IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO GAS FITTINGS, READING LAMPS, AND SHADES FOR GAS AND OTHER LIGHTS, AND FOR SUPPLYING GAS TO STOVES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John James Royle, of 71, Market Street, Manchester,
Mechanical Engineer, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE
TO GAS FITTINGS, READING LAMPS, AND SHADES FOR GAS AND OTHER
LIGHTS, AND FOR SUPPLYING GAS TO STOVES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John James Royle at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th December 1881.
JOHN JAMES ROYLE, of 71 Market Street, Manchester, Mechanical Engineer,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO GAS FITTINGS READING LAMPS AND
SHADES FOR GAS AND OTHER LIGHTS AND FOR SUPPLYING GAS TO STOVES AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
The first part of this Invention relates to a removable fitting capable of being
suspended from the burner of a gas chandelier bracket or other gas fitting so as to
bring down the lighted burner nearer to the table or floor and which burner being
surrounded by a suitable shade or reflector thus diffuses the light where it is most
required and dispenses with the necessity of having so many lights burning in the
apartment at the same time. One mode of carrying out my Invention is to
utilise my improved connection protected by Letters Patent No. 2350 and dated
June 13th 1879 for the purpose of making the temporary connection required to
the gas burner and branching from this joint I arrange a pipe which is turned
downward and is by preference connected at a lower point with three tubular
arms or branches which constitute not only the passage for the gas to the burner
but also the support for the shade or reflector. In this manner I am enabled to
make a connection to the gas-burner without removing the gas globe as the upper
part of the apparatus is capable of being inserted betwixt the gallery and the
globe and the joint being then drawn over the burner the apparatus becomes
suspended and a perfectly gas tight joint is effected. I wish it to be understood
that any other suitable joint might be substituted and applied to my improved

page_text: fitting for connecting the apparatus to the burner. It will be readily apparent
that the same description of fitting is suitable for supporting a candle or other
lamp or light or for making a connection to a gas fitting without necessarily
removing the globe for supplying gas to reading lamps stoves and for other
purposes and also that the fitting may be rendered adjustable in height by being
made telescopical and fitted with a sliding joint or it may be suspended by other
means than those herein before described and the connection with the gas supply
be effected by a length of flexible tubing and my improved gas joint the subject
of Letters Patent No. 2350 as aforesaid. Instead of the fitting being detachable
it may form a part of the chandelier or other gas fitting and be capable of
adjustment in height by means of a telescopic or cork slide.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John James Royle in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th June 1882.
JOHN JAMES ROYLE of 71 Market Street Manchester Mechanical Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO GAS FITTINGS, READING LAMPS AND
SHADES FOR GAS AND OTHER LIGHTS AND FOR SUPPLYING GAS TO STOVES AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
The first part of this Invention relates to a removable fitting capable of being
suspended from the burner of a gas chandelier bracket or other gas fitting so as to
bring down the lighted burner nearer to the table or floor and which burner being
surrounded by a suitable shade or reflector thus diffuses the light where it is most
required and dispenses with the necessity of having so many lights burning in tho
apartment at the same time. One mode of carrying out my Invention is to
utilise my improved connection protected by Letters Patent No. 2350 and dated
June 13th 1879 for the purpose of making the temporary connection required to
the gas burner and branching from this joint I arrange a pipe which is turned
downwards and is by preference connected at a lower point with tubular arms or
branches which constitute not only the passage for the gas but also the support
for the shade or reflector.
In Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing, A is my Patent union or connection
seen also in section (full size) in Figure 2 and as applied to a gas burner in Figure 3.
This union A consists as described in my former Specification of a metallic box or
chamber enclosing at its mouth or opening an indiarubber lip ring a which in
this case fits on to the burner b and makes a gas-tight connection therewith.
Branching from this union A I arrange a pipe B which is turned downward and is
by preference connected at a lower point with three tubular arms or branches C
which constitute not only the passage for the gas to the burner D (which being
ignited gives the illuminating flame) but also the support for the shade or reflector E
formed of card-board, sheet metal, glass or other suitable material.
