Improvements Connected with Gas-burners.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Aug,
4000
Accepted, 28th
Sept 1880
2535
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements Connected with Gas-burners.
I, WILLIAM TAYLOR, of City Buildings, Old Hall Street, Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Commission Agent, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to
be as follows:-
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This invention relates to the burners used for distributing and burning illuminating
gas, and more particularly to the ordinary "Bray" and other like burners, and has
for its object to obtain from a given quantity of gas passed through a burner of the
above kind a greater illuminating power than is obtained under the conditions in
which these burners are usually used.
According to my invention 1 employ in connection with the ordinary existing
burner a short tube which I place loosely over same, and it is so arranged and
constructed that air is admitted at its lower part, and such air is caused to become
heated by the heat of the tube and is used to support combustion of the gas. This air
will thus travel in an annular film between the interior surface of the tube and the
exterior surface of the burner proper.
The lower end of the tube may be arranged to rest on the socket or other connection
into which the existing burner screws or fits, and the supply of air thereto may be
admitted through gaps formed in its lower edge.
The tube may be so arranged that its upper edge is heated by coming in contact
with the edge of the flame, of the burner, thereby causing the tube to become hot,
and ensuring the air passed through it also becoming hot.
The tube may be variously formed to suit different forms of burners, and the air
may be supplied to it in the manner described or in any other suitable way.
Untad this 2nd day of November 1888
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
Applicant's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements Connected with Gas-burners.
I, WILLIAM TAYLOR, of City Buildings, Old Hall Street, Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Commission Agent, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 the burners used for distributing and burning illuminating
gas, and more particularly to the ordinary "Bray" and other like burners, and has
for its object to obtain, from a given quantity of gas passed through a burner of the
above kind, a greater illuminating power than is obtained under the conditions in
which these burners are usually used.
According to my Invention I employ in connection with the ordinary existing
burner a short tube which I place loosely over same, and it is so arranged and
constructed that air is admitted at its lower part, and such air is caused to become
heated by the heat of the tube and is used to support combustion of the gas. The
air will thus travel in an annular film between the interior surface of the tube and
the exterior surface of the burner proper.
The lower end of the tube may be arranged to rest on the socket or other
connection into which the existing burner screws or fits, and the supply of air thereto
may be admitted through gaps formed in its lower edge.
The tube may be so arranged that its upper edge is heated by coming in contact
with the edge of the flame, of the burner, thereby causing the tube to become hot,
and ensuring the air passed through it also becoming hot.

page_text: The drawing hereto annexed, which serves to illustrate my invention. shows
an ordinary bracket-arm or like support, having an ordinary "Bray-burner," over
which the short tube is placed.
Referring to the drawing, a is the arm of, say, the bracket, and b the burner, which
is screwed into an ordinary screwed gallery neck c of the bracket. t is the tube, and
in the present example it is supported by the upper edge of the neck c, and provided
with apertures at t¹ for the admission of air to it. The drawing shows the tube made
of such a length that its upper edge projects above the top of the burner b, and the
flame just touches the edge.
The air enters the tube through the apertures at and travels up by the annular
space between the tube and the burner to the flame, and becomes heated to some
extent; the whole arrangement effecting an improved light for a given quantity of
gas used.
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
1. The combination with a gas burner, of a tube arranged outside said burner and
having between itself and the tube, a space, through which air is admitted to the
flame, and the upper edge of the said tube being arrange: above the burner top; for
the purposes set forth.
2. The device herein described for applying to gas burners consisting of a tube
provided with apertures and adapted to be supported by the ordinary "Gallery-neck
of a gas bracket or the like; substantially as set forth with reference to the
drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of August 1889.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.