IMPROVEMENTS IN BURNERS ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR BURNING HYDROCARBON GAS WITH OXYGEN
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Hagen at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 4th May 1882. A Communication from
abroad by Leon Quentin Brin of Paris France.
EDWARD HAGEN of Ealing in the County of Middlesex
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
BURNERS ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR BURNING HYDROCARBON GAS WITH OXYGEN.
(A Communication from abroad by Leon Quentin Brin of Paris France.)
The principal object of this invention is to furnish a good burner for the so
called "Brin" light which is one of great brilliancy and is produced by burning
carbonaceous bodies such as carbon sticks or carbon compounds such as petroleum
or other liquids and fluids or gases in or with oxygen as described in the Specification
of patent dated 11th October 1879 No 4127, and in the Specification of patent
dated 10th April 1880 No 1476. The oxygen may conveniently be produced by
the "Brin" process as described in the Specification of patent dated 7th April 1880
No 1416 and if the oxygen is ozonized or electrified according to "Brins" method
as described in the Specification of patent dated 26th August 1881 No 3728 a
light of very great intensity in fact a kind of voltaic arc is obtained This burner
consists essentially of an inner tube for the oxygen or slightly ozonized oxygen
and an outer enclosing tube for the gas which is to be burnt with the oxygen;
it also consists of a button, plate, cone, cylinder, sphere ring or otherwise shaped
body of refractory material which is so placed that the oxygen and the other gas
in fine jets may impinge upon it in a more or less lateral direction and so as to be
enveloped in the flame. The two fluids should as I have stated, at their place of
exit and combustion be intimately commingled and finely divided, this may be
done either by causing them to issue through very fine or narrow slits or through a
number of very small holes.
A convenient mode of constructing such a burner is as follows: to the end of an
ordinary gas conveying lighting pipe is fitted an upright socket having an interior
lining with an intermediate annular space. The lining is formed with some
apertures to allow the lighting gas to enter its interior. The lining has an upper
continuation or pipe. The oxygen is by a small pipe conveyed to the bottoin of
the socket and rises centrally therein being narrowed in diameter in its lower part.
The annular space between the inner or oxygen pipe and the aforesaid outer

page_text: pipe is for the lighting gas the outer pipe extends at the top somewhat inwardly
over the inner pipe and the space between the two is here divided off into a
number of narrow channels through which the lighting gas issues in a finely
divided state. The inner or oxygen pipe is fitted with a plug having a number
of fine notches in its circumference, and the oxygen thus issues through them in a
finely subdivided state.
This plug also carries the button of refractory material against which the com-
mingled jets of oxygen and lighting gas impinge. This button which may be
made of a silica and magnesia compound will by the heat of the bright flame
become incandescent.
The supply of lighting gas and of oxygen may be regulated by separate taps on
their respective supply pipes or the supply of both may be simultaneously and in
due proportion regulated by constructing the outer part of the burner or fitting so
as to turn against the inner part of same in which case the lower part of the fitting
is made in the form of a double cock.