US355626A - Apparatus for enriching illuminating-gas - Google Patents

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P. B. STRUNZ. APPARATUS POB, ENRIGHING ILLUmuNATINGf GAS.l

No. 355,626, Patente-d Jan.- 4, 1887.

Astructed according to my invention.

tlNTTnn STATES PATENT Fries.

APPARATUS FOR ENRICHING iLLUNilNATlNG-GAS.

SPECIFICATION inning part of Letters Patent No. 355,5 26, dated January 4., 1887.

Application filed June 21,186.

To LZZ whom, it mag/'colmena' Be it known that I, FREDERICK B. STRUNZ, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Pitts burg, in the county of Allegheny and State. of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Enriching Illuminating-Gas, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to apparatus for en riching illuminating-gas by bringing it, while heated, into contact with a volatile hydrocarbon, by which the gas is caused to take up a certain percentage of the volatilized material.

The purpose of my invention is to provide 'an extremely simple, compact, and easily-operated device whereby this purpose may be effected; and it consists in the several novel features of construction and combinations-of parts hereinafter fully set forth, and definitely pointed outin the claim annexed to this speciiication. f

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical central section of an apparatus con- Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same in operation.

In the said drawings, the reference-numeral l designates the gas-supply pipe, which may.

be the stem of any ordinary gasbracket. Upon this stem is mounted a metallic spheroid, 2, having a neck, 3, provided with a female thread, by which the connection is made, and having 'at its highest point a burner-tip, 4, mounted upon a disk, 5, which is tapped into a boss, 6, upon the spheroid 2, forming a removable cap, which may be utilized to obtain access to the interior.

A little in rear oi" the burner-'tip 4 is formed a boss, 7, into which is tapped a vertical tube, 8, rising to a height of some inches above the top of the spherical shell 2.

From the neck 3, and from a point j ust above the stem l of the gas-bracket, a pipe, 9, rises, the lower open end thereof wholly closing the opening between the interior of-the shell 2 and the neck 3. This pipe is slightly curved to one side to bring it into the axial line of the vertical pipe 8, into which it enters and extends to a pointnear the upper closed end of said pipe, as shown in Fig. l. The pipe 9 is open .at both ends and constitutes the channel through which the gas must pass as it tlows from the gas-supply pipe l, the diameter Serial No. 205,793. (No'morlel.)

described, the gas is turned on at the bracket and lighted at the burner-tip 4. generated thereby is speedilymparted to the outer closed tube, 8, through which the gas passes after it leaves the pipe 9. The gas heated thereby Hows down into the interior of the shell 2, where it is brought in contacty with the hydrocarboncontained therein, a`V

portion of which is volatilized by the heat and taken upY by or mingled with the gas. The gas thus enriched is consumedv at the burner, giving an increased illumination with a less consumption of the gas from the main source of supply.

The other advantages of this invention are, that as but comparatively small quantities of hydrocarbon are used at any one point, there is not only no danger of explosion, but the `complicated and costly apparatus for the generation of the enriching gas is wholly avoided, makingagreat reduction in expense, and saving much time and labor. y

By turning the burner-tip until the slot in its end is directed toward the standing pipe 8, the full heating-power of the llame may be di-l rected upon the said tube, whereas byffar ranging it slightly to one side or theother, so that the flame shall not strike upon the pipe, the heating-power may be varied according to requirements.

rlhe shell containing the naphthaline may be of any form other than spherical.

I am aware that it is not broadly new toV provide so-called carbureting-lampsl with means for heating gas prior to its entrance into a vessel containing a hydrocarbon which is designed to be vaporized by the heated gas in order to become mingled therewith and enrich the same. Lamps of this nature have been made in various ways with provisionfor an upward and downward passage ofthe gas in tubes contiguous to the gas-flame. not aware, however, that an apparatus of the `The heat IOO Iam

construction herein described and claimed has hitherto been used,.lor that a carburetingvessel has heretofore been provided at the top with concentric gas-tubes projecting above said vessel, and with an adjacent rotatable plug that closes the illing-orice, and carries a burner-tip, which is thus capable of being turned toward or away from the concentric gas-tubes to vary the degree of heat thrown thereon. By my construction I provide a device of great simplicity which is capable of thoroughly heating the gas before it comes in contact with the hydrocarbon, and which enables the heating of the gas and consequent intensity of the light to be controlled at will by simply turning the burner-tip without diminishing or increasing the How of gas.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is A carbureting gas lamp composed of a carscrew-neck through the carbureting-vesseland int'o the heating-tube, and the rotatable plug 5, and connected burner-tip 4, seated in the upper screw-neck and adapted to be turned to vary the degree of heat thrown on the heating-tube, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK B. srEUNz.

lVitnesses: y

D. P. BERG, I-I. J. WENKE.

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