IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING AND CONSUMING GAS
Year: 1840

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
WAGSTAFF SMITH, of Leamington, Iron Founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Ninth day of June, in the third year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Samuel Wagstaff Smith, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Samuel Wagstaff Smith, my exors, admiors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Wagstaff Smith, my exors,
admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING AND CONSUMING GAS; " in which said Letters Patent
is containined a proviso that I, the said Samuel Wagstaff Smith, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of my Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said.
Samuel Wagstaff Smith, do hereby declare that the nature of iny Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described

page_text: and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had
to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon (that is to say) :-
My Invention relates to a mode of constructing and applying apparatus
for supplying and consuming gas by burners, whereby the gas in its progress
to be consumed is heated by the flames of gas produced by the burners to which
the supply is made. And in order to give the best information in my power
that my Invention may be most fully understood and readily carried into effect,
I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents a front view of an Argand gas burner and apparatus,
constructed according to my Invention. Figure 2 is a side view thereof.
Figure 3 representing a plan of part of the apparatus.
ais au Argand gas
burner of the ordinary construction. bis the supply pipe, which in place of
proceeding directly to the burner is caused to ascend up to the point c, where
it opens into a circular ring or tube d; from thence a tube e descends to the
burner, as is clearly shewn in the Drawings, and the direction taken by the
gas is indicated by the arrows; and it will be evident that the gas, by the time
it arrives in the burner, will be highly heated by the flame of the burner to
which the supply of gas is being made, and the result will be a much more
advantageous consuming of a given quantity of gas; for it will be found that
a less quantity of gas consumed by a burner when the gas is in a beated state
will give an equal light to that which would be obtained from a larger quantity
of gas consumed in the same time by a similar sized burner, according to the
ordinary means of consuming gas. Figure 4 shows a side view of a burner,
with my apparatus applied thereto; and Figure 5 shews a plan of part of the
apparatus applied thereto for supplying and consuming gas, a being an
ordinary batwing burner. 6 is the supply pipe, which in place of being con-
nected directly to the burner, is. conducted up to the point c into the bent
tubed; from thence a tube e descends, and is connected to the burner a, and
the arrows point out the direction taken by the gas, by tracing which it will
be evident that gas will be heated by the flame of the burner a, and the gas
coming to such burner will be highly heated. I would remark, that the
object of the Invention being to heat the gas by the flame of the burner by
which it is to be burned, and thus consume gas previously raised to a high
temperature, the apparatus may be varied in shape and construction, and
made in a variety of forms. I do not therefore confine myself to the form of
the e apparatus shewn and described, so long as the mode of supplying and con-

page_text: suming heated gas be retained. And I have, in Figures 7 and 8, shewn a
somewhat different arrangement of apparatus for a batwing burner, in order
to shew that very material difference in the appearance of the apparatus may be
made, and yet retain the same mode of applying the apparatus to gas burners,
in order that the gas supplied thereto may be supplied and consumed in a
heated stated, the heat being obtained by the flames so supplied. The
apparatus shewn at Figures 7 and 8 being marked with the same letters of
reference as used in the previous Figures, and as the arrows point out the
course of the gas, no further description thereof will be required.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim as my
Invention is, the mode of constructing and applying apparatus to burners,
whereby gas is supplied thereto and consumed thereby in a heated state, such
heating of the gas being caused by the flames of the burners so supplied.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Wagstaff Smith, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of Decembor, One thousand
aight hundred and farts