Improvements in or relating to Anti-vibratory Supports for Incandescent Gas or Oil Burners
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
"Improvements in or relating to Anti-vibratory Supports for
Incandescent Gas or Oil Burners."
1, ARTHUR OTTO SACHSE, of 111 Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has been devised to provide certain improvements in mech-
anisms for supporting the burner or mantle of that class of lighting appliance
known as an incandescent gas burner, and has also application to the burners of
petroleum or other oil or vapour lamps wherein a fragile incandescent mantle
is employed. The invention may be described as follows:
Upon an outer vertical cylinder is superimposed the support from which the
fragile mantle depends, or alternatively the combustion portion of the burner is
set upon the said outer cylinder and in its turn supports the mantle by a rod in
the usual way. In the interior of the outer vertical cylinder is set a vertical
spiral spring, the top of which preferably extends-slightly-in diameter, whilst
the bottom is arranged in volute form its diameter increasing to meet the inside
of the outer cylinder, and held firmly in position by the said outer cylinder.
The main body of the spring is arranged so that it coils around the Bunsen
tube of the burner, the end of the said Bunsen tube being so arranged that the
mixed gases therein may flow freely and directly into the combustion portion
of the burner. Where a top perforated basket is used as a combustion or heating
chamber, I arrange the Bunsen tube so as to slightly enter such chamber, and
fit thereon a washer or apron of non-combustible material of a woolly or soft
construction, such as thin soft asbestos cloth, of sufficient width or thickness to
close or cover over an annular aperture between the Bunsen tube and the hole
The outer cylinder or case is preferably
in the plate through which it enters.
made sufficiently long to reach down so as to surround the air holes of the
Bunsen, sufficient annular area being provided so that no obstruction to the
entrance of the air can take place.
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BOULT & WADE
Agents for the Applicant

page_text: 86 Improvements in or relating to Anti-Vibratory Supports for
Incandescent Gas or Oil Burners and Mantles."
I, ARTHUR OTTO SACHSE, 111 Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
now of Widows Fund Building, corner of Collins and William Streets, Mel-
bourne, Victoria Civil Engineer, 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 been devised to provide certain improvements in mech-
anism for supporting the burner or mantle of that class of lighting appliance
known as an incandescent gas burner, and has also application to the burners of
petroleum or other oil or vapour lamps wherein a fragile incandescent mantle
is employed. The invention may be described as follows:-
-
Upon an outer vertical cylinder is superimposed the support from which the
fragile mantle depends, or alternatively the combustion portion of the burner is
set upon the said outer cylinder and in its turn supports the mantle by a rod in
the usual way. In the interior of the outer vertical cylinder is set a vertical
spiral spring, the top of which preferably extends-slightly-in diameter, whilst
the bottom is arranged in volute form its diameter increasing to meet the inside
of the outer cylinder, and held firmly in position by the said outer cylinder.
The main body of the spring is arranged so that it coils around the Bunsen
tube of the burner, the end of the said Bunsen tube being so arranged that the
mixed gases therein may flow freely and directly into the combustion portion
of the burner. Where a top perforated basket is used as a combustion or heating
chamber, I arrange the Bunsen tube so as to slightly enter such chamber, and
fit thereon a washer or apron of non-combustible material of a woolly or soft
construction, such as thin soft asbestos cloth, of sufficient width or thickness to
close or cover over an annular aperture between the Bunsen tube and the hole
in the plate through which it enters. The outer cylinder or case is preferably
made sufficiently long to reach down so as to surround the air holes of the
Bunsen, sufficient annular area being provided so that no obstruction to the
entrance of the air can take place.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a central vertical section through one construction of burner
according to this invention: and
Figure 2 is a plan of the same, the parts above the line 2-2 of Figure 1 being
removed.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
A is a heavy body supporting a conical perforated basket B, which forms a
combustion or heating chamber and carries at its upper extremity a fork (
and mantle D. The body A is formed with a hole which extends through it
centrally and accommodates a sleeve or tube E: this tube is not rigidly attached
to the body A but is enveloped by a spiral spring F, the ends of which are of
such a diameter that they grip the interior of the body A and thus elastically con-
nect it with the tube E. The tube E passes through the upper portion of the
body A and extends slightly into the combustion or heating chamber B. A
washer or ring G of soft non-combustible material is held by a ring G₁ at the
top of the body A so that it closes or covers the opening through which the tube E
passes.
A Bunsen burner comprising a tube H provided with an inlet H for gas, and
openings H for the admission of air fits within the tube E. It is to be noticed
that the bottom part of the body A extends below the openings Hs for the ad-

page_text: mission of air into the Bunsen burner, and is recessed to allow free ingress of air
to the burner. A casing J screws upon the upper portion of the body A and
encloses the combustion or heating chamber B.
The spring F could if desired be attached to the Bunsen burner tube H, the
sleeve E being dispensed with. It is, however, convenient to have the sleeve E
and such sleeve is to be looked upon as being a portion of the Bunsen burner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be under-
stood that I am aware that it has been proposed to employ in anti-vibratory
supports for incandescent gas burners, an outer vertical cylinder mounted on a
spring, the bottom of which cylinder extends below the air holes in the Bunsen
tube; and also that I am aware of the Specification of Clay's Patent No. 17679
dated 28th July 1897, and claim nothing described and claimed therein; but
I declare that what I claim is:
In an anti-vibratory support for an incandescent burner the combination with
a Bunsen tube and a heavy body surrounding it of a ring G of soft non-com-
bustible material between the tube and the body substantially as described.
T... 1000
Dand
THIS
14th day of July
BOULT & WADE
Agents for the Applicant.