IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND COOKING to be as follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: I, HENRY CHARLES TURNER of 10 Blucher Road, Camberwell, in the County
of Surrey, Gas Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND COOKING
to be as
follows:-
"
This invention has reference to gas heating and cooking stoves, boilers, and
other apparatus, and has for its object the construction of mechanism applicable to
such apparatus whereby the danger arising from the possibility of unconsumed
gas passing into the stove or other apparatus before being lighted is obviated and
a source of great danger removed.
The invention consists in making the float or pipe carrying the burners to swing
out of the stove, or other apparatus, for the purpose of lighting them. This is
done by fixing the float to the gas supply pipe within the stove, by a tap-like
joint, the supply pipe being fastened to the barrel, while the float is fixed to the
plug. To the bottom part of the plug there is attached a short square or otherwise
suitably shaped spindle or sleeve. This spindle or sleeve is connected to a longer
vertical spindle which passes through the bottom, or other convenient part of the
stove and is there supported by a bracket. The gas supply cock which is situated
under the stove, or in other suitable position is opened and closed by means of
a rod one end of which is pivotted to the lever of the cock, and the other extends
to the outside of the stove where it terminates in a knob. At a point near to
which the vertical spindle and the rod crosses there is attached to the rod an
inclined projection and to the spindle a stud.
The action is as follows. When it is intended to light the gas, the float is swung
out of the stove, or other apparatus, and the knob or lever pulled forward or
otherwise manipulated when the burners may be lighted and returned to the stove
or other apparatus, and the quantity of gas to be consumed regulated by actuating
the knob or other appliance suitably, or by thrusting the knob quite home the gas
will be shut off altogether. But as the turning of the float into the stove brings
the stud into contact with the front of the inclined projection on the rod, the knob
cannot be pulled forward nor the gas supply opened until the float is withdrawn
from the stove, and if therefore through inadvertence or otherwise the gas is not
lighted immediately, the gas simply escapes into the room, and does not form an
explosive mixture in the stove. The occurrence of danger from such a cause is
herefore prevented.

page_text: Improvements in Gas Apparatus for Heating and Cooking.
"
and in what
I, HENRY CHARLES TURNER of 10 Blucher Road, Camberwell, in the County
of Surrey, Gas Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND COOKING
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
This invention has reference to gas heating and cooking stoves, boilers, and other
apparatus, and has for its object the construction of mechanism applicable to such
apparatus, whereby the danger arising from the possibility of unconsumed gas
passing into the stove or other apparatus before being lighted is obviated and a
source of great danger removed.
In order that the invention may be more easily understood, drawings are
attached hereto. Fig. 1 is a plan of the underside of the bottom of the stove,
Fig. 2 a sectional elevation of the bottom of the stove at A, B, Fig. 1, showing the
improved apparatus in elevation, the gas cock being closed, and the float within
the stove, and Fig. 3 the same view with the float swung out of the stove ready
for lighting, and the cock open.
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The invention consists in making the float or pipe C carrying the burners D to
swing out of the stove or other apparatus for the purpose of lighting them. This
"is done by fixing the float C to the gas supply pipe E within the stove, by a tap
like joint F, the supply pipe E being fastened to the barrel of the tap while the
float is fixed to the plug. To the bottom part of the plug there is attached a short
square or otherwise suitably shaped spindle or sleeve G. This spindle or sleeve is
connected to a longer vertical spindle H which passes through the bottom or other
convenient part of the stove and is there supported by a bracket I. The gas
supply cock J which is situated under the stove or in other suitable position is
opened and closed by means of a rod K, one end of which is pivotted to the
lever L of the cock J, and the other extends to the outside of the stove where it
terminates in a knob M. At a point near to which the vertical spindle H and the
rod K cross there is attached to the rod K an inclined projection N, and to the
spindle a stud O.
The action is as follows. When it is intended to light the gas, the float C is
swung out of the stove or other apparatus and the knob or lever M pulled forward,
or otherwise manipulated when the burners may be lighted and returned to the
stove or other apparatus, and the quantity of gas to be consumed regulated by
actuating the knob or other appliance suitably,-or by thrusting the knob quite
home the gas will be shut off altogether. But as the turning of the float into the
stove brings the stud O into contact with the front of the inclined projection N or
the rod K, the knob M cannot be pulled forward nor the gas supply opened unti
the float C is withdrawn from the stove, and if therefore through inadvertence o
otherwise the gas is not lighted immediately, the gas simply escapes into the room