IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS REGULATORS
Year: 1885

page_text: We JOHN GOODSON and WILLIAM GOODSON both of 213 Vauxhall Bridge
Road in the County of Middlesex, Gas Fitting and Gas Burner Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS
REGULATORS "and in what 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 is based upon former inventions for which Letters Patent
No 1,766 dated April 7, 1883 and No 11,823 dated August 30, 1884 were granted
to us, and has for its object the reduction of the friction between the cup and the
inside of the case or chamber wherein it rises and falls, and so to reduce to a
minimum the liability of the cup to stick and render the regulator more reliable in
its action.
In order that the invention may be more easily understood drawings are
attached hereto. Fig. 1 represents in elevation an ordinary burner regulator made
in accordance with our first named patent, but to which the arrangement to be
described is applicable. Fig. 2 is an elevation of a regulator adapted for inserting
vertically in any suitable place in the course of the supply fittings,-both of these
are drawn in their natural size. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional elevation of Fig. 2
when the regulator is at rest, and is drawn to a larger scale in order to show the
internal arrangement more distinctly, and Fig. 4 is also a sectional elevation of
Fig. 2 showing the position of the cup when in action. Fig. 5 shows the application
of the present invention to regulators, for suspension lights, made in accordance
with the second before named patent. Fig. 6 is a natural sized elevation of a
regulator designed to be inserted horizontally in the course of the supply fittings,
Fig. 7 being a vertical sectional elevation, and Fig. S a plan of the same with the
cover removed.
The invention consists in making the outside of the cup A of meerschaum as
described in the specification of our patent No 11,823, 1884, with a hollow indent B,
so that the upper and lower parts D and E of the periphery present but little
rubbing surface to the inside of the chamber F in which it rises and falls, and
instead of making the passages from the interior of this chamber to the outlet of
a circular form, two, three, four or more horizontal slits G are cut of such width

page_text: that they may be nearly covered by the upper part D of the periphery, when the
regulator is in action. In addition to these improvements the cap H may have a
small hole I formed in its centre, and the screw J being somewhat elongated and
formed with a rounded top is arranged so as to constitute J an additional valve,
and the cap H its seat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
1. The construction of regulators in which the cup A is formed with an
indent B as herein described and shown on the drawings, and,
2. The construction of regulators with narrow slits G, as herein described and
shown on the drawings.
W. H. BENNETT,
Agent for the Applicants.