INCREASING THE ILLUMINATING AND HEATING POWERS OF GASES, AND REGU- LATING THE FLOW OF GASES AND IMPROVEMENT IN THE MATERIAL FOR GAS METERS, AND IMPROVEMENT IN GLASS AND CYLINDER HOLDERS
Year: 1859

page_text: ." INCREASING THE ILLUMINATING AND HEATING POWERS OF GASES, AND REGU-
LATING THE FLOW OF GASES AND IMPROVEMENT IN THE MATERIAL FOR GAS
METERS, AND IMPROVEMENT IN GLASS AND CYLINDER HOLDERS."
Sealed the 23rd March 1860, and dated the 26th September 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David White at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th September 1859.
I, DAVID WHITE, of 18. High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Gas Fitter and Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "INCREASING THE ILLUMINATING AND HEATING POWERS OF GASES, AND REGU
LATING THE FLOW OF GASES, AND IMPROVEMENT IN THE MATERIAL FOR GAS METERS,
AND IMPROVEMENT IN GLASS AND CYLINDER HOLDERS." to be as follows:-
1. The application of mica, talc, asbestos, or other suitable material, per-
forated or woven, with or without a larger opening in the centre to be placed
on the top of or suspended over or under globes, glasses, cylinders, or funnels,
for the purpose of protecting the gaseous flame from an undue pressure of air,
and for allowing space for the passage of air admitted. I also apply mica,
talc, or asbestos in the construction and covering of lanterns, lamps, and
stoves, providing spaces for the admission and escape of air.
2. A holder provided with three arms, the prong of one arm to move back-
[Price 8d.]

page_text: wards and forwards by means of a spring or springs to facilitate the fitting
and securing of globes, glasses, cylinders, or funnels.
3. A regulator to control the flow of gas to the burner formed by intro-
ducing discs or wire gause, perforated metal, zinc, asbestos, woven fabric of
hair, wool,, or other porous substances, to be confined in a tube either in the
pipe, nose piece, or a separate instrument for the purpose, and through which
the gas passes to the burner. A regulator formed by means of a tube placed
within another, and within which a diaphragm or valve of metal or other
suitable material acting under an increase of pressure from the gas, regulates
its flow by partially closing the outlet.
4. A regulator to control the flow of gas to any number of burners by
means of a case or box of two chambers with a cylinder, single or double
valve and disc.
5. An improvement to be applied to outdoor lamps, those in halls and
passages, as also to gas stoves and other appliances in the use of gas; the bottom
is closed, an opening is provided for the admission of air, and another in the
upper part for the exit of heated air. In framed out and indoor lamps where
the supply of gas is a descending one, the pipe or pipes are placed within an
angle or angles, or formed in the frame of the lamp and carried to the burner,
which is reached by a bar having its bearings from side to side, or from angle
to angle of the bottom of the lamp frame, beneath which a syphon opening
with a nut is provided. Within the lamp, a globe, glass cylinder, or funnel
is placed on a holder to contain the burner, and a perforated cap or covering
made of talc, mica, or asbestos, is placed on the top, or suspended over the
globe, glass cylinder, or funnel; the union joint of the supply pipe to the lamp
is placed above the lamp iron frame.
6. An apparatus for increasing the illuminating power of gases by means
of a hydrocarbon, through or over which the gas is made to pass on its
passage to the burner.
An improvement in the material of gas meters or measurers, by substituting
tale or mica plates for those of metal in the moveable diaphragm so as to
prevent corrosion.
I claim the application of perforated mica, talc, asbestos. or any other
suitable material to be placed on the top, or suspended over or under globes,
glasses, cylinders, funnels or stoves, and the improved holder with its move-
able prong for globes, glasses, cylinders, and funnels.
I claim also the principle of closing the bottom of lamps, stoves, and other
articles, with the modes of regulating the admission of air, and its exit from
the apparatus.

