US341739A - Hydrocarbon-vapor stove - Google Patents

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HYDROGARBON VAPOR STOVE.

No. 341,739. I

Patented May 11, 1886.

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HYDROGABBON VAPOR STOVE No. 341,739. Patented May 11, 1886.-

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MICHEL o. FAGAN, OFTROY, NEW YORK.

HYDROCARBON=VAPOR STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,739, dated May 11, 1866,

Application filed June 9, 1884. Serial No. 134,265.

- uary 1?, 1882, No. 252,307.

.nearly full ofhydrocarbon liquid, the air becomes so heavily charged with combustible vapor, ifthe whole pressure-current of air is under its influence, that it is liable to evolve' smoke while burning, and by mixing air with it before it reaches the burners this contingency is avoided.

Another object of my invention is to combine with a bydrocarbon-vapor-burning stove an oven and warming-closet, and also a means to burn a part of the hydrocarbon vapor pro duced by the apparatus connected with the stove for purposes of illumination, that the cooking operations being carried on may be seen when the stove is being used at night, the details of which, in construction and an rangement, will be fully given and explained hereinafter.

Accompanying this specification, to form a part of it, there are two plates of drawings containing four figures illustrating my invention, with the same designation of its parts by letters of reference used in all of them.

Of these illustrations, Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a hydrocarbon -vapor burning stove containing my invention and improvement. Fig. 2 shows a longitudinal central vertical section of the same stove. Fig. 3

illustrates a perspective of the evaporating (No model.)

vessel, and Fig. t shows in an enlarged pro portion a valve and a branch pipe in part that are used to divideand regulate the entering current of air and its distribution. h

The several parts of the stove are designated by letter-reference, and the function of the parts is described as follows: The letter S. indicates the stove sides, T its boiler-hole top, and 6 its bottom. The letter B designates an evaporatingvessel for containing hydrocarbon liquid, said vessel being made with labyrinthian passages or fines t, formed by partitions F, and the letters a indicate wicks suspended in said lines to facilitate and increase the evaporation of the hydrocarbon liquid, the said hydrocarbon vessel thus shown being the same in construction that is illustrated in my patent before alluded to.

The letter P indicates an inclosure contain ing a mechanism for injecting air by means of clock-work and a fan into one of the outer flues of the evaporating-vessel by and through an offset or tube, p connecting the center flue with the air-supply pipep, and p designatesa pipe leading from the central flue of the evaporating-vessel, to convey away to be burned the mixed air and hydrocarbon vapor.

The letter p indicates a pipe that connects with the air-conveying pipep, and the Vapor and air conveying pipe 1), and V indicates a valve placedon the pipe 19", which, when open,

permits air under pressure to pass to the pipe 1- and mix with the combined air and vapor coming from the evaporating-vessel, and so that when the vapor is too dense to burn with out smoking, air may be mixed with itto prevent this diiiiculty.

The letters 1) and p indicate branch pipes, which connect with the pipe 1), and supply flame to the under side of the boiler-hole top openings, 0 O, and p a pipe for conveying the combustible vapor to the waterreservoir R, the pipes 29 p 13 all connecting with the pipe 19 from which they receive asupply of hydrocarbon vapor.

The letter (Z designates a pipe leading from the pipe p to convey a part of the vapor to be burned beneath the oven N, and the letter J indicates a pipe connecting with the central chamber or flue 0f the evaporatingvessel B, which pipe is provided with burners for the ignition and burning of the vapor for illumimating the surroundings of the stove when the latter is used at night or in a dark place, so that the operations of cooking may be observed.

The top T and bottom e are arranged in about the same manner herein as the same parts are shown in the stove illustrated in the patent alluded to. and to this structure have added an oven. N, made with a top flue, F, side flues, F F, and a bottom flue, E, constructed with ingress air-openings n at the front, for the admission of air to the said bot tom flue, E.

The letter V designates a valve on the pipe leading to the oven, and V and V valves on the pipe leading to the boiler-hole openings 0, located in the top of the stove.

The letter V indicates a valve on the pipe for supplying hydrocarbon vapor to the reservoir R, and as these valves V" V V V are arranged in the pipes the reservoir or either of the boiler-hole top openings may be used separately from the others, or all of them may be used together, or a part of them used together. The reservoir R is combined with a bottom flue and a side flue and exit-opening, the latter being designated at m and the former at I am aware that for heating soldering-irons there has been used a close vessel or reservoir to contain air under pressure, which was connected by means of a pipe with a carbon vaporizer, and that the mixture of air and carbonized vapor'passing from the latter to burn was supplied by a current of air coming from an air-blast, with the latter produced by a mechanical means that was separate from that which forced the air into the close vessel or reservoir. This older means differed from mine in the fact that in the latter but one means of giving motion or pressure to the air is employed, and the moving current of air when passing through a conduit is divided before entering the hydrocarbon vaporizing-vessel, one port-ion of the current being conducted by a pipe to the latter and the other current through a pipe to mix with the carbonized air, with an intermediate valve on the latter pipe to regulate the amount of passing air.

For a mechanism to supply air under pressure any of the well-known means employed for that purpose may be used, that which I prefer to employ being actuated by a weight and clock-work which operates a fan.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut is 1 The stove herein described, provided with the chamber P, having mounted therein an air-forcing mechanism to produce a current of air therefrom, and provided with anairconduit pipe, 1) 19 1), having a valve, 2/, in combination with the hydrocarbon chamber B, provided with a conduit-pipe, 172, provided with a burner at its delivery end, and arranged to intersect the open end of the air-pipep", substantially as described, and for the purpose stated.

2. In a vapor-stove, the combination of the air-chamber P, having mounted therein an air-forcing mechanism for producing a current of air, and provided with the conduit-pipe p 19* 10 having a valve, 12, and arranged with its exit end to openin the hydrocarbon-conduit pipe. and the vaporizing-chamber B, having a hydrocarbon-conduit pipe intersecting the end of the air-conduit pipe, with the piped, provided with a burner at its delivery end, and having valve 1;", and arranged with its entrance end to intersect the hydrocarbon pipe, and opposite to the exit end of the airpipe, substantially as described, and for the purpose stated.

3. In combination with the air-chamber P, having mounted therein an air-forcing mechanism for producing a current of air therefrom, and provided with .the conduit-pipep p 10 having a valve, 12, and arranged with its exit end to open into the hydroearb0n-condnit pipe, and the hydrocarbon-chamber B, provided with the pipe 19, leading therefrom and intersected by the open end of the pipe 19 of the pipe 1), arranged on the upper end of the pipe 1)", and provided with a burner at its delivery end, substantially as described, and for the purpose stat-ed.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 28th day of May, 1884, and in the presence of the two witnesses whose names were by them hereto written.

MICHEL e. :FAGAN.

Witnesses:

FRED HAM, CHARLES S. BRINTNALL.

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