Improvements in Burners applicable to Acetylene and Rich Oil Gas Lighting.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 28th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 19th Nov., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Burners applicable to Acetylene and Rich Oil
Gas Lighting.
I, JAMES MCCONECHY, of 67, Renfield Street, of the County of the City of Glas-
gow, North Britain, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows;
This invention which relates to burners applicable to acetylene and rich oil
gas lighting has for its object to construct these in the manner and for the pur-
pose of obviating the carbonization of the heat resisting material of which the
top of such burners is composed during the burning of the gas.
It is common to acetylene gas burners to conduct the gas through a small
aperture which opens into an exterior circular cavity or hollow formed in the
centre of the burner. The top of such burners is usually flat or approximating
to concavity, consequently the lower part of the flame impinges, in the direction
of its length upon the top of the burner: the curvature of the flame rising
immediately from the shoulder or square edge of the head and here carboniza-
tion takes place.
According to my invention I take off these sharp corners or edges and so
impart to the top of the burner a configuration approaching convexity, by which
means I remove the area of combustion of the flame to a slightly higher altitude,
(the arc of the flame and the arc of the burner unite at a point of their apexes)
in order to preserve the burner and enhance its duration.
The acetylene gas as it comes from the storage holder to the burner is some-
times found to carry with it a small percentage of aqueous matter. According to
another feature of my present invention I propose to place in the interior of the
burner, beneath the gauze such quantity of absorbent material, for example
cotton wool or its fibrous equivalent, as will absorb and relieve the gas of any
saturation.
Improvements in Burners applicable to Acetylene and Rich Oil
Gas Lighting.
I, JAMES MCCONECHY, late of 67, Renfield Street (but now of 142, West Regent
Street,) of the County of the City of Glasgow, North Britain, Manufacturer, do
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page_text: 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 which relates to burners applicable to acetylene and rich oil
gas lighting has for its object to construct these in the manner and for the pur-
pose of obviating the carbonization of the heat resisting material of which the
top of such burners is composed during the burning of the gas.
It is common to acetylene gas burners to conduct the gas through a small
aperture which opens into an exterior circular cavity or hollow formed in the
centre of the burner. The top of such burners is usually flat or approximating
to concavity, consequently the lower part of the flame impinges in the direction
of its length upon the top of the burner; the curvature of the flame rising
immediately from the shoulder or square edge of the head and here carboniza-
tion takes place.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried
into effect, I have hereunto appended one explanatory sheet of drawings, in the
two figures of which corresponding parts are marked with the same letters of
reference.
Figure 1, is a side elevation and plan respectively of a union jet gas burner
made in accordance with burners presently in use.
Figure 2, is a side elevation and plan respectively of a union jet gas burner for
acetylene gas illumination and made in accordance with my improvements.
It will be seen in the union gas jet illustrated in Figure 1, that the crown a
of the burner A, is invested with a concave hollow shewn in dotted lines, and
that the shoulders b, have a decided determinate form.
According to my invention I take off the sharp corners or edge and so impart
to the top of the burner A, a flat even surface or a surface approaching to con-
vexity by which means I remove the area of combustion of the flame to a
slightly higher altitude, the arc B, of the flame, and the arc or flat surface C, of
the burner A, unite at a point D, of their apexes in order to preserve the burner
and enhance its duration."
The acetylene gas as it comes from the storage holder to the burner A, is
sometimes found to carry with it a small percentage of aqueous matter.
Accord-
ing to another feature of my present invention I propose to place in the interior
of the burner A, beneath the gauze E, such quantity of absorbent material, for
example cotton wool or its fibrous equivalent F, as will absorb, and relieve the
gase of any saturation.
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:-
In union jet burners applicable to acetylene and rich oil gas lighting con-
structing these in the manner and for the purposes herein before described and
shown on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 27th day of Sontomhaw 1909
JAMES MCCONECHY,
Applicant.