On this day in 1921 Meinhard H. Kotzebue was granted the patent for VAPORIZING BURNER FOR HYDROCARBON FUELS. U.S. Patent No. 1,393,547.

The object of the invention is to provide a  simple, inexpensive and efficient vaporizing burner in connection with which may be used hydrocarbon fuels of a more or less crude or unrefined form under conditions conducive to economy in the consumption and cost of the fuel together with completeness of combustion; and with these objects in view.

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