Improvements in and for Connecting Together Lamps and Vaporizers.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1893-Accepted, 21st Oct., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and for Connecting Together Lamps and
Vaporizers.
We, ALFRED SHUTTLEWORTH and FRANK SHUTTLEWORTH, both of the
Stamp End Works, Lincoln, Members of the Firm of Clayton & Shuttleworth,
Engineers, and WALTER HENRY TYRRELL and PERCY DEED, both of the same
address, Draughtsmen, in the employ of the said firm, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has reference to furnace lamps and vaporizers to be heated by
such lamps and which are suitable for use in connection with oil and gas engines.
The object of the invention is to provide simple and efficient means of connecting
the vaporizer to the lamp so that the vaporizer may be heated by the flame issuing
from the lamp.
For this purpose the cone or casing of the burner is former or provided with an
annular seat having the form of a hollow frustum of a cone and the vaporizer,
which may he of known kind, is constructed with a flue or passage having its lower
end so formed as to fit over and on to the annular seat above referred to. Or the
annular seat of the burner cone or casing may be internal instead of external and
the vaporizer may be constructed with a projection having the form of a hollow
truncated cone adapted to fit within the annulus on the burner cone or casing and to
fit on to the inner face thereof constituting the seat. For connecting the vaporizer
to the lamp after the vaporizer has been placed in position upon the supporting
seat the following arrangement is employed :-The vaporizer is formed with lugs
through which pins pass that also pass through eyes at the upper ends of rods the
lower ends of which are bent at right angles or thereabout so as to form straight
hooks. On the lamp body there are other lugs with transverse pins so arranged
that the hooks may be caused to engage therewith and by reason of the hooks
being straight they will after being sprung into position over the pins hold the
vaporizer securely down on to the seat and not be liable to become accidentally
unfastened.
Referring to the accompanying illustrative drawing which shows in vertical
section a furnace lamp and vaporizer both of known construction and having the
present invention applied thereto.
a is the lamp body; the burner cone or casing; e the annular seat for sup-
porting the vaporizer, this seat in the example illustrated forming a frustum of a
hollow cone; d is the vaporizer; e the flue or passage therein having its lower
portion e' made of gradually increasing diameter as it proceeds downward so as to
fit accurately upon the annular seat c. Obviously as already stated the arrange-
ment might be reversed the vaporizer being constructed with a hollow male part
affording a conical surface like c and the lamp with a female part affording a
surface like that of e'. are lugs on the vaporizer; y g' arc rods having eyes
at their upper ends; are pins that pass through the lugs and eyes; the lower
ends g of the rods g glare bent at right angles to form hooks as shown; ii are
lugs on the lamp body a, and k k are transverse pins held in the said lugs. The
parts g of the rods 9 g' engage with those portions of the pins which are
between the two lugs constituting each pair.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. Providing at the upper part of the lamp a conical seat to receive a corre-
spondingly formed surface in or on the vaporizer and connecting the body of the

page_text: vaporizer with the body of the lamp by rods adapted to hold the vaporizer in
contact with the seat provided for it substantially as described.
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2. For supporting and connecting a vaporizer to a lamp the combination and
arrangement of parts described and shown.
Dated this 20th day of September 1893
ALFRED SHUTTLEWORTH.
FRANK SHUTTLEWORTH.
WALTER HENRY TYRRELL.
PERCY DEED.
W. Lloyd Wise,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.