Improvements in Means for Lighting Incandescing and other Gas Burners provided or not with Chimneys.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in Means for Lighting Incandescing and other Gas
Burners provided or not with Chimneys.
I, BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS, of 23, Southampton Buildings, in the
County of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
(a communication to me from Pierre Bardot, of 8, Rue Duhamel, Lyons, in the
Republic of France, Manufacturer of Gas Apparatus) to be as follows:-
The present invention relates to the lighting of gas lamps or lanterns provided
with incandescing burners of the Welsbach or other system.
These lamps or lanterns at present require from the lamp-lighter rather com-
plicated operations which frequently result in the breakage of the mantles, and
they can only be lighted by means of spirit lamps which are readily extinguished
by the wind, and necessitate two different lighting systems in districts provided
with both the ordinary burners and the incandescing burners.
The invention consists in an arrangement which, by means of an ordinary oil
lighter and by a simple action, enables all the operations required by this lighting
to be readily and automatically accomplished.
The invention is represented in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1
is a front view and Fig. 2 a side view of the apparatus and Figures 3 to 5 are
detail views showing different positions of the parts during the lighting and
extinguishing operations.
The lamp or lantern is closed below by two panes of glass AA, one of which
is hinged to permit of the lighting which is effected by means of an ascending
lighter B, the jets of which are successively ignited up to the terminal aib which,
in its turn ignites the Bunsen burner C.
The mode of operation is as follows:-
1st. The glass pane A is opened.
2nd. The gas is caused to pass to the lighter B.
3rd. This lighter is lighted.
4th. The gas is caused to pass to the burner C.
5th. The lighter B is extinguished, when it has lighted the Bunsen burner.
6th. The glass pane A is closed.
These six operations, not one of which should be omitted, are successively and
necessarily accomplished in the proper order by means of the following
mechanism.
The gas cock D, at the foot of the lamp or lantern is operated by the lever E
which is of sufficient length to be conveniently reached by the lamp-lighter's rod,
this cock, on its other sile, carries a lever F, which by a link G is connected to
the movable pane A.
The cock and its plug are provided with three ways or passages arranged as
shown at Figures 3, 4, 5.
When the burner is extinguished, see Figures 1 and 3, the levers E and F are
horizontal, and the pane A is closed; for the lighting, the lever E is depressed
3rd. This lighter is lighted.
4th. The gas is caused to pass to the burner C.
5th. The lighter B is extinguished, when it has lighted the Bunsen burner.
6th. The glass pane A is closed.
These six operations, not one of which should be omitted, are successively and
necessarily accomplished in the proper order by means of the following
mechanism.
The gas cock D, at the foot of the lamp or lantern is operated by the lever E
which is of sufficient length to be conveniently reached by the lamp-lighter's rod,
this cock, on its other side, carries a lever F, which by a link G is connected to
the movable pane A.
The cock and its plug are provided with three ways or passages arranged as
shown at Figures 3, 4, 5.
When the burner is extinguished, see Figures 1 and 3, the levers E and F are
horizontal, and the pane A is closed; for the lighting, the lever E is depressed

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by the lamp-lighter's rod, so as to cause it to make about a quarter revolution,
the cock then assumes the position represented at Fig. 4, and the gas flows into
lighter B, and into the burner C, at the same time, the lever F is in
vertical position and has raised the pane A, the lamp-lighter can then introduce
his lamp into the interior of the lamp or lantern and light the lighter which
immediately lights the burner, when this is done the lamp-lighter again acts
on the lever E, giving it a quarter turn and thus raising it to the horizontal
position shown at Figure 5.
This movement effects the extinction of the lighter, at the same time,
the lever F, becoming horizontal, allows the pane A to close, and the lamp or
lantern is in the desired conditions for illumination. The extinction is effected
by a single action, by moving the lever E from left to right thus replacing all
in the position shown at Figures 1 and 3.
It will be seen, that without requiring any special precaution in lighting, the
required operations are necessarily effected in the desired order without it being
possible to miss a single one, the mantle is thus protected from the accidents
consequent on a badly effected lighting and its life is thus considerably pro-
longed. The consumption of the lighter B is capable of regulation by means of
the pointed screw V see Figures 3, 4, 5.
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HARRIS & MILLS,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in Means for Lighting Incandeścing and other Gas
Burners provided or not with Chimneys.
I, BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS, of 23, Southampton Buildings, in the
County of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
(a communication to me from Pierre Bardot, of 8, Rue Duhamel, Lyons, in the
Republic of France, Manufacturer of Gas Apparatus) and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement;
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The present invention relates to the lighting of gas lamps or lanterns provided
with incandescing burners of the Welsbach or other system.
These lamps
or lanterns at present require from the lamp-lighter rather com-
plicated operations which frequently result in the breakage of the mantles, and
they can only be lighted by means of spirit lamps which are readily extinguished
by the wind, and necessitate two different lighting systems in districts provided
with both the ordinary burners and the incandescing burners.
The invention consists in an arrangement which, by means of an ordinary oil
lighter and by a simple action, enables all the operations required by this lighting
to be readily and automatically accomplished.
The invention is represented in the drawings accompanying my Provisional
Specification in which Fig. 1 is a front view and Fig. 2 a side view of the appa-
ratus and Figures 3 to 5 are detail views showing different positions of the parts
during the lighting and extinguishing operations.
The lamp or lantern is closed below by two panes of glass A A, one of which
is hinged to permit of the lighting which is effected by means of an ascending
pilot lighter tube B, the jets of which are successively ignited up to the ter-
minal nib which, in its turn ignites the Bunsen burner C.
The mode of operation is as follows:-
1st. The glass pane A is opened.

page_text: 2nd. The gas is caused to pass to the pilot lighter tube B.
3rd. This pilot lighter is lighted.
4th. The gas is caused to pass to the burner C.
5th. The pilot lighter B is extinguished when it has lighted the Bunsen burner.
6th. The glass pane A is closed.
These six operations, not one of which should be omitted, are successively and
necessarily accomplished in the proper order by means of the following
mechanism.
The gas cock C, at the foot of the lamp or lantern is operated by the lever E
which is of sufficient length to be conveniently reached by the lamp-lighter's rod,
this cock, on its other side, carries a lever F, which by a link G is connected to
the movable pane A.
The cock and its plug are provided with three ways or passages arranged as
shown at Figures 3, 4, 5.
When the burner is extinguished, see Figures 1 and 3, the levers E and F are
horizontal, and the pane A is closed; for the lighting, the lever E is depressed
by the lamp-lighter's rod, so as to cause it to make about a quarter revolution,
the cock then assumes the position represented at Fig. 4, and the gas flows into
the pilot lighter tube B and into the burner C, at the same time, the lever F is in a
vertical position and has raised the pane A, the lamp-lighter can then introduce
his lamp into the interior of the lamp or lantern and light the pilot lighter B, which
immediately lights the burner, when this is done the lamp-lighter again acts
on the lever F, giving it a quarter turn and thus raising it to the horizontal
position shown at Fig. 5.
This movement effects the extinction of the pilot lighter B, at the same time,
the lever F, becoming horizontal, allows the pane A to close, and the lamp or
lantern is in the desired conditions for illumination. The extinction is effected
by a single action, by moving the lever E from left to right thus replacing all
in the position shown at Figures 1 and 3.
It will be seen, that without requiring the lamp lighter to take any special
precaution the required operations are necessarily effected in the desired order
without it being possible to miss a single one, the incandescence mantle is thus
protected from the accidents consequent on a badly effected lighting and its life
is thus considerably prolonged. The consumption of gas by the pilot lighter B
is capable of regulation by means of the pointed screw V see Figures 3, 4, 5.
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;-
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1. In means for lighting incandescing and other gas burners provided or not
with a chimney, in street and other lamps or lanterns, the combination of a three
way cock, a perforated ascending pilot gas lighter tube, the Bunsen burner and a
movable pane in the bottom of the lamp or lantern which is closed by the move-
ment of the cock on the complete opening of the burner substantially as herein
set forth.
2. In means for lighting incandescing and other gas burners the combination
with a movable pane in the bottom of the lamp of a Bunsen burner having a
three way cock, an operating lever on one side of the plug of said cock, a pane
operating lever on the opposite side of the plug, a link connecting the movable
pane to its operating lever and a perforated pilot lighter tube connected with the
three way cock and rising to the Bunsen burner arranged and operating substan-
tially as herein shown and described.
HARRIS & MILLS,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.