US Patent: 125,166
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| Improvement in Gas Engines
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Patentee:
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| George B. Brayton (exact or similar names) - Boston, MA |
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Patent Dates:
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| Granted: |
Apr. 02, 1872 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Brayton Petroleum Engine Co.
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Description: |
| Patented in Canada, patent #CA-2343.
Abstract:
The invention hereinafter described relates to a means for making practically available, is a motive-power, those compounds which re- milt from the mixture of gases obtained from light hydrocarbons with atmospheric air. It has for a longtime been known that such compounds were capable of developing, upon ignition, an immense degree of force, and various attempts have been made to employ them as motive agents for working machinery. My invention is embodied in a structure which provides, first, for maintaining an accumulation Aa limited quantity of the gaseous compound under considerable but- uniform pressure in the reservoir, the supply to the reservoir being always proportioned to the consumption of the engine, and the gaseous compound mixed only as it is introduced to the reservoir; and, secondly, for introducing a jet of the mixed compound so under pressure, while in the act of changing its volume as the result of ignition, into a cylinder, to act with its expansive force upon a moving piston.
Claim:
A pumping-engine, for condensing air and gas; a reservoir for containing such agents, either separated or when mixed, and a cylinder and working-piston, provided with suitable automatic valve-gear, operating induction and eduction valves, when such cylinder is furnished with a perforated partition whose office is to maintain a torch to fire the successive charges of gaseous mixture as they are entering the cylinder and prevent the back action of the ignited charge. |
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