Improvements in Apparatus for Producing Gas or Vapour from Hydro-carbons, and for Utilizing Gas or Vapour for Lighting or Heating and for Igniting Gas.
Year: 1887

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Producing Gas or Vapour from
Hydro-carbons, and for Utilizing Gas or Vapour for Lighting
or Heating and for Igniting Gas.
I, JAMES A. MARSH of Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, 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:-
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My invention relates to consuming and utilization of hydro-carbons-and it is
necessary with stoves or burners which manufacture their own gas to first have a
supply tank in which the fluid is placed. This may be of any well known form, but
in practice it is best to have one in which the filling place is upon its side, necessitating
the laying it down to fill, and when attached by a swivel joint, as shown in drawings, and
tank reaches a point just below the level of the burners the fluid runs away from burner,
causing them to go out when lit, thus making it impossible to fill tank when burners
are lit. When tank is in elevated position and filled with fluid the valve controlling
the duct to cup beneath the burner is opened and a portion of the fluid filling the cup.
After closing valve this fluid is lit, the heat thus starting burner to vaporize, after
which it automatically makes its own gas. Then by outlets connected with vaporizing
chamber controlled by needle valves the gas issues into open end of tubes carrying
with gas a proportion of air, producing blue flames all well known in United States of
America.
The new combination of parts in my burners and stoves is an independent duct to
drip-cup, that a controlling valve closed avoids the dependence upon needle valves to
make gasoline tight, and avoids when cold of user opening wrong valve to fill drip
cup for initial starting. The utilization of heat of vaporizing burner after being used
for cooking conveying it to oven for warming or baking purposes, then to chimney if
desired. The initial starting of side, burners from a centre burner without filling
their drip cups.
Burner for gas having air inlets to convey heated air to centre of
combustion. The automatic relighting of burners by a tube so placed that a portion
gas from unlit burners enters tube and with the air within tube makes an explosive
compound which lit by burner at end of tube causes a flash of flame to pass through
tube lighting the unlit burner.
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page_text: Figure 3-under side view of perforated cone.
Figure 4-front elevation of burner.
Figure 5 top or plan view of burner with perforated cone removed.
Figure 6 cross section on line z, z Figure 2.
Figure 7 vertical section of oven and stove top.
Figure 8 transverse vertical section of oven.
Figure 9 detached view burner underneath oven showing lighter tube therewith.
Figure 10 cross section line x, x Figure 9.
Figure 11 side elevation partly in section of two burners, showing lighting tube in
connection therewith.
Figure 12 gas chandelier showing application of lighting tube.
Figure 13 view in rear perspective of three independent burners.
Figure 14 plan view of three burner gas stove.
Figure 15 vertical section of gas stove.
In the drawings P is the supply pipe leading from any desired form of supply tank
to the burner F. H is stand pipe of burner F connecting with supply pipe P;
connected with stand pipe H is a duct h¹ controlled by valve H'. Also connected
with stand pipe H is a duct h² controlled by a valve ³. Leading from duct h² is a
duct which has its open end toward drip cup h³. The duct h¹ connects from stand
pipe H to a retort or vaporizing chamber G subdivided into the chambers g' and g².
Leading from chamber g² is a duct g³ which connects with a bottom cross pipe of and
serves to convey gas or fluid to the needle jet orifice f¹. Immediately above and at
the proper distance to admit air is an induction tube leading into cone F which is
constructed with a perforated bottom f³ and a tube f* susceptible of allowing
induction tube and the under part of top or cone F opposite to retort G and on a
plane with it is half of a disc G2 at the outer edge of which is an opening C which
permits a vertical pipe C to be passed through to a point permitting the flames issuing
from cone F to ignite any gas coming through pipe C. At an angle to pipe C is a
pipe c¹ which leads to a burner of any form D. In Figure 7 the pipe c connecting
with pipe C is shown with its open end opposite the issue jets of gas from cone D
placed as shown in Figure 7. When the lower burner D is unlit and gas issuing
therefrom into pipe c¹ and then through pipe C to the lit burner F the gas is ignited,
the flames following back to burner through these pipes to burner D igniting same.
In Figure 9 at the point where the pipe c¹ crosses the pipe E a valve is placed
controlling a duct ct leading from tube E into lighting tube c¹. In this form it is not
necessary to place open end c² of tube c¹ opposite the issuing jets in burner D but may
be placed so that flames issuing from burner D would ignite the gas issuing into
pipe c from pipe E through duct c and out of open end of c' carrying the flame through
pipe c' and pipe Cup to burner K igniting the gas issueing from cone F.
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the event burner D was unlit and burner K lit the reverse would occur. In Figure 11
G is a small pipe entering the commingling chamber of a burner and projecting into
the lighting tube c¹ so that when gas is turned into the burner a small proportion is
projected through pipe G into and near the centre of the lighting tube facilitating its
action of automatic lighting.
In the application to gas chandelier, Figure 12 it will be noticed that the ends of
lighting tube are placed so that issuing jets of gas from burner partly enter ends of
tubes c; and to carry flame from below up, the large pipe has at its centre an open
connection controlled by an independent valve to supply of gas. (3³ Figure 13 shows
heating and lighting tube to independent gasoline burner. This tube if it is desired
simply to create and maintain a constant flame at the open end of pipe for initial
starting the valve which controls gas to burner should be open full allowing a full
flow of gas which will pass through pipe c' to be lit at the open end c² projecting a