page_text: I claim the peculiar mode and materials in the arrangement of perforated
metal discs, wire gause, asbestos, and fabrics of woven hair, wool, or other
suitable material for the regulation of the supply of gas to the burner. In
the regulator for a number of lights.
I claim the application of two chambers, and cylinder disc, and single or
double valves, to control the pressure of gas by means of a spring diaphragm
or mercury.
I also claim the improved fittings of the lamp in pipes and bearings, and
the arrangement for the admission and exit of air, and the syphon as specified
in section No. 5.
I claim for improving the illuminating power of gas, the mode of passing.
it through a vessel or vessels charged with hydrocarbon.
And I claim the use of talc or mica for the construction and covering of
lamps, lanterns, or stoves with spaces for the admission and exit of air.
And I claim the use of talc or mica as being incorrosive for plates in
the moving diaphragms of gas meters or measurers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said David White in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th
March 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
WHITE, of 18, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Gas Fitter and
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by. Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the
year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said, David White, Her special licence that I, the said David White, my
executors, administrators, and, assigns, or such others as I, the said David
White, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "INCREASING THE ILLUMINATING AND
HEATING POWERS OF GASES, FOR REGULATING THE FLOW OF GASES, AND IMPROVEMENT
IN THE MATERIAL FOR GAS METERS, AND IMPROVEMENT IN GLASS AND CYLINDER
HOLDERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I the said David White,

page_text: my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said David White, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
The application of mica, talc, or asbestos to facilitate the combustion of gases
placed in the top or suspended over or under globes, glasses, cylinders, or
funnels, perforated as shewn in Drawing, Figures 1 and 2, with glass rivets to
prevent the cap slipping off; the perforations are shewn at A, A, A, to allow
the heat to escape freely; Figure 3, a support for the glass globe to hold it
firm without screws; the glass fits over the pieces A, A, B being pressed against
by the spring C; Figure 4 is an enlarged Drawing shewing the interior of the
tube D, as shewn in Figure 3: B. the projecting piece that the glass is
held by.
REGULATORS.
of an
Figure 6 is the inside of a tube, shewing the construction
apparatus so made as to regulate the supply of gas to one or any number
of burners. A, A, is a tube: B, B, a concave of metal that fits close to the
inner edge, and having a hole G at the end or apex; D is a convex cone of
metal suspended from the point E as a pendulum; when the gas is of too great
a pressure, it will cause the cone D to move closer to B, B, thereby making
the aperture smaller and checking the pressure of gas to the burner.
Figure 7 is another description of regulator. A screws into the inlet pipe B
to receive the burner; Figure 8 shews the interior of Figure 7, the gas passes
from the pipe A through a plate of zinc or gauze c, then through hair D;
lastly, through a plate of gauze or perforated zinc E; F is a nut screwed into the
pipe B, to hold the zinc or gauze C, and the plate E, with the hair D between
close together, the nut F being turned up or down according to the greater
or less supply of gas; this is applicable to all burners; Figure 9, the same
description of regulator, the part B to receive the burner, and contains the
zinc, gauze, hair, &c., as described in Figure 8; the part A screws on the
supply pipe.
. Figure 10, the interior of another description of regulator. A, the supply
pipe; B, B, small holes at the top, so made that when the gas passes through

page_text: them it presses against the plate or cover C, from thence passes through the
space D, and then to the burner or burners, as shewn by the arrows; if the
pressure of gas be too great, it forces the cap closer to the sides E, thereby
causing the opening at D to become smaller, therefore controuling the overdue
pressure to the burner, but if the pressure of gas be weak, the cap C falls,
causing the opening D, D, to become larger, and thereby allowing the whole
of the gas to pass freely; F is a rod to guide the cap.
Figure 5, an improvement to be applied to in and outdoor lamps, those in
halls and passages, also to gas stoves and other appliances in the use of gas,
improving the combustion; the bottom is closed; an opening is provided for
the admission of air, and another for the exit of heated air. In a street lamp,
the tube for conveying the gas to the burner is carried in the angle of the
frame to the burner, supported by a stay from side to side of frame, the
bottom is closed, air is admitted for support of combustion. A. A, are the
heated air escapes at B. B; the glass or chimney that surrounds the flame has
a perforated cover C on top to increase combustion, and a regulator to controul
the flame; D is a syphon and nut at the bottom.
An improvement in the material in making gas meters by substituting talc
or mica plates for metal in the movable diaphagons to prevent corosion.
Having set forth the nature of my Invention, I claim the application of
mica, talc, and asbestos, the regulators, the holder, the inside and outsided street
lamps, improvement in the combustion of gas in stoves and furnaces, and the
improvement in the material of gas meters, as described; I do not confine
myself to the particular form or shape of lamps or other apparatus shewn in
the Drawings.
In witness whereof, 1, the said David White, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
D. WHITE. (L.S.)