US913000A - Oil-separator. - Google Patents

Description

A. B. EMBRBE.

OIL SEPABATOR.

APPLIoATloH FILED JULY 21. 190s.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

upper end of said body, as shown at 7.

AMOS E. EMBREF., BOISE. IDAHO.

OIL-SE PAR ATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

Application filed July 21, 190s. serial No. 444,656.

To all whom 'it may concern:

citizen of the United States, residing at Boise, in the county of Ada and State of Idaho, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil-Separators, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for separating oil from the exhaust steam of steam engines and for analogous uses.

The object ofthe invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and practical device of the character in which the oil will be separated from the steam by reason of the expansion of the latter.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists of the novel features of construction and the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which 'gure 1 is a vertical section through the improved oil separator showing its connection with the exhaust from an engine; and Fig.l 2 is a horizontal section taken on the plane indicated by the line 2 2 in Fig. 1.

In the drawings 1 denotes a portion cf an engine 2 the steam exhaust pipe leadingr from t e same and3 the body of the improved oil separator. This body is in the form of a verticall disposed metal cylinder having a flanged ower end or'head 4 riveted to its bottom, as shown at 5, and an u er head or top 6 rovided` with an interna y threaded depen ing ange. which is screwed upon rltile e steam exhaust pipe 2 projects through the top 6 of the body, whichlatter providesa chamber in which the steam may exhaust so that the oil and the water composing the steam will separate and collect upon the bottom of the body or chamber and since the oil is lighter than water it will float upon the .same and may be drawn off through a faucet 8 arranged in one side of the body at a suitable distance from its bottom. The water is drawn off from the body through an outlet pi e 9, the inner end of which is controlled by a Eoat valve 10. The latter is in the form of a plug valve arranged upon the lower end of f an upright stem 11 carrying a iioat 12. Said Be 1t known that I, AMos E. EMBREE, a l

valve 10 is guided in its movementtoward and from its seat by a cage 13 in which it is arranged. Upon the outside ofthe body 3 is rovided a gage glass 14 to indicate the evel of the water and in said body, adjacent to its bottom may be provided a hand hole 15 which will permit the interior of tie body to bel readily cleaned. The hole 15 is covered by a suitable closure 16.

17 denotes an outlet or exhaust pi e leading from the top 6 of the body andp 18 denotes a plurality of supporting le carried b the bottom 4 for supporting t e device a ove the floor or other support.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is:

' 1. An oil separator comprising an expanding and se arating chamber having an outlet and an in et to receive the exhaust steam, means for drawing off the oil from said chamber, a water outlet ipe extending into the lower portion of the c amber and having an upturned end formed with a cone-shaped valve seat and an externally screw threaded portion, a cone-shaped valve, a stem projecting upwardly from the to of the valve, a float u on the u )per end o said stem, and a guide iibr the va ve stem and comprising an internally screw threaded sleeve engaged with the threaded portion of theupturned end of the water outlet pipe and 4formed at its top with upwardly and inwardly projecting guide lingers to slidably receive' the valve stem between their spaced upper ends, substantially as described.

2. The herein described oil separator comprising a cylinder expanding and vcollecting' chamber, a downwardl propctin Aiexhaust steam inlet pipe exten ing t roug the top of the same, an upwardly projectin outlet pipe projecting from the top of said c amber, supporting legs at the bottom of sald chamber, a sig t gage for indicatlng the @level of li uid in the chamber, a faucet for drawing o the oil from said chamber, a water outlet pipe extending into the bottom portion of the chamber and having an upturnled end formed with a cone-shaped valve seat and with an externally screw threaded portion, a cone-shaped valve, a stem projecti r from the top of the valve, a float upon the* top of said stem, and a guide iur the valve stem and consisting of 'a sleeve screwed upon the threaded ortion of said upturned end of the {vater out et ipe and formed at its top with 5 upwardly an inwardly projecting fingers to shdablv receive the valve stem between them.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aix my signature in the presence of two witnesses,

M105 E. EMBREE.

'itnesses:

C. M. BANTA, F. J. GAMER.

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