce the supply of gas to the gasifying burner, substantially as described.
Third. The improved apparatus constructed substantially as described with
reference to the accompanying drawing and operating as, and for the purposes,
above specified.
Dated this 1st day of February 1896
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant