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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
RUFUS C. REED, OF JACKSONVILLE, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO W. A. DAY,
X. W. TOTTY, AND R. D. ATKINSON, ALL OF JACKSONVILLE, TEXAS.
CRUDE-OIL BURNER.
961,797. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 21, 1910.
Application filed December 8, 1909. Serial No. 532,123.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, Rurus C. REED, aI
citizen of the United States, residing at
Jacksonville, in the county of Cherokee and
5 State of Texas, have invented a new and
useful Crude-Oil Burner; and I do hereby
declare the following to be a full, clear, and
exact description of the invention, such as
will enable others skilled in the art to which
10 it appertains to make and use the same.
The invention about to be set forth be-
longs to the art of burners, and particularly
pertains to a new and useful hydrocarbon
burner adapted mainly for use in connection
15 with heating and cooking stoves or fur-
naces, or, in fact, any device or plant in
which heat is necessary and employing crude
petroleum or oil as the heating medium.
The essential object of the invention is to
20 provide manually operated means, whereby
a mixture of air, crude petroleum or oil and
water, may be forced, under air pressure,
into a receptacle or receiving pan having a
combustion chamber and against a draft or
25 baffle plate. By forcing this mixture against
a draft or baffle plate (which becomes highly
heated after the first charge of this mixture
is ignited) a spreading effect of the mixture
is obtained, and instantaneously after this
30 effect, the combustion occurs. As the mix-
ture emanates from the burners (there being
one or more of such burners shown) it is
partly converted into vapor.
A further object of the invention is to
35 provide means for vertically adjusting this
draft or baffle plate, whereby the spaces be-
tween the upper and lower edges thereof
and the under surface of the top of the
stove and the bottom of the receptacle may
40 be regulated, in order to increase or decrease
the capacity of the flame (which projects
below and above the upper and lower edges
of said plate).
A further object of the invention is to
45 regulate the amount of water used and to
gage the air pressure.
In this specification and the drawings an-
nexed hereto, a particular design of device
is complied with, but the invention is not to
50 be confined to this special design. The pro-
portions of the various parts may be changed
and varied according to the necessary re-
quirements. The device, in its actual re-
duction to practice, may require furtherchanges and variations; the right thereto 55
belongs to the applicant, provided such
changes and variations are comprehended
by the appended claims.
In the drawings:-Figure 1 is a perspec-
tive view of an ordinary cook stove or range, 60
showing one end thereof broken away in
order to show the oil receiving pan or re-
ceptacle, with its draft or baffle plate in posi-
tion, and also illustrating the means for
manually forcing a mixture of oil, air and 65
water through the burner tubes proper.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail perspective view
of the receiving pan or receptacle removed
from the stove. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal
vertical sectional view through the receiv- 70
ing pan or receptacle, showing the guides
for the draft or baffle plate, and the means
for holding the same in its adjusted posi-
tions. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the re-
ceiving pan or receptacle, one end thereof 75
being partly broken away in order to show
one of the guides clearer, and to further
illustrate how the draft or baffle plate is held
in position. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective
view of the draft or baffle plate removed 80
from the receiving pan or receptacle. Fig.
6 is a detail perspective view of a pivoted
member.
Referring to the annexed drawings, 1
denotes the ordinary cook stove or range, 85
having the usual fire-box 2, upon the grate
3 on which a receiving pan or receptacle 4
is positioned. This receiving pan or recep-
tacle is rectangular in plan view, and is pro-
vided with two longitudinal side flanges 5 90
and 6 and two end flanges 7 and 8. The
end flanges 7 and 8 are provided with guide-
ways 9 and 10 which receive the draft or
baffle plate 11, whereby the draft or baffle
plate may be readily guided. 95
Penetrating the end flanges 7 and 8 are
threaded members 12 to engage the ends of
the draft or baffle plate, in order to hold the
same in its adjusted positions, whereby the
space above and below the upper and lower 100
edge of the said plate and the top of the stove
and the bottom of the receiving pan or recep-
tacle may be increased or decreased. By in-
creasing or decreasing the space, the flames
from the combustion are also increased or 105
decreased. This draft or baffle plate, after
the first charge of the mixture of oil, air and
water is ignited, becomes intensely heated, and
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Reed, Rufus C. Crude-Oil Burner, patent, June 21, 1910; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512765/m1/3/?q=%22Social+Life+and+Customs+-+Furnishings+-+Kitchenware%22: accessed June 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.