Improvements in Gas Regulators Admitting Gas to Gas Engines, Meters, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 18th May, 1892-Accepted, 9th July, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gas Regulators Admitting Gas to Gas Engines,
Meters, and the like.
A communication by CHARLES BOURNE, of No. 25, Via Santa Sofia, Milan, in
the Kingdom of Italy, Gas Company's Employée.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool and 6 Bank Street,
Manchester both in the County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn in the
County of Middlesex, 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:—
The present invention has for its object to prevent any oscillation in gas jets
caused by gas engines, meters, or by other causes, as well as to regulate and
maintain a fixed pressure in houses, business places, etcetera, where the consumption
of gas is not regular, thus giving gas flames their intensity and purity.
This apparatus is composed of the parts shown in the accompanying drawing, of
which
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FF the steel spring for partly supporting the bell B; this spring may also be
of any other suitable form such as a spiral or the like,
Ga bar of iron or other metal with a little chain for joining the spring F F to
the bell B,
H cross piece or guide for holding the bell in its place,
I, hole in the basin having a screw plug for obtaining the correct level of the
water,
J weight serving to regulate the pressure.
The regulator is arranged in immediate proximity to the exit from the gas meter,
and precisely at its right side as shown by the arrow in the accompanying drawing.
The bell B is held up by the pressure of the gas at its exit from the regulator in
such a way that if the consumption increases, the bell B descends automatically
and affords a greater passage to the gas. If on the contrary the consumption of
gas diminishes, the bell B rises automatically and reduces the passage for the gas in
proportion to the consumption, always maintaining the same pressure.
To recapitulate, the progressive working is as follows-
The gas emerging from the meter, passes by the mouth piece L into the elbow
tube and there encounters the valve, or as it should rather be called the
moderator E suspended by the chain to the rod G, the connecting piece between
the spring F F and the dome of the bell B, which diminishes its force and it flows
into the interior of the bell B raising it as much as the spring F F in combination
with the disc weights J allows, in order to give more or less passage to the gas by
the adjustment of the elbow tube in the interior of the tube m, whence the gas
passes to the discharge vent M in order to flow into the distributing pipes. ID
order to supply the basin with water, which is necessary for its working, the screw
capsule I is first opened and water is poured into the vacant space between the
walls A and B until it runs out by the hole closed by the above mentioned stopper I
after which the requisite level of the water will have been obtained and the capsule
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page_text: may be screwed down again, which will serve as a means of control for ascertaining
whether the water is at a suitable level.
In cases where the consumption is a large one, especially where gas engines are
used, if this apparatus be not employed, the quantity of gas supplied is intermittent
or in jerks which produces a strong oscillation of all the jets on the same series of
pipes, causing great inconvenience. All these drawbacks disappear when this
regulator is employed because the gas engines will work in a regular and precise
manner without affecting the jets on the same series of pipes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is-
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1. The improvements in gas regulators of the kind described, which consist in
providing a basin or receptacle A with a bell B sustained by a rod G, together
with springs F F and weights J the gas being introduced by the inlet L and
regulated by the valve E, all substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
2. The construction and general arrangement of parts forming the improvements
in gas regulators of the kind described substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 17th day of Mov 1899
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.