Improvements in and Connected with Appliances Applicable for Lighting and Heating Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improvements in and Connected with Appliances Applicable for
Lighting and Heating Purposes.
I, JAMES LYLE, of 6 Orchard Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
.
This Invention has reference to new or improved constructions and arrangement
and combination of appliances, applicable for raising and lowering lamps in which oil
and compressed air or steam are used to produce a light for illuminating large open
spaces, such as ship-yards, boiler-sheds, docks, and similar places where workmen are
employed at night; and for separating water or moisture from the compressed air fed
to such lamps; part of the improvements or fittings being applicable to steam-boiler
furnaces where oil and air or steam are used as liquid fuel. These improvements
will be simple in construction and give great facilities as compared with the
appliances heretofore in use.
The nature and novelty of my improvements, under one self-contained and portable
arrangement, consist all as follows:-On the top of the oil cistern, which would
preferably be of a domed or curved shape, I secure by flanges and bolts and
nuts, or equivalent fastenings, a new or improved construction of vessel or trap for
separating water or moisture from the compressed air used in the lamps, an india-
rubber ring being preferably inserted between the top of the oil cistern and the flanges
of the moisture trap. This moisture separating trap is formed of a vertical domed
shape with a branch at its side near the upper end, to which is connected the pipe
conveying the compressed air to the lamp and to the oil vessel below for forcing up
the oil to the lamp, this pipe being preferably fitted with a regulating tap. The
compressed air passes into and deposits any moisture in this separating trap vessel,
and from thence passes through an outlet in the upper end to a pipe leading to the
lamp. The oil is led up from the bottom of the cistern by a pipe through the centre
of this moisture trap to the top, where it is connected to a pipe leading to the lamp.
An open ended tube is fitted round this inner oil tube being secured to the top of
the oil cistern by screw jam nuts, and extends to near the upper part of the trap. The

page_text: compressed air in the trap passes down this outer tube to the oil cistern and forces
the oil through the central oil tube to the lamp. A short drawing-off tap is fitted at the
lower end of the trap for discharging from time to time the water or liquid deposited
by the compressed air. A vertical socket is secured above the oil cistern, preferably
by being cast on the side of the moisture trap, and in this socket is inserted the
lower end of a long vertical tube or rod standard, preferably about 16 or 18 feet high,
on which the lamp is raised and lowered as will hereinafter be described. A sliding
bracket, carrying the lamp portably secured thereto, is fitted round this vertical
standard, and slides up and down on it, a groove on the inner surface of the socket
of the bracket preferably working on a feather on the outer surface of the standard.
A projecting bracket is screwed or otherwise secured on the top of the vertical
standard. This bracket carries a grooved pulley, round which is passed a rope or
wire-cord, the upper end of this rope being secured to an eye in the sliding lamp
bracket, and the other end of this rope is attached to a hand winding drum mounted
on a bracket secured on the socket to which the lower end of the vertical standard is
secured. The winding on or unwinding of the rope on this drum regulates the height
at which the sliding bracket and lamp are raised or lowered on the vertical standard,
and enables the lamp to be taken down to get cleaned and for starting the light. A
spiral vertical spring is fitted round the lower end of the vertical standard above its
carrying socket to act as a spring buffer or cushion for the sliding bracket in case the
raising and lowering rope should break. Wire rope-stays or braces, preferably three,
would be attached to the upper end of the bracket fixed on the top of the vertical
standard, and secured below to eyes secured to the top of the oil cistern at the outer
circumference to steady and give stability to the standard, these stays being tightened
up by swivel stentors or screw shackles. Flexible pipes or tubes, which may be made
of dermatine or gutta-percha, would be coupled to the oil and air branches at the top
of the moisture trap, where a regulating tap or valve would be fitted on each
pipe, to regulate the quantity of oil and air or steani supplied to the burner of
the lamp.
