Method producing steam-like fumes for toy engine

• US 4,374,038 A
• Filed: 01/11/1981
• Issued: 02/15/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/1981
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Muneo Tamura
• Original Assignee: Muneo Tamura
• Inventors: Tamura, Muneo
• Primary Examiner(s): Shay, F. Barry
• Application Number:
  US06/232,022
• Time in Patent Office: 765 Days
• Field of Search: 46/9, 46/231, 252/305, 219/273, 431/208, 431/210, 431/4
• US Class Current: 516/3
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 19/14 Arrangements for imitating locomotive features, e.g. whistling, signalling, puffing

Abstract

A fuming or smoke-emitting device used on a model steam locomotive of railway model driven by an electric motor. It is therefore required to reduce the fuming device as much as possible and to simulate the smoke exhausted from the actual locomotive in the smoking state. This fuming device comprises a container which has therein Nichrome wire and is provided at its upper portion with perforation for exhausting the fume or smoke. The container is filled with water and oil having non-affinity with each other. When the heater is heated, the water is boiled to thereby stir the oil. Thus, the oil is burnt, and the smoke of fume thus produced is exhausted by the steam. The fuming state by this combustion phenomenon simulated the smoke exhausted from the actual locomotive, because this fume thus exhausted from the locomotive is similar in principle to the utilization of the steam exhausted usually from the normal cylinder.

Claims

1. In a method for producing fumes appearing like steam for the chimney of a toy steam engine, the method comprising the steps of depositing water and oil having a non-affinity with the water in a container having an open end and an electrically conductive wire exposed to contact with said water and oil located adjacent the lowest part of the container, and passing current through said wire to raise the temperature of the oil and water sufficiently to cause the oil to burn and the water to evaporate.