In Figure 4 I illustrate another form of my Invention which only differs from
Fig. 1 in the number of the arms or branches C, in the shape of the shade or
reflector and in the pipe B being arranged to slide telescopically inside the larger
tube B' (through the stuffing box B) and thus afford facility for adjusting the
height of the light from the table or floor. In this manner I am enabled to mako
a connection to the gas-burner without removing the gas globe as the upper part
or union A of the apparatus is capable of being inserted between the gallery and
the globe as seen in Figs. 3 and 4 and the union A being then drawn down over
the burner the apparatus becomes suspended and a perfectly gas tight joint is
effected.
I wish it to be understood that any other suitable joint might be substituted and
applied to my improved fitting for connecting the apparatus to the burner. It
will be readily apparent that the same description of fitting is suitable for
supporting a candle or other lamp or light from an existing gas-fitting say for
instance an oil lamp in which the reservoir of oil would be situated at a point
above the junction of the tubular arms C with the pipe B and that one or more
of the tubular arms C could form the passage of the oil down to the wick or burner
of the lamp which would in this case be substituted for the gas-burner D; or an
electric light either alone or in combination with gas and with or without a globo
or shade could be supported in a similar manner.
In Figure 5 I illustrate a modification of my present Invention as applicable to

page_text: making a connection to the burner of a gas-fitting without necessarily removing
the globe for supplying gas to reading-lamps, stoves and for other lighting or
heating purposes, by means of an india-rubber or other flexible tube affixed in the
ordinary manner to the tail-piece F.
In Figures 6 and 7 1 illustrate a front and side view respectively of a further
modification of my Invention applied to the purpose of supporting and heating a
vessel H containing water or other liquid or food.-and beneath which is a gas-
burner J which being lighted thus constitutes a food-warming apparatus suitable
specially for infants or invalids' food or which vessel H may partake of the form of
a kettle or other like contrivance or may be used for heating glue-kettles and for
other analogous purposes.
In this arrangement it will be obvious that when the
vessel H is removed (by lifting it out of the supporting platform I) the gas-
burner J could be used for illuminating purposes whilst being turned down such
burner serves the purpose of a night light and constitutes an adjustable means of
keeping the contents of the vessel H at any desired temperature.
In Figure 8 I represent my Invention as applied to a gas-pressure gauge for
indicating the pressure of gas and consisting of the union A with the pipe L
connecting the same with the ordinary glass U tube, M and thus affording a ready
means of temporarily connecting such gauge to any gas-burner (without necessarily
removing-the-globe)-and-so-to ascertain the pressure of the gas supply.
I would remark in conclusion that in my Provisional Specification-I-mentioned
iny Invention as being partly applicable to forming a permanent part of a
chandelier or other gas litting and I then had in view the application of a gas-
burner and reflector or shade carried similarly to those represented in Figures 1 and 4
and so fitted to the gas-fitting as to be capable of adjustment in height by means
of a telescopic or cork slide but I have since the date of my Provisional
Specification learnt that such a combination is not new and therefore I hereby
disclaim the same.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
Invention together with the best methods with which I am acquainted for carrying
the same into practical effect I wish it to be distinctly understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details, relative proportions or dimensions of the
various parts of the improved apparatus herein before described and illustrated on
the accompanying Drawing as the same may be considerably varied without
departing from the Invention but what I claim is
1st. The combination of my improved union forming the subject matter of
Letters Patent No. 2350 A.D. 1879 or other suitable joint with the apparatus
herein before described for connecting and bringing down or suspending a light
from the burner of an existing gas-fitting nearer to the table or floor substantially
as and for the purposes herein before described and illustrated on the accompanying
Drawing.
2nd. The adaptation of my improved union as aforesaid to the purpose of
connecting gas pressure gauges, india-rubber or other flexible tubing to gas-burners
without necessarily removing the globe from the gas-fitting substantially as and
for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying
Drawing.
In witness whereof I the said John James Royle have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Twelth day of June in the year of our Lord 1882.