These oil and air conveying flexible pipes would be led to supply the burner,
and of sufficient length to extend with the lamp to the top of the vertical standard,
and would be coupled at their upper ends to the siphon or bent metallic pipes
which extend above the combustion chamber of the lamp on each side before being
jointed to the burner inlets, so as to heat the oil and air or steain before being
injected into the burner. Cocks or valves would preferably be fitted on these oil
and air or steam pipes at the burner, but need not be used except when starting
the light. The spray burner and combustion chamber of the lamp would be secured
portably on the movable bracket sliding on the vertical standard before described, the
burner being, preferably of the construction described in the Specification of my
Patent No. 610 Jany. 14 1887, and the combustion chamber as described in tlie
Specification of my Patent No. 5715 April 27 1886; but these improved fittings of
moisture trap and raising and lowering mechanism would be suitable for other portable
oil vessels and lamps.
Instead of carrying the lamp to slide on and be raised and lowered on a vertical
standard of a portable character, with flexible pipes conveying the oil and com-
pressed air or steam as described in the foregoing arrangement, I, by another
arrangement of my improvements, suitable where a wall or column is available and
specially adapted for ship-yards or boiler sheds, lead the oil and air or steam from
the oil cistern by means of two vertical metallic tubes extending preferably about
14 feet high up the side of the wall or column, and secured by brackets to the side
of the wall or column, the upper bracket to which these pipes are attached
constituting a stuffing-box coupling at each end for the swivelling knee joints of the
tubes leading to the lamp burner. The lamp would be hung or attached to tubes
preferably projecting horizontally out about 14 or 16 feet from the top of the vertical
tubes, and which convey the oil and air or steam to the lamp, being preferably coupled
to hent tubes or branches at their outer ends passing down past the flame and
combustion chamber before being secured at the burner, so as to heat the oil and air

page_text: or steam passing through these tubes. These projecting out tubes would be connected
at their inner ends to the said swivelling coupling joints by swivelling knee branches
at the top of the vertical pipes, and attached by cross braces and jam nuts at their
inner and outer ends, with a stay between these cross braces taken at an angle
bridgeways at the centre of the tubes, and fitted with a tightening up stentor screw
coupling or shackle. This construction of joint enables the projecting out oil and air
or steam tubes to be raised from a vertical position when lowered to clean and light
the lamp, to a horizontal position when the lamp is set to light the open surrounding
space. And this joint may be duplicated, or a universal joint made if the lamp is
desired to be swivolled or oscillated laterally or horizontally instead of vertically, either
instead of or in addition to being raised and lowered. The projecting out tubes and
lamp would be raised and lowered and held in position by means of a rope or wire
cord attached near their outer ends, and passed up at an angle to a grooved pulley
mounted on a bracket or support attached to the wall or column at a convenient
distance above the height of the lamp, the cord having a heavy weight to counter-
balance the weight of the lamp and tubes at its lower end near the ground, with a
band rope attached to it for pulling it and the lamp up or down; or the cord may be
wound on a hand drum mounted on a bracket secured to the lower part of the vertical
tubes equivalent to that on the vertical standard arrangement. And instead of
mounting the grooved pulley, round which the raising and lowering rope is passed,
on a bracket secured to a wall, a vertical rod or tube might be fitted at the centre of
the compound joint, having the grooved pulley mounted on its upper end round which
the rope can be passed.
The improved construction of compound swivel joint and tubes attached to the
burner, as herein described, is very suitable for being applied to oil and air or steam
pipes when these are used for injecting liquid or fluid fuel at the doors of steam
boiler furnaces in torpedo boats, where intense heat has to be generated quickly to
raise the steam, or where such fuel is to be used, so that the burner and tubes can
be quickly-swivelled out of the way when coal or coke fuel is to be used in the
ordinary manner.
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page_text: Improvements in and Connected with Appliances Applicable for
Lighting and Heating Purposes.
