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*UNTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN ALBERT HUDGENS, OF PINELAl\D, TEXAS.
CRUDE-OIL BURNER.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Aug. 7- 1917.
Application filed February 14, 1917. .erial No. 148,550.
To all "'horn it may concern:
Be it known that I, JOHN ALBERT HUD-
GENs, a citizen of the United States, resid-
ing at Pineland, in the county of Sabine
5 and State of Texas, have invented new and
useful Improvements in Crude-Oil Burners,
of which the following is a specification.
This invention is an improved burner for
use especially in the fire-box of a cook stove
0 or heating stove or the like for cooking and
heating purposes, and especially adapted
for vaporizing and burning liquid fuel of
low grade such as crude oil, the object
of the invention being to provide an im-
1.5 proved burner of this class which is ex-
tremely cheap and simple in construction,
which is strong and durable, which is not
likely to get out of order, which requires
very little attention, is safe from danger of
20 explosion or the like and which enables
crude oil to be used for heating and cook-
ing purposes.
The invention consists in the~construction,
combination and arrangement of devices
25 hereinafter described and claimed. -
In the accompanying drawings:-
Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sec-
tional view of a crude oil burner constructed
and arranged in accordance with my in-
30 vention.
Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical sectional
view of the same.
Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of
the same.
35 In the .embodiment of my invention I
provide a generating chamber 1, which. in
practice is preferably a hollow casting and
which is of oblong rectangular form with
its corners rounded. A fuel supply pipe
40 2 which leads from a suitable tank or other
reservoir is connected to the front end of
the generating chamber, as at 3 and em-
bodies a .T 4 which is provided with, a
controlling valve 5. which is here shown as
45 a needle valve. The generatingchamber is
provided in its rear end wall with a clean
out opening 6 in which a closure plug 7 is
placed. On the bottom. of the generating
chamber, at a point near the rear end there-.
50 of is an upwardly ,extending transversely
arranged bridge 8.
I also provide a burner chamber 9 which
in practice is a casting and which is formed
integrally with a generating pan 10 the
55 burner chamber being formed on the.oottomof the pan, spaced from the front end of
the pan and extending to the rear end wall
thereof.. The side. walls of the generating
pan are inclined and converge downwardly
and are provided with a suitable number of 60
draft openings 11 of suitable size. The rear
end wall of the burner chamber is provided
with a clean out opening 12 which is closed
by a plug 13.
The generating chamber is arranged above 65
the burner chamber in spaced relation there-
to and is connected to the burner chamber by
a vertically arranged pipe nipple 14 the
upper end of which is screwed in an open-
ing in the bottom of the generating cham- 70
ber and the lower end of which is screwed
in an opening in the upper side of the
burner chamber. The generating chamber is
also provided with a supporting leg 15
which is bolted to one end wall of the gen- 75
crating pan as at 16. On its upper side the
burner chamber is provided with gas vent
jets or nipples 17 which are directed up-
wardly and cause burning gas jets to be di-
rected against the lower side of the generat- 80
ing chamber to heat the latter and hence
vaporize the crude oil which is fed to the
generating chamber by the pipe 2.
The valve'5 serves to control the supply of
crude oil to the generating chamber and may 85
be adjusted as desired and said valve is
the only valve with which the burner is
provided and enables .:)e burner to be ex-
tinguished at will it being necessary to com-
pletely close said valve in order to cut off the 90
supply of crude oil to the generating cham-
ber. The bridge 8 serves to retain the crude oil
in the generating chamber until the oil is
entirely vaporized and hence nothing but
vapor or gas passes from the generating 95
chamber through the nipple 14 to the bur-
ner chamber.
To start the burner in operation the valve
5.is opened sufficiently to cause the generat-
ing chamber to be supplied with crude oil 100
and a small quantity of crude oil or other
liquid hydrocarbon is placed in the gener-
ating pan and ignited to initially heat the
generating chamber. When the burner has
been once started in operating it will con- 105
tinue so to do as long as the valve 5 is
kept open.
My improved crude oil burner is used in
the fire-box of a. cooking or heating stove
or furnacerthe pipe of which serves to carry 1101,236,305.
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Hudgens, John Albert. Crude-Oil Burner., patent, August 7, 1917; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth854164/m1/2/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.