US1060651A - Ozone-generator. - Google Patents

Description

A. L. VAN PATTEN.

OZONE GENERATOR.

APYPLIOATION FILED AUG. 21, 1912.

1,060,651. Patented May 6,1913.

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@v1/incubo@ ,ANDREW L. 'VAN PATTEN, 0F LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

OZONE-GENERATOR.

" Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 6, 1913.

Application filed August 21, 1912. Serial No. 716,188.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREw I). VAN PAT;

TEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county` of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ozone-Generato-rs; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as. will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to means for proT4 ducing and medicating ozone gas, andA has for its object a simple apparatus which' can be used by a patient to administer the mediratus for generating and medicating ozone gas in side elevation'partly in section.

Reference being had to the drawing and the designating characters thereon, A indicates an electrical motor suitably positioned, B a disk or pulley connected by a belt C to the pulley D on the shaft of the motor.

W E is a crank on the supporting shaft of vthepulley and is connected to the piston rod F of a piston G inthe pump H, which is supported in a base I, surrounded by an insulator J and oscillates on a trunnion K.

F indicates an air induction port or pas-Y sage in the vouter' end of the pump cylinder, and G is a check valve in the piston2 open- .ing downwardly when any suction is produced by the up or outstroke of the piston. Within the ibase I is supported a flexible electrode W and to the piston G is attached a like flexible electrode W, in alinement with the former electrode, and each preferably provided with adjacent contact surfaces or points, as shown.

L is an extension on the base I in whose passage is a check valve M' of sufficient weight to insure compression of the air and to prevent the air returning to the pump, and N is a tube for connecting the pump with a receptacle O, andextends through a rubber stopper P in .the neckQ of the botwire.

tle. A similar tube N extends through a like rubber stopper P in the neck Q.

R is a double tapered tubular stopper' entering the neck Q of the receptacle O and the neck R, and through which passes a tube S, projecting into the medicated solution in the receptacle T and extending down into the receptacle O, and is filled with absorbent threads or sponge U, U, which conducts the solution into the gas in the receptacle O, by percolation or gravity and in finely divided particles. The threads U, U' may be adjusted in the tube S to ex ose more or less thereof in the receptacle to vary the degree of medication of the gas.

R is a stop cock through which the receptacle T is supplied with the medicine desired tol be administer-.ed and is indicated by V. The cock R also regulates the discharge of the medicated solu'tion to the receptacle O, by admitting more or less air to the receptacle T.

The line wires supplying current to the motor are so indicated and one of said wires is connected to a make and break induction or resistance coil X which supplies a high tension spark to the electrodes lV, IV when they are separated after making electrical contact with each other, the intensity of which is regulated by theswitch Y by introducing or cutting out one or more coils of The switeh'lY controls current from the line wires. v

The operation of the device is obvious, air

ycompressed by the pump passes into the receptacle O and surrounds the absorbent material U which issaturated with the medicine contained-in the receptacle T. At the same time the electrical current is trying to pass through wire 9 around coil X through a plurality of wire windings 1, 2, 3, 4, to contacts 5, 6, 7 or 8, through wire lOto the insulated base` I, to electrode W, to electrode W, then through the barrel of the pump to wire' l1 and out to line. The passage of current actually occurs when the electrodes are in contactas shown, but as the piston rises the electrodes separate and a high tension spark is produced at the contact points, which acting upon the surroundlng air in the base below the piston Aforms ozone gas asis well understood. The

next stroke of the piston forces the airand ozone finto' the receptacle O, to be medicated out deterioration of the medicine as occursv with bottles having tubes extending into the solution. l j

By the construction shown, a chamber is formed in the base I beyond the piston when it reaches the limit of its outstroke and in this chamber the ozone gas is formed and is forced into the receptacle O Where it is medicated.-

The subject matter contained in canceled claims 14, l5 and 16, is contained in a divisional application, led December 23, 1912, Serial No. 738,223. l

Having thus fully described my invention, what I cl-aimv is l. In an ozone-generator, an airpump, opposing electrodes within the pump chamber land means for producing high tension jparks between said electrodes Iin said chamer. v

2. lInan ozone-generator, an air pump, a fixed and a movable electrode in the pump chamber, and means for l producing high tensionsparks between said electrodes i said chamber.

3. In an ozone-generator, an air pump, a fixed electrode, a movable electrode` secured to and reciprocated with the piston of the pump, and means for producing high tension sparks between saidv electrodes in a chamber adjacent to said piston.

4. In an ozone generator, an air-pump, a valve controlling the eduction passage of the pump to produce compression of.: air in the chamber of the pump and. means for producing sparks adjacent to the'pis'ton at one end of its stroke. f

5. In an ozone-generator, an air pump, a

valve controlling the eduction passage ofthe pump to produce compression of air in the chamber of the pump, electrodes within the pump, and means for producing sparks between said electrodes in the pump.

6. I n an ozone-generator, an air-pump, a valve controlling the eduction passage of the pump to produce compression of air in the chamber of the pump, a xed and a movable electrode in the pump', and means for producing sparks between said electrodes in the pump. y

7 In an ozone-generator, an air pump provided with an induction valve, a plston, a valve controlling the eduction passage of the pump to produce compression of air in the pump, a fixed electrode, a movable electherethrough, a valve` controlling sald passage, an air receiving chamber, a compres-l sion chamber, a valve in the eduction passage, and means for producing sparks at one end of the cylinder.

9. In an ozone-generator, an air' pump, al

base therefor supported on a trunnion, elec,- trical insulation between the pumpand the base, a chamber formed in said base, a fixed electrode secured to the base, a movable elec.

ltrode connected to the pump piston, and

means for producing high tension sparks.

10. In an ozone-generator, an air pump, a chamber at the end of the compression stroke of the piston formed by 'thebaseof the pump and' the piston, a fixed electrode and a movable electrode whose contact is made in said chamber, and means for producing high tension sparks in the chamber.'

11. In an ozone-generator, an air pump, a base' therefor, having a compressed air chamberV therein, a trunnion on which t-he pump oscillates, a fixed electrode supported on the bottom of said base, an electrode connected to a movable member of the pump, and means for producing high tension sparks.

12. In an ozone-generator, an air pump, a fixed and a movable electrode arranged in the dischargelend of the pump, an induction coil provided with a plurality of wire windings, a contact for each winding and a switch adapted to engage .the several contacts to produce high tension sparks.

' In testimony whereof I affix my signature,

in presence of two Witnesses.`

' ANDREW L. VAN PATTEN.

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