I, JAMES LYLE, of 6 Orchard Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement in
writing, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon; that is to say:-
This Invention has reference to new or improved constructions, and arrangements
and combinations of appliances, applicable for raising and lowering lamps in which oil
and compressed air or steam are used to produce a light for illuminating large
open spaces, such as ship-yards, boiler-sheds, docks, and similar places where workmen
are employed at night, and for separating water or moisture froin the compressed air
fed to such lamps; part of the improvements or fittings being applicable to steam-
boiler and other furnaces where oil and air or steam are used as liquid fuel. These
improvements will be simple in construction and give great facilities as compared with
the appliances heretofore in use.
And in order that my said invention, and the manner of performing or carrying.
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of Drawings, in which the same reference letters are
used to indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where shown. Figure 1 is an
elevation of my new or improved appliances, applicable for lighting and heating
purposes, showing a portable form of oil cistern Z, moisture trap A, and vertical
standard B on which the lamp L is raised and lowered, with fittings complete,
this standard and its stays and its lamp raising rope R being shown as broken away
at 1-1 to save space in the drawing. Figure 2 is a sectional elevation of my new
or improved trap A for being fitted above the oil cistern Z, to separate water or
moisture from the compressed air used in supplying the lamp L. Figure 3 is a
perspective elevation showing my new stationary arrangement of projecting out jib
tubes D', E', by which the lamp 1, is supported out from a wall W, and supplied
with oil and air or steam, and raised and lowered. And Figures 4 and 5 are a front
elevation and a sectional plan respectively of a furnace door M, and furnace N, showing
applied an arrangement of oil and air or steam pipes, to which are fitted my new.
compound swivelling joint F shown in position in front of the combustion chamber
and dotted-in in its swivelled-out position in Figure 5.
Referring first to Figures 1 and 2 of these Drawings; the nature and novelty of
my improvements,. under one self-contained and portable arrangement, consist all
as follows:-On the top of the oil cistern Z. Figure 1, which would preferably be
of a domed or curved shape, I secure by "flanges and bolts and nuts at Z', or
equivalent fastenings, a new or improved construction of vessel or trap A, for
separating water or moisture from the compressed air used in the lamps I, an

page_text: india-rubber ring = being preferably inserted between the top of the oil cistern Z
and the flanges of the moisture trap A. This moisture separating trap A, is formed
of a vertical domed shape on top with an inlet branch A at its side near the upper
end, to which is connected the pipe A" conveying the compressed air to the dome
vessel A for being conveyed to the lamp L and to the oil vessel Z below for forcing
up the oil to the lamp L as hereinafter described, this pipe A" being preferably
fitted with a regulating tap A. The compressed air passes into and deposits any
moisture in this separating trap vessel A and from thence passes through an outlet
branch at A2 in the upper end to the coupling branch A leading to the lamp L.
The oil is led up from the bottom of the cistern Z by the pipe a through the centre
of this moisture trap A to the top, where it is connected by a coupling to a discharge
branch a in the centre of the dome A, leading to the lamp L. An open ended
tube is fitted round this inner oil tube a, being secured to the top of the oil
cistern Z by screw jointing nuts a¹¹, and this tube a extends to near the upper part
of the trap A. The compressed air in the trap A passes down between this outer
tube and the inner tube a to the upper part of the oil cistern Zand forces the oil
up through the central oil tube to the lamp from the lower part of the cistern all as
indicated by the arrows in Figure 2. A short drawing-off tap a³ is fitted at the
lower end of the trap A for discharging from time to time the water or liquid deposited
by the compressed air. A vertical soèket B is secured above the oil cistern Z,
preferably by being cast on the side of the moisture trap A, and in this socket B is
inserted the lower end of a long vertical tube or rod standard B', preferably about
16 or 18 feet high, on which the lamp L is raised and lowered as will hereinafter be
described. A sliding bracket C carrying the lamp L portably secured thereto, is
fitted round this vertical standard B, and slides up and down on it; and a groove
at on the inner surface of the socket of the bracket C, works on a feather B² on
the outer surface of the standard B₁ to steady it. A projecting bracket B is screwed
or otherwise secured on the top of the vertical standard B. This bracket B carries
a grooved pulley B round which is passed a rope or wire-cord R the upper end of
this rope being secured to an eye in the sliding lamp bracket C, and the other end
of this ropo It is attached to a hand winding drum & mounted on a bracket secured
on the socket B to which the lower end of the vertical standard B' is secured. The
winding on or unwinding of the rope R on this drum bregulates the height at which
the sliding bracket C and lamp L are raised or lowered on the vertical standard B¹
and enables the lamp L to be taken down to get cleaned and for starting the light.
