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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
ALEXANDER F. DEMORY, OF NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-
HALF TO WILLIAM G. BARRON, OF NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS.
PETROLEUM-OIL BURNER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 719,762, dated February 3,1903.
Application filed May 13, 1902. Serial No. 107,074, (No model.)To all whom it imay conicerm:
Be it known that I,ALEXANDER F. DEMORY,
of Nacogdoches,in the county of Nacogdoches
and State of Texas, have invented a new and
5 useful Improvement in Petroleum-Oil Burn-
ers, of which the following is a specification.
My invention is in the nature of a novel
construction and arrangement of burner for
utilizing crude petroleum for the purpose of
io furnishing heat, power, and light for the use
of heating and cooking stoves, bake-ovens,
furnaces for hot air, steam, or water, the
boilers of locomotives and ships, and various
other uses for which it may be applicable.
15 It consists in a comparatively small and
simple burner which is easily portable and
which, with various accessories for regulating
the supply and discharge, operates upon the
principle of generating steam in one chamber
20 and then passing it to another, in which it is su-
perheated, and thence into another chamber,
to which the oil is fed and in which the steam
and heated oil are mixed and heated to form
a combustible gas, which then issuing through
25 nozzles under the steam-pressure is immedi-
ately ignited and burned to furnish heat for
any of the purposes named and at the same
time the necessary heat to continue the oper-
ation by generating more steam and heat
30 fresh accessions of oil in a continuous man-
ner. Traps are employed to control the wa-
ter-level and to give relief also as against ex-
plosion and for the removal of surplus water
and gas, separating the water and sending it
35 to the sewer, and saving the gas in a gasome-
ter for lighting purposes, the oil-tank to be
placed underground or at any suitable low
level and to be fed by hydraulic pressure, all
as hereinafter more fully described with ref-
40 erence to the drawings, in which--
Figure 1 is a side elevation of my burner
shown applied to the supply - pipe tanks,
valves, traps, and other accessories of my
system; and Figs. 2 to 11 are details.
45 The burner proper, which is to be inserted
in the fire-box of a furnace or at other point
of utilization, consists of the cast-iron cham-
ber B, in which steam is generated and which
I term the "primary" steam - chamber, a
5o second cast-iron chamber B', in which the
steam is superheated, an intermediate cast-iron chamber E, in which the steam and
oil are mixed, nozzles F F, from which the
combustible gas issues and is burned, and
a guard plate or hood G to protect the mixer 55
against the excessive heat of the blast in the
fire-box. (Not shown.) The chambers above
named are connected by pipes, as shown,
and the jets of burning gas issuing from the
nozzles F F are directed outwardly on both 6o
sides of the mixer against the steam-cham-
bers B and B' and also upwardly against the
pipes and mixer-chamber.
A is a water-supply pipe to chamber B,
where water is converted into steam, which 6;
passes through pipe C into superheating-
chamber B' and on through pipe C' into oil-
mixing chamber E.
D is an oil-supply pipe extending to mixing
chamber E where the oil is converted into gas 70
and forced out through the nozzles F F with
the steam coming from the pipes C C' form-
ing a combustible gas which is burned and
the blaze heating chambers B B' converts
the fresh accessions of water into steam. In 75
Fig. 9, 7 shows the angle of top hole in each
nozzle F, which holes throw the blaze up-
ward, while holes atS throw the blaze against
chambers B B'. These nozzles are also made
with only one hole in each, directed upwardly 8o
somewhat, as seen in Fig. 10. The supply
of water, steam, and oil to chambers B and
E is controlled by valves 9 and 10, which
regulate the proper amount of water and oil
by the use of grooved cone-pulleys (see Figs. 85
5 and 6) and a belt of wire cable or cord 6,
passing around same, as shown in Fig 1, or
by means of gear-wheels, as shown in Fig. 11,
as may be required.
II is a gas and safety and overflow pipe, 90
which is connected to chamber B, as shown
in Figs. 1 and 2. The pipe II is to enter
chamber B at any point desired in a manner
so that the water passing through A into
chamber B will fill the chamber B to the depth 95
of about three-eighths of an inch or more,
as may be required,and then flow out through
the pipe I. For this purpose a nipple, as
shown at 26, in the pipe-fitting (see Fig. 2)
has a small hole in the side next to the burner io>
and at the bottom side of pipe through which
the water from pipe A passes into chamber
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Demory, Alexander F. & Barron, William G. Petroleum-Oil-Burner, patent, February 3, 1903; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509034/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.