Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 20th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 30th Nov., 1888
I, GEORGE JOHN O'REILLY of Rathmore House, Highgate in the county of
Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to an improvement in gas burners which has for its objects,
regulating the pressure of the gas at the orifice of the burner, filtering the gas as it
is consumed, and consequently obtaining a superior light with a lower consumption
of gas.
To attain these ends I take any convenient or suitable form of burner and I pack
the space within it with any loose fibrous material, such as cotton wool. Above and
below the fibrous material I place a disc of fine gauze to confine the said fibrous
material within the burner. I prefer to make the body of the burner in two parts
screwing the one into the other to admit of the ready introduction of the fibrous
material and the gauze discs within the burner. By this construction of burner the
density of the fibrous packing can be regulated according to the pressure of gas in the
mains, so as to give the best possible results in the consumption thereof.
Dat this 21st dor of Tonu 1000
ROBT. ED. PHILLIPS, M.I.M.E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
Royal Courts Chambers,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gas Burners.
1 GEORGE JOHN O'REILLY of Rathmore House Highgate, in the County of
Middlesex, Physician and Surgeon, 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 :-
My Improvements are devised with a view to regulating the pressure of gas at the
orifice of the burner, filtering the gas as it is consumed and thereby consequently
enabling me by means of my said improvements to ensure a superior light with a lower
consumption of gas than has hitherto been attainable with gas burners.
My Invention is applicable to any form of burner. I pack the space A within same
with any loose fibrous or filamentous material such for instance as cotton wool, to serve
as the filtering medium, which is held in position between two discs B, B¹ of fine gauze
wire.
In some cases 1 may employ a special type of burner which latter may consist of
two parts, C and D said parts to be screwed one into the other with a view to allow
of the convenient introduction of the fibrous filtering material aforesaid, and of the
confining gauze discs within the burner. Under this last described mode of construct-
ing the burner, the density of the fibrous filtering material may be regulated propor-
tionately to the pressure of gas in the main and thereby to ensure the most perfect
results possible in the consumption.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I
do not confine myself to any particular formation of the body of the gas burner to
allow of the reception of a filtering medium; but I declare that what I claim is.
The improvements in gas burners substantially as herein described, the essential
feature whereof consists in the employment of any loose fibrous material as a filtering
medium for the purposes herein set forth.
Dated this 19th day of October 1888.