Anti-vibratory Supports for Incandescent Gas Burners or Clusters of Gas Burners and Gas Supplies thereto.
Year: 1897

page_text: Anti-vibratory Supports for Incandescent Gas Burners or Clusters
of Gas Burners and Gas Supplies thereto.
I, JAMES ELDRIDGE, of The Gas Works, Oxford, Gas Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say:
In connection with the use of a burner or cluster of burners for incandescent
gas lighting much loss is occasioned by jerky or vibratory movements being
transmitted to the burner and mantle or incandescent article resulting in the
damage and eventual destruction of the said mantle or incandescent article. To
obviate this difficulty I interpose a spring between the parts forming the said
burner or cluster of burners for the purposes of support and antivibratory effect.
I then supply the necessary gas through a tube or tubes of rubber, flexible metal
or other flexible material.
The invention consists of an arrangement of two elbows tees or other suitable
fittings (one of which may be connected to the gas supply pipe and the other to
the burner or cluster of burners) connected by a bent or coiled length of material
acting as a spring and support, or the elbows, tees or fittings may be connected
by two or more bent or coiled lengths of material acting as and forming one
spring and support. Or one of the tees elbows or fittings may be connected to the
burner or cluster of burners and the connecting resilient length or lengths of
material may be fixed in any position with or without the second elbow tee or
fitting to give the requisite support, as for example to the column of a street
lantern or to a wall or other suitable place, so that the spring may be either in
tension or compression. The gas supply is conducted through a tube or tubes
formed of flexible material either metallic or otherwise, or through flexible tube
for part of the distance and stiff tube for the remainder of the distance as may be
desirable or convenient
The supply may be taken from one of the elbows tees, or fittings, and led in
any convenient manner to the other tee or fitting or may be carried from the supply
pipe or standpipe by flexible tube.
By a simple bending and lengthening or shortening the ends of the coils the
spring may be placed below, partially or wholly above, at the side of or in any
position relative to the burner or burners. The burner or cluster is thus carried
and supported from one two or more points by a spring or support of anti-
vibratory character, and its gas supply maintained without transferring shocks
and movements to the said burner or cluster.
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page_text: Anti-vibratory Supports for Incandescent Gas Burners or Clusters
of Gas Burners and Gas Supplies thereto.
I, JAMES ELDRIDGE, of The Gas Works, Oxford, Gas Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement; —
This invention relates to improvements in that class of anti-vibration devices
for incandescent gas burners in which the burner is supported by a spring and the
gas is supplied by a flexible tube, and the object of the invention is to provide
an arrangement that will effectually check the vibration and at the same time
afford a steady support for the burner.
For this purpose I employ two tees or other suitable fittings one of which is
adapted to be connected to the gas supply pipe or other convenient support and
the other fitting is adapted to support the burner. These two fittings are con-
nected by two springs coiled together in such a way that the burner fitting is
supported by them on two opposite sides. The burner fitting is connected to
the other fitting or to the gas supply pipe by a flexible tube.
To fully describe my invention, reference is made to the accompanying sheet
of drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a side elevation of my improved anti-vibrator with a
burner thereon.
Figure 2, is a plan view of the same without the burner.
Figure 3, is a side view at right angles to that shown in Figure 1 also without
the burner.
The lower tee A is adapted to be screwed on to the gas service pipe and a wire B
is soldered or otherwise fixed in the arm A2 and a similar wire C is fixed in the
other arm A³. The wires B and C extend out a suitable distance, they are then
bent upwards at 132 and O2, then coiled in a helical form 133 and C3 and are finally
bent radially inwards as shown by B and C and their ends are secured to the
ms of the upper tee 12 to which the burner is secured. The curved gas
tube E fixed to the tee A is connected by the piece of flexible tube F to the
curved gas tube G connected to the tee D2. Flexible metallic tube is preferably
used instead of india rubber tube.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
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The combination with two fittings coupled together by flexible tubing of twe
springs coiled together helically and arranged to support the burner fitting at tw
opposite sides, substantially as herein shown and described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
This 25th dow of Santambor 1898