Showing papers by "Microsoft published in 1974"

Backpacker's stove

Abstract: Disclosed is a portable stove for burning various hydrocarbon fuels including a burner assembly, a fuel tank, a housing which carries an air pump and a fuel valve and which is releasably secured to the open neck of a fuel container, and a fuel tube which interconnects a burner assembly and the pump housing. The fuel tube locates the air pump, fuel valve and fuel tank remotely from the burner assembly for safety and ease of adjustment of the fuel valve. The air pump housing constitutes the closure for the fuel tank and an empty fuel tank is replaceable simply by unthreading it from the pump housing and threading thereto a full fuel tank. The fuel tube is releasably secured to the pump housing by a pivoted lever which prevents separating movement of the fuel tube and pump housing.