New or Improved Device for Checking or Regulating the Force of the Gas-supply to a Burner.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr,, 1899-Accepted, 17th June, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Device for Checking or Regulating the Force of the
Gas-supply to a Burner.
We, JouN JONES and DAVID JONES, of 157, Weston Street, Great Lever, Bolton,
in the County of Lancashire, Leather Merchants, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
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This invention relates to a new or improved device for checking or regulating
the force of the gas-supply to a burner, and has for its object the provision of
means for checking the volume of gas passing to the burner in such a manner
that the gas supply will be regulated and prevented from rushing to the burner in
too great a volume or with overmuch force, but instead, will pass to the burner
in a steady stream of uniform volume and pressure.
The essential feature of this our said invention, consists in reducing the diameter
of the opening through which the gas has to pass to the burner. This we may
effect in various ways, as for instance, we may plug up the end of the supply
pipe, near the burner and bore a small hole or holes in such plug; or we may
insert a short length of fine tubing in said supply pipe. If desirable, the desired
object may be attained by diminishing the size of the elbows of the gas pipe, or
the gas-cock itself may be provided with a plug having one or more minute
openings in same.
And in order that this our said invention may be the more readily understood
and carried into practical effect, we will now proceed to describe same with refer-
ence to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, and the letters and
figures of reference marked upon same that is to say:-
Fig. 1, is a elevational view partly in section, of a gas-bracket with our
invention applied thereto.
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, Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5, being views of modifications of the invention, while, Fig. 6,
is an enlarged sectional view of that form of the invention shewn in Fig. 1.
Referring to the drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts throughout the various figures, a (Fig. 1) is an ordinary form of
gas-bracket, upon the burner end of which is screwed the tapped end 6 of a short
sleeve provided with a diaphragm c in which is a minute opening_c.
other end 62 of the sleeve b is screw-threaded and screws into the tapped socket </
of the burner d.
The
Referring to Fig. 3, we have there illustrated a modified form of the invention.
in which a metal, wooden or other plug c is inserted into the supply pipe a, this
plug having a longitudinally disposed bore c', (or bores) of small diameter.
In Fig. 4, we have shewn the application of a disc c to the interior of the gas
pipe, such disc being provided with a similar opening (or openings) c¹ to those
shewn and described in the previous examples.
If desirable, we may reduce the diameter of the gas-supply pipe itself, by
"pinching" same at any desired point, as for instance, at any of its elbows, as

page_text: shewn by Fig. 2; or we may provide a plug (not shewn) in the gas-cock, such
plug having an opening in same of smaller diameter than that of the gas-pipe.
In Fig. 5, we have illustrated a further modification of the checking or regu-
lating device, which consists in providing a diaphragm having an opening in
same in which a short tube c¹ communicating therewith. such tube d being of
smaller diameter than the supply pipe a in which the diaphragm c and tube c
are situated.
By thus reducing the opening through which the gas passes to the burner,
waste of gas is prevented, while at the same time, the flame burns steadier and
more brilliantly than where the gas passes straight through a large bore to the
burner.
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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:
CLAIMS.
1. In a device for checking or regulating the force of the gas-supply to a burner,
the short sleeve b having one end tapped and the other screw-threaded, said sleeve
being provided with a diaphragm c in which is a minute opening or openings ¹,
substantially as and for the purpose described and as illustrated by Fig. 1 of the
drawings.
2. In means for checking the force of the gas-supply to burners, the modified
arrangements, substantially as described and illustrated by Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5,
of the drawings.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 and 56 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for Applicants.