A spiral vertical spring 62 is fitted round the lower end of the vertical standard B¹
over the bracket 61 and above its carrying socket B to act as a spring buffer or
cushion for the sliding bracket C, in case the raising and lowering rope R should
break. Wire rope stays or braces preferably three, are attached to the upper end
of the bracket B fixed on the top of the vertical standard B', and secured below to
eyes 1, 2, secured to the top of the oil cistern Z at the outer circumference, to steady
and give stability to the standard B', these stays being tightened up by screw
shackles r. Flexible pipes or tubes A', a', which may be made of dermatine or
gutta-percha, or woodite, would be coupled to the oil and air branches a' and A³, at
the top of the moisture trap A, where a regulating tap or valve a*, A*, would be
fitted on each pipe at A to regulate the quantity of oil and air or steam supplied to
the burner of the lamp L. These oil and air conveying flexible pipes a¹, A, would
be led to supply the burner, and of sufficient length to extend with the lamp to the
top of the vertical standard B₁, and would be coupled at their upper ends to the
inverted siphon or bent metallic pipes d, e Figure 1, which extend above the com-
bustion chamber of the lamp L on each side before being jointed to the burner inlets,
so as to heat the oil and air or steam before being injected into the burner. Taps or
valves might also be fitted on these oil and air or steam pipes d, e, at the burner, but
need not be used except when starting the light. The spray burner and combustion
chamber of the lamp L would be secured portably on the movable bracket C sliding
on the vertical standard B₁ before described, the burner being preferably of the
construction described in the Specification of my Patent No. 610 Jany. 14 1887,

page_text: and the combustion chamber as described in the Specification of my Patent
No. 5715, April 27 1886; but these improved fittings of moisture trap A, and
raising and lowering mechanism would be suitable for other portable oil vessels
and lamps.
Instead of carrying the lamp L to slide on, and be raised and lowered on a vertical
standard B of a portable character, with flexible pipes a, A, conveying the oil and
compressed air or steam as described in the foregoing arrangement in Figure 1, I by
another arrangement of my improvements, shown in Figure 3 suitable where a
wall W or column is available and specially adapted for ship-yards or boiler sheds,
lead the oil and air from the dome A of the oil cistern Z to the taps d², e², of two
vertical metallic tubes D, E, which extend preferably about 14 feet high up the side
of the wall or column W, and secured by brackets at W, W, to the side of the wall
or column W, the upper bracket W2, to which these pipes D, E, are attached consti-
tuting a trunnion stuffing-box coupling F at each end for the swivelling knee
joints D, E, of the tubes, D, E, and D, E, leading to the lamp L', the con-
struction of this double stuffing-box joint bracket F being shown in Figures 4 and 5
as applied to a lamp or burner for a furnace door. The lamp L is in this arrange
ment hung or attached to the tubes D, E preferably projecting horizontally out
about 14 or 16 feet from the top of the vertical tubes D, E, and which convey the oil
and air to the burner L of the lamp being preferably coupled to bent tubes or
branches d¹, e Figure 3, at their outer ends passing down past the combustion
chamber before being secured at the burner, so as to heat the oil and air or steam
passing through these tubes. These projecting out tubes D', E', are connected at
their inner ends by swivelling knee branches D, E, to the stuffing box joints in the
bracket F at the top of the vertical pipes D, E, and attached by cross braces and jam
nuts at, at their inner and outer ends and in the centre at f2, with a stay f³,
between these cross braces taken at an angle bridgeways at the centre of the
tubes D¹ E over a centre stay at 2, and tightened up with a screw shackle at f.
