US Patent: 320,285
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| Electric Igniter Device for Gas Engines
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Patentee:
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| Daniel S. Regan (exact or similar names) - San Francisco, CA |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Dec. 06, 1884 |
| Granted: |
Jun. 16, 1885 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Union Gas Engine Co.
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Description: |
| Abstract:
My invention relates to improvements in gas-engines; and it consists in a certain device for igniting the charge of gas whereby the gas jet is dispensed with and the necessity of the slide-valve is entirely avoided. As the best means of effecting this end I have employed the electrical dynamo, which I operate by the engine, as will be shown.
Claims:
1. In an electrical igniter for gas-engines, the combination, with a gas-chamber, of terminals normally in circuit located within the same, and a finger carried by the piston-head for breaking the circuit, substantially as set forth.
2. In an electrical igniter for gas-engines, the combination, with a gas-chamber, of terminals normally in circuit located within the same, one of said terminals being movable and the other stationary, and a finger carried by the piston-head and adapted to break the circuit, substantially as set forth.
3. In an electrical igniter for-gas-engines, the combination, with a gas-chamber, of a pivoted lever, a stud, said stud and lever being normally in contact, and located within the gas-chamber, wires connecting with the dynamo, and means for breaking the contact of the stud and lever.
4. In an electrical igniter for gas engines, the dynamo O and insulated stud, in combination with a pivoted lever, the connecting wires P Q, and a finger carried by the piston head, substantially as set forth.
5. The dynamo O, connected by a wire, P, with an insulated stud having its contact end located within the gas-chamber and the connecting wire Q attached to the engine, in combination with a movable lever within the gas chamber, pulleys J and N, located as described, a belt connecting said pulleys, and means for breaking the contact of the stud and lever, substantially as set forth.
6. In an electrical igniter for gas-engines, the combination, with the gas-chamber, of an insulated stud, a pivoted lever, said stud and lever being normally in circuit, and a finger carried by the piston-head and adapted to break the contact of the stud and lever, substantially as set forth.
7. In an electrical igniter for gas-engines, the combination, with the gas-chamber, of terminals normally in circuits located within the same, one of said terminals having a slot, and a finger having a bent end, and carried by the piston-head to engage the same, substantially as set forth.
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