IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO SELF-LIGHTING GAS BURNERS
Year: 1885

page_text: I ALFRED KINNEAR of N° 19 Camomile Street, in the City of London, Yarn
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN OR APPLICABLE TO SELF-LIGHTING GAS BURNERS" to be as follows
This invention relates to making the draught guards for self lighting gas
burners transparent, whereby the position of the burner becomes visible in the
dark without it being necessary to use matches or other lights to find the burner
which with draught guards as at present in use, which are opaque, it is necessary
to do, consequently doing away with the advantages of the self lighting principle
to a large extent.
I carrying out my invention I manufacture the draught guard of porcelain, glass,
talc mica or other suitable transparent substance. The guard is formed cylindrical
in shape, open at the top and bottom to allow of free ventilation and fastened at
the bottom into a metal cup or ring which is capable of being fastened onto self
lighting gas burners around the pilot burner; thus when the main burner is out,
and in consequence the pilot burner or lighter is alight, this light illuminates the
draught guard which can then be seen in the dark, thus shewing the position of
the self lighting burner and protecting the pilot light from being blown out, at the
same time allowing free ventilation to keep up proper combustion of gas consumed
by the pilot.

page_text: Improvements in or Applicable to Self-lighting Gas Burners.
I ALFRED KINNEAR, of 91 Finsbury Pavement in the city of London, Managing
Director of Kinnear's Patents Limited 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:―
This invention relates to making the draught guards for self-lighting gas
burners transparent, whereby the position of the burner becomes visible in the
dark without it being necessary to use matches or other lights to find the burner
which with draught guards as at present in use, which are opaque, it is necessary
to do, consequently doing away with the advantages of the self-lighting principle
to a large extent.
In the accompanying drawing figures 1 and 2-represent an elevation and section
respectively of a draught guard for self-lighting gas burners constructed according
to my invention. Similar letters in both the figures represent similar parts.
In carrying out my invention I manufacture the draught guards a, of porcelain,
glass, talc, mica or other suitable transparent substance. The guard is formed
cylindrical or spherical in shape as shewn open at the top and bottom to allow of
free ventilation and fastened at the bottom into a screw threaded metal cup or
ring b, which is capable of being fastened onto self-lighting gas burners around the
pilot burner, thus when the main burner is out and in consequence the pilot burner
or lighter is alight, this light illuminates the draught guard which can then be seen
in the dark, thus shewing the position of the self-lighting burner and protecting
the pilot light from being blown out, at the same time allowing free ventilation to
keep up proper combustion of gas consumed by the pilot.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner, the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The use in combination with a self lighting gas burner of a transparent or
translucent draught guard as and for the purpose herein before described and
represented in the accompanying drawing.