A New or Improved Burner for Lighting by Acetylene or other Gases Rich in Carbon.
Year: 1896

page_text: being date of first Foreign Application (in 30th May, 1896
France),
Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 28th Nov., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 28th Nov., 1896--Accepted, 30th Jan., 1897
Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 28th Nov., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 28th Nov., 1896--Accepted, 30th Jan., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Burner for Lighting by Acetylene or other
Gases Rich in Carbon.
We, STANISLAS DOMINIQUE GILLET, and GEORGES FOREST, Mechanical
Engineers, and JEAN EMMANUEL OLIVIER BOCANDÉ, Engineer, all of
32 Boulevard Henri IV, Paris, in the Republic of France, 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 invention to which the present application relates is a new construction of
burner intended automatically and in suitable quantity to mix air in the interior
thereof with the acetylene gas, so as to be capable of burning this gas in burners
of all forms and dimensions and of giving to the flame its maximum lighting power
and consequently avoiding any production of smoke or deposit of carbon.
Our invention will be readily understood by the following description and by
reference to the accompanying drawing in which :-
Fig. 1 represents a vertical section of our improved construction of burner.
Fig. 2 represents a modification of the same burner in section.
Fig. 3 represents our invention applied to a burner with a gallery.
As shown in this drawing, our construction comprises a nozzle a' which may
be furnished at its lower part with metallic cloth 6 through which the gas passes
before entering the burner properly so called.
The nozzle just referred to is arranged within a chamber c¹ terminated at its
upper part by a relatively small orifice and it is fixed therein either by a coupling
piece d as in Fig. 1 or in any other way.
Air inlet apertures fare arranged at a convenient height in relation to the
orifice e so as to draw in the external air and form a mixture of air and gas in the
desired proportions.
Above the mixing chamber is the tapped part gl intended to receive the nib or
burner properly so called which may be any suitable commercial nib or burner
such as a batswing, &c.
In the modification represented at Fig. 2 we have arranged a sort of slide i¹
by means of which the admission of air by the apertures f¹ can be regulated.
In the modification represented at Fig. 3, the arrangement is the same as for the
preceding forms except that the burner is provided with a gallery to carry a
chimney.
The forms, details, accessories, materials and dimensions of our improved
construction of burner can evidently be varied without in any way changing the
principle of our invention.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A construction of burner for lighting by acetylene gas or other gas rich in
carbon in which the gas passes through metallic gauze 6' and a nozzle a¹ into a
chamber c¹ in which it is mixed with air drawn in through the orifices in the
desired proportions in order to avoid the production of smoke or the deposit of
carbon upon the nib or burner properly so called which surmounts the arrange-
ment and which may be of any suitable character, the whole substantially as
described and represented.
2. The improved construction of burner for lighting with acetylene or other gas
rich in carbon substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated November 28th. 1896
HARRIS & MILLS,
23 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.