Carburetting Apparatus.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Mar., 1897-Accepted, 15th May, 1897
Carburetting Apparatus.
PROSPER HÉRENG, of 113 Rue Royale, Brussels, Belgium, Custom-house Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is an apparatus for the carburetting of hydrogen,
produced by the process of chemical decomposition of water by means of the reaction
of an acid on a metal, or by any other process, as well as for the carburation of
common coal or illuminating gas.
The reservoir, which may be cylindrical or of any other suitable form, is made of
copper, iron, aluminium, lead or other metal and may be covered outside with cement.
It is surmounted by a lid, fastened by means of bolts and winged screws to the collar
of the reservoir. This lid is furnished with a tubulure, having a screw-threaded
capsule for the introduction of the liquid, with a tubulure having a tap as an outlet
for the carburetted gas, and with an opening for the introduction of a pipe for the
passage of the gas, it being also provided with a tap. This pipe planges to near the
bottom of the reservoir and is terminated by a recipient which may be cylindrical or
of any other suitable form, perforated in all its walls.
The reservoir is provided laterally with a level-indicator and, in its lower part, with
a discharge-tap to regulate the level of the carburetting body.
The apparatus is filled through the tubulure with a hydro-carbure liquid, such as
naphtha, benzine or the like,-in fact with any substance rich in carbon. Hydrogen
gas or ordinary coal-gas intended for illuminating, or other industrial purposes, is
conveyed into the apparatus by the introduction-pipe where it meets with the
carburetting body; it descends to the recipient and escapes into the reservoir where
it passes through the whole quantity of the carburetting body to escape by way of the
tubulure.
This apparatus effects a complete carburation, methodical and rational, by the com-
bination of the introduction-pipe and the recipient with the tap, which enables the
level of the carburetting body to be regulated.
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L. DUVINAGE,
Agent for Applicant.
I, PROSPER HÉRENG of 113 Rue Royale Brussels, Belgium, Custom-house Agent,
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 :-
The object of my invention is an apparatus for the carburetting of hydrogen,
produced by the process of chemical decomposition of water by means of the reaction

page_text: of an acid on a metal, or by any other process, as well as for the carburation of
common coal or illuminating gas.
The accompanying drawings represent my apparatus in elevation Fig. 1, in vertical
section (Fig. 2), and in plan-view (Fig. 3). Fig. 4 shows the plunger.
The reservoir A, which may be cylindrical or of any other suitable form, is made
of copper, iron, aluminium lead or other metal and may be covered outside with
⚫cement. It is surmounted by a lid A', fastened by means of bolts and winged
screws G to the flange K. This lid is furnished with a tubulure D, having a screw-
threaded capsule D', for the introduction of the liquid, with a tubulure having a
tap H, as an outlet for the carburetted gas, and with an opening for the intro-
duction of the pipe or plunger B for the passage of the gas, it being also provided
with a tap H. This pipe plunges to near the bottom of the reservoir A and is
terminated by a recipient B' which may be cylindrical or of any other suitable form,
perforated in all its walls.
The reservoir is provided laterally with a level-indicator E and, in its lower part,
with a discharge-tap F to regulate the level of the carburetting body.
The apparatus is filled through the tubulure D with a hydro-carbure liquid, such as
naphtha, benzine or the like in fact with any substance rich in carbon.
Hydrogen gas or ordinary coal-gas intended for illuminating, or other industrial
purposes, is conveyed into the apparatus by the pipe B where it meets with the
carburetting body; it descends to the recipient B and escapes into the reservoir A
where it passes through the carburetting body to escape by way of the tubulure C.
This apparatus effects a complete carburation, methodical and rational, by the
combination of the tube B and the recipient B', with a tap F, which enables the level
of the carburetting body to be regulated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
An apparatus for the rational carburation of hydrogen or of ordinary coal-gas,
distinguished by the combination of a tube terminating in a perforated recipient
and plunging to near the bottom of a reservoir containing a carburetting body
with a discharge-tap to regulate the level of the said carburetting body, the whole
as described in the above specification and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 1st day of March 1897.
L. DUVINAGE,
Agent for Applicant.