page_text: flame against the other burner. In Figure 14 to show the application of the lighting
tube to a three burner gas stove it will be observed that two pipes are used between
each burner, one having its end turned down toward issuing gas the other straight.
This is done because it is more effective to have the pipes in duplicate. Figure 15
shows a cross section view of two gas burners showing lighting tube in connection
with improved gas burner. It consists of an inverted cone B divided into two parts
by a perforated cone, forming at base of cone B a container for the commingled air
and gas brought in through tube A, the upper part of cone B becoming a combustion
chamber. The air ducts D bring heated air into centre of combustion chamber, upper
half of B. In operation the gas as it enters through nozzle by the well known
manner entrains air with it and at top of cone, and within cone B the combustion
takes place, air is drawn through pipes D into about the centre of this combustion
chamber, this air getting its heat while passing through the pipes D and the automatic
lighting is performed through pipes c¹ in same manner as heretofore explained.
It will be observed that the oven has an open connection with a flue underneath
the top of the stove for the purpose of utilizing the heat from the burner (after
serving the purpose for cooking) in either baking or keeping oven warm. In the
gas burners Figures 14 and 15 it will be noticed that independent air ducts are
conveyed into about the centre of combustion chamber, air being heated in its
passage, thus furnishing heated air to central parts of flame, producing a better
combustion than in ordinary forms. It will also be noticed that a perforated cone is
thrown across combustion chamber, acting as a fire stop and preventing the igniting
of the gas within the induction tube and making a solid flame burner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
First The combination of two or more burners with a lighting tube to conduct
ignited gas from one burner to the other.
Second-The combination with two or more gas burners, provided with openings
for the escape of the gas, of a conduit between the burners, having its ends open that
issuing gas may enter saine substantially as described.
Third-In an apparatus having vapor burners, the combination therewith of a
conduit provided with air inlets and having its ends placed in close proximity to the
burners, whereby ignited vapour or gas from one burner is communicated to another
burner through said conduit, substantially as described.
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Fourth In a vapour burner stove, the combination of two or more vapor burners
with a lighting tube which has its ends to approach near enough to the sides of the
burners to catch the escaping gas or vapor, substantially as described.
Fifth The combination with two vapor burners, the burners being on a different
elevation to one side of each other, of a communicating pipe between them, whereby
ignited gas may be carried from one to the other.
Sixth-The combination with two vapour burners upon different elevations and to
one side of each other of a communicating pipe, having the gas inlet within it, whereby
ignited gas may be carried from one to the other.
Seventh-The combination with two vapour burners of a pipe entering one burner,
and the open end projecting into a communicating pipe, whereby ignited gas may be
carried from one burner to the other.
Eighth In a gas chandelier or gas stove of two or more burners the combination
therewith of a lighting tube to conduct the vapor or gas from one burner to the
other.
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Ninth In a gas stove the combination there with of a tube having one of its
ends near enough to catch escaping gas and the other end open to the outer air,
whereby the gas can be lit at its outer end, commnunicating the flame through the
tube.
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Tenth The combination with a supply pipe of a vapour burner, a controlling
valve to a retort which has one or more outlets to vapor burners and an independent
duct from supply pipe to drip cup.

page_text: Eleventh-The combination with a retort having two or more chambers a con-
trolling valve of a single duct to same and one or more outlets to vapour burners.
Twelfth In a vapor stove burner the combination with a retort a cone having a
perforated bottom.
Thirteenth-The combination with a vapor stove having a flue to convey heat to
an oven having its side in open connection with the flue, whereby the heat from the
burners is conveyed within the oven.
Fourteenth The combination with a vapor stove having a flue to convey heat
to an oven, having its sides in open connection with the flue, and a burner beneath
the oven.
Fifteenth In a gas burner a commingling chamber and a combustion chamber,
having air tubes extending through said chamber from the outside, whereby air is
conveyed to the combustion chamber, with an air and gas induction tube, substantially
as set forth.
Sixteenth In a gas burner a commingling chamber and a combustion chamber.
with means to supply air and gas to said chambers, of a perforated cone suspended
within the inverted combustion chamber, substantially as described.
Seventeenth-In a gas burner the combination of induction tube A, inverted
cone B, air duct D, substantially as and for the purposes specified.
Eighteenth-In a gasoline stove a retort, a commingling chamber and a duct
connecting said retort and said chamber, in combination with a side burner and a
communicating pipe between said chamber and the side burner, whereby ignited gas
may be carried from one to the other.
Nineteenth-In an apparatus provided with burners the combination therewith of
a communicating pipe, having an open end in close proximity to a burner, and the
other end connected with an outer air inlet and a gas jet orifice controlled by a valve
for throwing gas into said pipe.
Twentieth-In an apparatus provided with burners and a commingling chamber,
in combination therewith of a communicating pipe with one end entering the
commingling chamber and the other end open to the outer air, in close proximity
to another burner, whereby a gas flame may be started and maintained at said
open end.
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Twenty first The combination of a retort, a commingling chamber, a duct for
conveying gas from the retort to said chamber, a pipe leading from said chamber to
and in proximity to a side burner, and a side burner; whereby commingled air and
gas are conveyed from the commingling chamber to the exposed surfaces of the side
burners as set forth.
Dated this fifth day of Marah 1887