CA Patent: CA-2,343
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Improvement in Gas Engines
Une Machine a Gaz
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Patentee:
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| George B. Brayton (exact or similar names) - Boston, Suffolk County, MA |
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Patent Dates:
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Mar. 17, 1873 |
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May 08, 1873 |
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CIPO Data
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Brayton Petroleum Engine Co.
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Description: |
| Patented in the U. S., patent #125,166.
Abstract:
The invention, hereafter described, relates to a means of making practically available as a motive power, those compounds, which result from the mixture of gases obtained from light hydro-carbons with atmospheric air. It has for a long time been known that such compounds ere 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 imbodied in a structure, which provides first, for maintaining an accumulation of a limited quantity of gaseous components 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 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, wither unparted or when mixed and a cylinder and working piston, provided with workable and 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 to cylinder and prevent the back action of the ignited charge. |
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