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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE
HENRY HARRISON YORTY AND JOHN S. PURDY, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS.
INCANDESCENT HYDROCARBON-LAMP.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 652,308, dated June 26, 1900.
Application filed September 20, 1899. Serial No, 731,122, (No model,)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, HENRY HARRISON
YORTY and JOHN S. PURDY, citizens of the.
United States, residing at Houston, in the
5 county of Harris and State of Texas, have in-
vented a new and useful Incandescent H-y-
drocarbon-Lamp, of which the following is a
specification.
This invention relates to hydrocarbon-
ro burners, and particularly to an incandescent'
hydrocarbon-lamp employing an easily-evapo-
rated oil for fuel, which is transformed into
gas before burning; and the objects in view
are to provide a simple, compact, and effi-
15 cent construction and arrangement of parts
having means for initially starting evapora-
tion of the fuel in a generator by igniting a
small quantity of the oil fed by the apparatus
to a point above the lamp-burner and sub-
20 sequently at a short interval by .the same
means ignite the burner and set up a regular
formation of the gas in the generator, and,
furthermore, to provide gas-generating means
in connection with one burner for supply-
25 ing an additional burner or burners within a
cluster or number of lamps supported by the
same pendant.
Further objects and advantages will be here-
inafter disclosed in the description and the
30 novelty expressed in the claims, and an em-
bodiment of the invention is illustrated in
the accompanying drawings, in which-
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of an ap-
paratus embodying the invention and show-
35 ing two burners. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional
view of the initial vaporizing device. Fig. 3
is a top plan view of a part of the generator
and valved feeding attachment therefor. Fig.
4 is a detail sectional view of one of the valves.
40 Similar numerals of reference are employed
to indicate corresponding parts in the several
views.
The numerals designates a reservoir, which
may be of the form shown or of any other orna-
45 mental character, and has connected to the
upper part thereof a suspending-devics, such
as a hook 2. Depending from -the lower por-
tion of the reservoir is a pipe or tube 3, which
serves as a conveyer for the oil from the res-
5o ervoir and also as a means of supporting the
devices below, and by means of an interme-
diate collar 4 a lower gas pipe or tube 5 isheld on the pipe or tube 3 and connected at
its lower terminNa, through the medium of a
T-coupling 6, with laterally-extending hori- 55
zontal branch pipes or tubes 7. The outer
terminals of the pipes or tubes 7 have elbows
8 connected thereto, and on their upturned
ends burners 9 are secured and supplied with
chimneys 10 and mantles 11 of any preferred 60
form, but preferably of the Welsbach char-
acter. Two burners 9 are shown in the draw-
ings, together with the necessary equipments
therefor; but it will be understood that it is
the intention of the invention to use any num- 65
ber of burners within a cluster or group and
have the gas-generating apparatus for all dis-
posed over and controlled by one of the burn-
ers only. The gas-feeding pipe or tube 5 has
its upper end 12 closed, so as to form a par- 70
tition between it and the oil-feeding pipe or
tube 3 for obvious reasons.
Communicating with the collar 4 is the up-
per end of a generator 13, consisting of a pipe
or tube of suitable dimensions and extended 75
outwardly and downwardly by regular bends
to a lower horizontal leg or member 14, which
stands closely over the upper terminal of the
chimney 10 of one of the burners, as shown,
and from thence is extended to form a valve- 8o
seat extremity 15, in which is adjustably
mounted a valve 16 of the form of a screw
and having a turn head or wheel 17 attached
thereto for adjusting purposes. A collar 18
is fitted over an opening 19 in the upper 85
part of the pipe or tube 5, below the upper
closed end 12, and communicating with said
collar 18 is the upper end of a combined
mixing and starting tube 20, having its oppo-
site end extended downwardly and reduced, 90
as at 21. Within the tube 20, at a prede-
termined distance from its opposite termi-
nals, is an inclined deflector 22, from which
the mixing-tube may be curved downwardly
in such manner that the gasolene or fluid 95
used in the lamp will be effectively conduct-
'ed to the reduced end of the said tube. Con-
nected to said tube below the deflector and
at a suitable angle is a nipple 23, having a
sleeve 24 adjustably mounted thereon. Be- ico
low the nipple 23 and sleeve 24 is an injec-
tor 25, connected to the valve-seat 15 of the
generator 13 by an intermediate branch 26,
as shown by Fig. 3. The injector 25 is to be
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Yorty, Henry Harrison & Purdy, John S. Incandescent Hydrocarbon-Lamp., patent, June 26, 1900; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511143/m1/2/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.