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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
ERNEST F. STANTON, OF WELLINGTON, TEXAS.
CRUDE-OIL BURNER.964,457.
Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 12, 1910.
Application filed February 1, 1910. Serial No. 541,334.To alt whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, ERNEST F. STANTON,
a citizen of the United States of America,
residing at Wellington, in the county of Col-
5 lingsworth and State of Texas, have invented
new and useful Improvements in Crude-Oil
Burners, of which the following is a specifi-
cation.
This invention relates to devices for burn-
10 ing crude oil and the like, and it has for its
prime object to produce a device of this class
which may be used in connection with an or-
dinary stove and which may be introduced
through the door opening of such stove, the
15 feed connection being disposed at a distance
from the door opening, and there being no
obstruction whatever to the top of the stove,
as is the case when an oil burner is intro-
duced through one of the openings in the top
20 plate.
Further objects of the invention are to
simplify and improve the general construc-
tion and operation of a device of the class
outlined above.
25 With these and other ends in view which
will readily appear as the nature of the in-
vention is better understood, the same con-
sists in the improved construction and novel
arrangement and combination of parts which
30 will be hereinafter fully described and par-
ticularly pointed out in the claim.
In the accompanying drawing has been
illustrated a simple and preferred form of
the invention, it being, however, understood
35 that no limitation is necessarily made to the
precise structural details therein exhibited,
but that changes, alterations and modifica-
tions within the scope of the invention may
be resorted to when desired.
40 In the drawing,-Figure 1 is a sectional
elevation 'showing a cook stove to which the
improved oil burner has been applied. Fig.
2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the im-
proved oil burner detached. Fig. 3 is a
45 transverse sectional view, showing the oil
burner located in the fire box of a cook stove.
Fig. 4 is a perspective detail view of the
detachable cover used in connection with the
device.
50 Corresponding parts in the several figures
are denoted by like characters of reference.
The improved oil burner consists of an
elongated trough or casing 1 which may be
provided on the underside thereof with lon-
55 gitudinal supporting ribs or flanges 2 and
with transverse ribs 3-3, extending part-way between the longitudinal side flanges so
as to assist in supporting the device upon
the grate bars of a stove when such grate
bars 4 are longitudinally disposed, as will 60
be seen in Figs. 1 and 3. The trough or cas-
ing 1 is provided at one end, which may be
designated as the outer end, with an upward
extension 5, the side portions of which are
connected by a transverse breast piece 6, said 65
upward extension and breast piece combin-
ing to constitute a neck which is provided
near its upper edge with an interiorly dis-
posed annular flange 7 upon which a plate 8
constituting a cover may be detachably sup- 70
ported, said cover plate being provided with
draft apertures 9 and with a larger opening
10 for the passage of a feed pipe 11 through
which liquid fuel may be conveyed by grav-
ity from a suitably located tank or container 75
12, the feed being regulated by means of a
valve 13 of ordinary construction. Absorb-
ent refractory material, such as mineral
wool or broken pieces 14 of fire brick or the
like, may be placed in the bottom of the 8o
trough or casing.
In the operation of the invention, the cas-
ing is introduced into the fire box of an
ordinary cook stove 15, where it is sup-
ported upon the grate. The front door or 85
the fire door of the stove may be entirely
removed for the admission of the device,
and the portion of the door opening above
the upper edge of the trough proper will
be obstructed by the breast plate 6 of the 90
upwardly extending front portion of the
trough. To start the burner a small portion
of liquid fuel is permitted to pass through
the feed pipe into the trough or casing,
where it will be absorbed by the material 95
14, its ignition being thereby facilitated.
The absorbent material, as well as the walls
of the trough or casing quickly be-
comes heated, and fuel fed to the
burner will thus be vaporized, and the 100
vapor will become commingled with at-
mospheric air entering through the draft
apertures 9 in the top plate 8, thus forming
a combustible mixture which will burn with
great intensity and develop a high degree 105
of heat.
It will be seen that owing to the improved
construction of this device, the top of the
stove in connection with which the burner
is used, will not be obstructed, but will be- 110
come intensely heated very quickly and at
little expense for fuel.
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Stanton, Ernest F. Crude-Oil Burner., patent, July 12, 1910; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510542/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.