Appeal No. 1997-2305
Application 08/451,459
application.
THE INVENTION
Appellant claims an electrical carbon arcing apparatus
for producing fuel gas. Claim 11, 17 and 21 are illustrative
and read as follows:
11. Apparatus adapted to convert carbon and water into a
fuel gas, comprising
a reactor vessel partly filled with water to a given
level,
a pair of spaced underwater graphite block electrodes
therein each having an electrical terminal and together being
adapted to be provided with electrical potential difference
thereacross sufficient to strike an underwater arc when
conductive means is interposed,
magazine means centered upright above the spaced
electrodes and laterally surrounding a plurality of conductive
rods and adapted to feed the rods one after another downward
into interposed position,
each rod being adapted in such interposed position to
contact edges of the respective block electrodes and thereby
enable an arc to be struck to decompose water into
constituents in gaseous form and into by-product gases
containing carbon, as a mixed fuel gas.
17. Apparatus adapted to convert carbon and water into a
fuel gas, comprising
a pair of spaced underwater graphite block electrodes
each having an electrical terminal and together being adapted
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