Dexter Hydrocarbon (Oil) Burner, Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1879
label: patent date
content: 1879-08-19
name: label: inventor
content: Dexter, Thomas B.
notes: label: Description
content: This model was submitted with the application for the patent issued to Thomas B. Dexter, of Lynn, Massachusetts (assignor of one-half his right to the Gilmanton Mills, Belmont, New Hampshire), August 19, 1879, no. 218619.
label: Description
content: The model represents a tubular burner with a slightly reduced tip, provided with a vertical diaphragm that divides the burner into two sections. The space on one side of the diaphragm is connected to the oil line and to an air inlet pipe provided with a damper for adjusting the flow of air. The other space is connected to the steam line. In operation the flow of steam from the tip creates suction enough to draw the oil and air through the burner. The oil and air are heated by contact with the diaphragm, which separates them from the steam, and are intimately mixed when they issue from the burner. The diaphragm is notched just inside the tip so that the mixing of the steam and the air and oil results in the formation of a wide, thin, horizontal sheet. This produced a sheet of flame that spread over a large part of the furnace.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: This description comes from the 1939 Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States Museum Bulletin 173 by Frank A. Taylor.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Hampshire
label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Lynn
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Bulletin 173
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Frank A. Taylor. Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States National Museum, Bulletin 173
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.308765
label: catalog number
content: 308765
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 218,619
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oil burner, model
label: Object Name
content: patent model, burner, hydrocarbon
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nickel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: nickel nozzle - from catalog card: 10 in; 25.4 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 5 in x 3 3/8 in; 26.035 cm x 12.7 cm x 8.5725 cm