Burning Hydrocarbons.
Year: 1885

page_text: Burning Hydrocarbons.
We, CHARLES BARTON, of The Hollies, Brandon, in the County of Warwick,
Gentleman, ALEXANDER ROTHERHAM, of Coundon Hall, in the said County,
Gentleman, and THE BARTON BURNER COMPANY, Limited, whose registered office
is at 111 Little Park Street, in the City of Coventry, do hereby declare the
nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO LAMPS OR
STOVES FOR BURNING HYDROCARBONS," to be as follows:-
In the specification of Letters Patent 7965 of 1884, acquired by us, there is
described a tube to hold a wick for lamps, such tube being flattened out at its top
and dished to form a burner.
Letters Patent 12,822 of 1884 granted to the aforesaid Charles Barton claim a
hydrocarbon burner consisting of an outer vitreous or like tube with a dished or
flattened top, a smaller inner igniting vitreous or like tube and a porous filling or
packing between the tubes. This latter arrangement burns the oil or spirit in a
vaporised state.
Such peculiarly formed wick tube, or in the latter case burner-tube, gives a
brilliant light without smoke and with a moderate consumption of oil or spirit.
Our present invention is designed to apply auch improved burner or lighting
chamber to all descriptions of lamps or stoves burning hydrocarbons or spirits.
In applying our invention advantageously to a wick tube not communicating
with oil or spirit contained in a metal or other reservoir, we fit a vitreous,
porcelain, or metallic outer tube with its top formed as referred to in the previously
cited specifications such tube being so placed as to surround the whole or upper
part of the ordinary wick tube which projects to a suitable height into the
chamber formed on the flattened outer tube.
A space is left between this outer tube and the said wick tube which space is
filled to a suitable height with Plaster of Paris or other non-conductor to prevent
or lessen the transmission of heat from the burner to the metal wick tube or the
reservoir and to prevent any oil, spirit, or gas from descending between the outer
and inner tubes. Suitable apertures may be made if desired to admit of a free
transmission of air to the flame.

page_text: The light may be regulated by raising or lowering the wick by the usual rack
wheel or other suitable device and such wick may be made round or flat as
desired.
By this arrangement the inner wick tube is in a measure isolated from the
burner or outer tube and the possibility of flashing the oil or spirit reduced to a
minimum.
The wick is lighted as usual; the flame then heats the chamber and gives a
larger and more brilliant light than if the improved arrangement were not applied,
and useful features of the invention are that it can be applied to all descriptions of
lamps as before specified at very small cost and that when so applied the flame is
less liable to be extinguished by currents of air, vibration, shock, or otherwise.
Dated this 15th day of June 1885.

page_text: The wick may be raised and lowered by the usual rack wheel K or other
equivalent device to regulate the height of the flame and may be clamped in
position by set-screw L or otherwise.
We find that with the outer tube A the wick lasts very much longer than with
the ordinary wick tube alone and seldom requires readjustment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
1st The improved arrangement of lamp-burner hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2nd The herein before described combination of the short outer tube A shaped as
described, with the ordinary wick tube C and its rack-wheel K.
POPPLEWELL, COLTON & Co.,
Agents for Applicants.