Improvements in Regulators for Gas Light Burners.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Feb., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 9th May, 1899-Accepted, 24th June, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Regulators for Gas Light Burners.
I, OTTO LAUCKNER, of 80, Watling Street, London, in the County of Middlesex,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention communicated to me
by Max Lauckner, of Dresden, in the Kingdom of Saxony, Merchant to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in "regulators" for gas light burners
and is most particularly applicable to those known as the incandescent gas light
burners, and has for object the saving of gas and improvement in the brilliancy of
same and also the saving of the wear and tear in the mantles.
It is well known that incandescent light burners give a better light when not
fully turned on and the mantles frequently become blackened, break, or are other-
wise injured through the too free passage of gas, and consequently give an inferior
light. These defects are obviated by my invention and there is a great saving
of gas and costs of mantles by their being kept clean in consequence of regulating
the supply of gas to the burner.
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In carrying my invention into practice, I affix to the ordinary gas burner, by
means of a male and female thread or screw, a piece of tubing of any suitable
material which is provided with a screwthreaded hole, into which is passed the
'regulating screw"
The "regulating screw" is made with a hole therethrough by which means the
gas passes to the burner.
By turning this regulating screw to the right or left as may be required the
pressure of gas can be adjusted to a minimum.
Doted thin 10th
WL 1000
Improvements in Regulators for Gas Light Burners.
I, OTTO LAUCKNER, of 80, Watling Street, London, in the County of Middlesex,
Merchant (a communication to me by Max Lauckner, of Dresden, in the Kingdom
of Saxony, Merchant), 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 relates to improvements in regulators for gas light burners and
is particularly applicable to those known as incandescent gas light burners, and
has for object the saving of gas and improvement in the brilliancy of same and
also saving of wear and tear in the mantles.

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It is well known that incandescent gas light burners give a better light when not
fully turned on" and that, without means for regulating the flow of the gas,
the mantles frequently become blackened, break or are otherwise injured by the
too free or excessive supply of gas and consequently an inferior lighting effect
is given.
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These defects are obviated by my invention and there is a great saving of
cost of mantles by their being kept clean and unfractured by regulating the supply
of gas to the burner.
In carrying my invention into practice I attix to the ordinary gas burner by
means of male or female thread or screw a piece of tubing of any suitable material,
which piece of tube is provided with a screw threaded transverse hole therethrough
into which is passed the stem of the regulating screw. This said regulating screw
stem is made with a hole therethrough, so providing a passage way for the gas when
said screw stem has been screwed in, so as to correspond with the main gas passage
of the burner, but so as to reduce or increase the passage way as circumstance will
require or occasion direct.
In the drawings annexed hereto Fig. 1 is elevational side view of the gas
regulator; divece Fig. 2 is a vertical section with regulating screw detached.
Similar letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
a, is the piece of tube forming the main portion of the device; a¹, is the screw
threaded end (here shown as a female screw) for attachment means to the gas supply
pipe, chandelier, or other gas conduit; is the mean lead through for the gas;
is an attachment thread for application of the gas burner; at is a transverse
boring of the tubular piece a, and into this is or are to be screwed the regulating
screw or screws b.
The screw of Fig. 1 is shown with a transverse hole 61 therethrough, which
will, in combination with the gas jet way a2 and when the screw b has been
properly adjusted, serve to set and regulate the free passage for the gas.
According to a further modification of this device the hole at may be turned
conical to receive and seat a plug similar to an ordinary gas cock, which said
plug may have a transverse hole corresponding to that of the regulating screw bb¹.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
In a regulator for gas light burners as set forth, the combination of the tubular
piece a, the gas lead a with the transverse boring, serving to receive the regulat-
ing screw plug b constructed and operating as and for the purpose herein set forth
and shown by the respective figures of the drawings.