US Patent: 3,597
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| Manner of Constructing an Inflammable Gas or Vapor Engine
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Patentee:
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| Stuart Perry (exact or similar names) - Newport, Herkimer County, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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May 25, 1844 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| This was the first practical gas engine patented in the U. S. It was improved upon with patent #4,800.
Abstract:
In my inflammable gas or vapor engine the power which is to be obtained from it for the driving of machinery is to be produced by the expansion consequent upon the combustion of the vapor of spirits of turpentine or of other evaporable inflammable liquids, or of gas or vapor, or gas and vapor combined, obtained from undistilled turpentine, or from rosin or such other, substances as will produce inflammable vapor, carbureted hydro- gen, or other inflammable air by the aid of atmospheric air within a cylinder similar to that used in the steam-engine. It is well known to engineers that various attempts have been made to generate power by the combustion of explosive compounds within a cylinder, the expansive force of such compounds when ignited being in some eases allowed to act directly upon a piston, while in other cases the compounds have been exploded for the purpose of obtaining a vacuum into which- he piston might be forced by pressure induced on the opposite side of it; but such attempts have not resulted in the production of a machine which could be practically used with advantage. In my engine, however, I have, as I verily believe, fully succeeded in obtaining a large amount of power more economically than in the ordinary steam-engine and under an arrangement of parts, which renders it readily manageable, employing, as above indicated, the expansive force of the ignited compound to operate upon the piston.
Claim:
The manner in which I have combined and arranged the air-pump, the reservoir, the retort, the air-regulator, and the cocks which govern the admission of atmospheric air into the valve-box, and their immediate appendages, as above described, by which arrangement I am enabled to supply the inflammable vapor or gas in regulated proportions and to produce a pressure within the cylinder slightly exceeding that of the atmosphere at the moment of opening one of the ignition-orifices, which outward pressure is to be immediately succeeded by a draft inward, this being effected in the manner and for the purpose above described. |
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