Improvements in Smoke Consumers for Glass Globes and the like for Gas and Oil Lights and Lamps.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 15th May, 1894-Accepted, 16th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Smoke Consumers for Glass Globes and the like
for Gas and Oil Lights and Lamps.
I, BENJAMIN RICHARDSON, of Wordsley Flint Glass Works, Wordsley, near
Stourbridge, Staffordshire, Glass Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to smoke consumers for glass globes and the like
such as glass cups and glass shades for gas and oil lights and lamps and the object
of this invention is to provide a loose cover or smoke consumer made of glass,
pottery ware, metal or other suitable material to fit into or upon the top of the
globe or cup or shade the base of the said smoke consumer being constructed as
berein described so as to allow the heated air to escape.
In carrying out this invention as applied for instance to an ordinary so called
"comet" glass globe for a gaslight I make the smoke consumer in the form of a
loose cover of glass, pottery ware, metal or other suitable material of a hollow
domed or other suitable shape rather larger in diameter than the hole in the top of
the globe. The said smoke consumer has an inwardly projecting flange which
rests upon the top of the globe, and the flange has a downwardly projecting neck
which fits into the hole in the top of the globe and prevents the cover falling off
the globe. In order to allow the heated air to escape between the top of the globe
and the base of the cover, the flange and neck of the latter are or one of them is or
the whole of the cover is moulded in the form of flutings or grooves which serve as
outlets for the heated air. These flutings or grooves may be of various forms such
as rounded, hollowed, V shaped or of any other suitable form.
Dated this 18th day of August 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COME LEIE SIECITICATION.
Improvements in Smoke Consumers for Glass Globes and the like
for Gas and Oil Lights and Lamps.
I, BENJAMIN RICHARDSON, of Wordsley Flint Glass Works, Wordsley, near
Stourbridge, Staffordshire, Glass Manufacturer, 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 smoke consumers for glass globes and the like
such as glass cups and glass shades for gas and oil lights and lamps and the object
of this invention is to provide a loose cover or smoke consumer made of glass,
pottery ware, metal or other suitable material to fit into or upon the top of the
globe or cup or shade the base of the said smoke consumer being constructed as
herein described so as to allow of the heated air to escape.
In carrying out this invention as applied for instance to an ordinary so called
"comet "glass globe for a gaslight I make the smoke consumer in the form of a
loose cover preferably made of glass, or the said smoke consumer may be made of
pottery ware, metal or other suitable material, of a hollow domed or other suitable
shape rather larger in diameter than the hole in the top of the globe. The said

page_text: smoke consumer has an inwardly projecting flange which rests upon the top of the
globe, and the flange has a downwardly projecting neck which fits into the hole in
the top of the globe and prevents the cover falling off the globe. In order to
allow the heated air to escape between the top of the globe and the base of the
cover, the flange and neck of the latter are or one of them is or the whole of the
cover is moulded in the form of flutings or grooves which serve as outlets for
the heated air. These flutings or grooves may be of various forms such as rounded,
hollowed, V shaped or of any other suitable form.
The accompanying sheets of drawings illustrate various forms of the said smoke
consumers constructed in accordance with this invention. The same letters of
reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the figures.
A is the smoke consumer and B is an ordinary glass globe with which the smoke.
consumer is used. In the smoke consumer A shewn in side elevation by Fig. 1, in
inverted plan by Fig. 2 and in sectional elevation by Fig. 3 the inwardly projecting
flange c which rests on the top of the globe B is moulded in the form of rounded
flutings and this form is continued on to the neck d of the smoke consumer which
as shewn more clearly by Fig. 2 is made of a correspondingly rounded fluted form.
It will be seen that the neck d taking into the hole in the top of the globe B
prevents the smoke consumer or cover A from falling off the globe and the flutings
or grooves in the flange cand neck d allow the heated air to escape, the sulphurated
carbon smoke and gas being consumed in the hollow dome shaped part A when the
same is heated.
Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 illustrate various shapes among others in which
the said flutings can be made. For instance the flutings in the flange c and neck d
may be made as rounded hollows, as in the smoke consumer shewn in elevation by
Fig. 4 and in inverted plan by Fig. 5. The said hollow flutings in the flange c
and neck d may be alternately rounded and V shaped as shewn in elevation Fig. 6
and in inverted plan Fig. 7; or the said flutings may be all V shaped as in the
smoke consumer shewn in elevation by Fig. 8 and in inverted plan by Fig. 9; or
the said flutings may be alternately rounded and V shaped as shewn in elevation
by Fig. 10 and in inverted plan by Fig. 11. It will be evident that the flutings of
the flange c and neck d may be made of other forms than those shewn without
departing from the nature of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The manufacture use and sale of smoke consumers, for glass globes and the like,
for gas and oil lights and lamps, of a hollow form with an inwardly projecting
flange to rest upon the top of the globe or the like and a downwardly projecting
neck to fit loosely within the same and keep the smoke consumer in position, the
said flange and neck or one of them being fluted or grooved to allow of the escape
of the heated air, all substantially as herein before described with reference to
Figs. 1 to 11 both inclusive of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 12th day of May 1894
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.