This construction of stuffing box joint F enables the projecting out oil and air or
steam tubes D¹, E1, to be raised from a hanging vertical position when lowered to
clean and light the lamp L' to a horizontal position when the lamp L is set to light
the open surrounding space, as shown in this latter position in Figure 3. And this
joint may be duplicated, or a universal joint made if the lamp L, is desired to be
świvelled or oscillated laterally or horizontally instead of vertically, either instead of
or in addition to being raised and lowered. The projecting out tubes D', E¹, and
lamp L' would be raised and lowered and held in position by ineans of a rope or wire
cord R' attached to the lateral stay f¹, near their outer ends, and passed up at an
angle to a grooved pulley B³, mounted on a bracket B or support attached to the
wall or column W at a convenient distance above the height of the lamp L³, the
cord R' having a heavy weight R2 to counterbalance the weight of the lamp L' and jib
tubes D, E, at its lower end near the ground, with a hand rope attached to it for
pulling it and the lamp L up or down; or the cord R', may be wound on a hand
drum mounted on a bracket secured to the lower part of the vertical tubes, equivalent
to that b, b, on the vertical standard B' arrangement, shown in Figure 1. Instead
of mounting the grooved pulley B³, round which the raising and lowering rope R¹ is
passed, on a bracket B secured to the wall W, a vertical rod or tube might be fitted
up over the centre of the compound joint F'having the grooved pulley B³ mounted on
its upper end round which the rope R¹ can be passed.
The improved construction of compound swivel joint F and tubes D¹, E¹, attached
to the burner L', as herein described, is very suitable for being applied to oil and air
or steam branch pipes D', E' when these are used for injecting liquid or fluid fuel,
supplied from the dome A of a cistern Z, through the stationary branch taps d², e² to
a burner L² at the doors M of steam boiler or other furnaces N; as shown in Figures 4
and 5, in torpedo boats or other places where intense heat has to be generated quickly
to raise the steam, or where such fuel is to be used, so that the burner L' and
tubes D¹, E' can be quickly swivelled out of the way when coal or coke fuel is to be
used in the ordinary manner through the doors M.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
First. The construction, or general arrangement and combination of the parts of
appliances for raising and lowering lamps, and for separating water or moisture from
the compressed air fed to said lamps applicable for lighting and heating purposes,
substantially as herein described, in reference, to and shown in the accompanying
Drawings.
Second. The construction or arrangement and combination of the parts of a trap
for separating water or moisture from compressed air used in supplying lamps or
burners with oil or compressed air for lighting or heating purposes, substantially
as herein described in reference to and shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the
accompanying Drawings.
Third. The raising and lowering of a lamp on a vertical standard erected on the
top of a portable oil cistern, and supplying it with oil and compressed air or steam,
substantially as, and operated in the manner herein described, in reference to and
shown in Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings.
Fourth. The construction or arrangement and combination of the parts of vertical
and horizontal sets of tubes with duplex swivelling joint for conveying oil and
compressed air or steam to a lamp carried at the outer end of said tubes, and which
can be raised or lowered, substantially as and in the manner herein described in
reference to and shown in Figure 3 of the accompanying Drawings.
Fifth. The construction and use of compound swivelling coupling joints, and
tubes for supplying oil and compressed air or steam to a burner at the front of
furnaces, substantially as herein described, in reference to and shown in Figures 4
and 5 of the accompanying Drawings.