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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
TALBOT O. BATEMAN, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
ACETYLENE-GAS GENERATOR.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,485, dated July 25, 1899.
Application filed May 15,1899. Serial No. 716,790. (No model)To all 'whOl)b it imay conce';v
Be it known that I, TALBOT 0. BATEMAN, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Fort
Worth, Texas, have invented certain new and
5 useful Improvements in Acetylene-Gas Gen-
erators, of which the following is a specifica-
tion.
This invention relates to apparatus for the
production and storing of acetylene gas; and
to the object is to construct a machine which
will be compact in form and simple in con-
struction and perfectly automatic in opera-
tion and in which the generating-chamber,
the water-supply-tank, the storage-chamber
15 for gas, and a plurality of- cups for storing
carbid will all be contained in one small ves-
sel cylindrical in form.
Other objects and advantages will be fully
explained in the following description and
:o more particularly pointed out in the claims.
Reference is had to the accompanying draw-
ings, which form a part of this application.
Figure 1 is a vertical section of the storage-
chambers and the generating-chamber Fig
25 2 is a plan view of the machine. Fig. 3 illus-
trates the arrangement and construction of
the carbid-cups, the view being a broken sec-
tional view. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the
chute for feeding water to the cups. Fig. 5
30 is a detail view of the casting which holds
the generating-chambers in place. Fig. 6 is
a front view of the gage for determining the
amount of gas in the storage-chamber.
Similar characters of reference are used to
35 indicate the same parts throughout the sev-
eral views.
The water - compartment A is mounted
above the gas-storage chamber B and is pro-
vided with an orifice a' and cap b'. A tube C
40 forms a passage from the upper chamber A
to the lower chamber B. This tube is pro-
vided with a cut-off valve d, which is oper-
ated by the rod g, which projects up through
the top of chamber A and is provided with a
45 handle f. One or more generating-chambers
D are mounted in chamber B. The cham-
ber D is cylindrical in form and has an an-
nular flange ii at the top, which flange rests
on an interior annular flange k of a casting G.
5o The casting G has a shoulder in on the out-
side, which forms a joint against the top 71
of the chamber A The casting is solderedair and gas tight to the top n of the cham-
ber A. A gasket-ring p is placed on top of
the casting G, and a cap F is screwed on the 55
casting for closing the passage through the
casting. Cap F is provided with a handle
p'. The generating-chambers D are provided
with several small holes for gas to pass to
the storage-chamber B. A small chute H1 for 6o
a water-drip is pivotally attached to the inte-
rior of the chamber D. The chute is adapted
to cause the water to drop in the center of the
carbid-cup and is pivoted so that it will not
obstruct the passage of the cups when being 65
taken out of the chamber. The chute II is
made and set so that it will yield upward, but
not downward. There are several of these
cups J, and all are locked together, so that
all may be taken out together Each cup is 70
closed at the bottom and has a chime N at the
top with holes M therethrough and a chime
P at the bottom with holes M' therethrough.
The chime P of one cup rests within the chime
N of the next cup below. The holes M and M' 75
are so made that they are in alinement with
each other and serve a double purpose. They
let the gas escape from the cups, and they are
so made that the pipe K will pass through both
chimes, and thus lock the cups together. The 8o
pipes K serve a double purpose. They serve
to convey water to the next cup below and to
lock the cups together. These pipes rest in
the perforations M M' and may be rigid or
flexible. It will be observed that the cups 85
are so arranged that all the carbid in the cup
above will be used up, and when the water
overflows it will go to the next cup below,
and so on until the last cup in the generating-
chamber is reached. Water enters through 90
a small opening r just above the water-drip.
After the carbide is used up out of one gener-
ating-chamber the water will run into an-
other chamber, which has a similar supply of
cups of carbid; but the opening r is higher 95
up in the chamber than the Qpening in the
chamber first used. The pipe K leads out of
each cup near the top part thereof and en-
ters the cup below through its chime. The
water-drip H is attached to the interior of ioo
the chamber by attaching, by soldering or
otherwise, a piece of E-shaped metal H' and
then pivoting the drip H in this piece of metal.
Compartment B is provided with a drain-
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Bateman, Talbot O. Acetylene-Gas Generator., patent, July 25, 1899; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510421/m1/2/: accessed May 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.