Apparatus for burning oil with a high carbon to hydrogen ratio

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR BURNING OIL COMPRISING AXIALLY SYMMETRICAL ELONGATED COMBUSTION CHAMBER MEANS HAVING AN AXIALLY DISPOSED, CONSTRICTED, AIR INLET OPENING AT ONE END THEREOF, AND AN AXIALLY DISPOSED, CONSTRICTED, OUTLET OPENING FOR BURNT GASES AT THE OTHER END THEREOF, OIL INLET MEANS FOR DISPERING OIL IN A SPRAY ADJACENT THE AIR INLET, SAID OIL INLET MEANS BEING AXIALLY POSITIONED WITHIN SAID INLET OPENING SPACED FROM THE PERIPHERY THEREOF, A CONICALLY SHAPED BAFFLE AXIALLY POSITIONED ABOUT THE OIL INLET MEANS ADJACENT SAID INLET OPENING WITH ITS VERTEX END DISPOSED WITHIN SAID INLET OPENING, THE CONVERGENCE OF THE BAFFLE CONE BEING ABOUT 70-110*, SAID BAFFLE WITH SAID INLET OPENING DEFINING AN ANNULAR AIR INLET, THE AREA OF SAID ANNULAR AIR INLET BEING ABOUT 30-50% OF THE AREA OF SAID INLET OPENING, MEANS FOR WHIRLING AIR THROUGH THE AIR INLET FOR ADMIXING AIR AND OIL, SAID CHAMBER MEANS AND ITS INLET OPENING AND OUTER OPENING PERMITTING THE GASES TO FLOW IN A SPIRAL ROTATIONAL VORTEX ABOUT THE CHAMBER AXIS AND TO PROVIDE A RETURN STREAM OF BURNT GAS ADJACENT THE CHAMBER AXIS, THE RATIO BETWEEN THE DIAMETER OF SAID INLET OPENING AND SAID OUTLET OPENING FOR BURNT GASES BEING ABOUT 1:1.5 TO 1:2.5. AND THE RATIO BETWEEN THE DIAMETER OF SAID INLET OPENING AND THE LARGEST DIAMETER OF THE COMBUSTION CHAMBER BEING ABOUT 1:3 TO 1:5.