Improvements connected with Regenerative Gas Burners.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Feb., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 21st Apr., 1899-Accepted, 27th May, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Regenerative Gas Burners.
I, DESMOND CLIBBORN MATURIN, of 22, Earl's Court Gardens, County of
London, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention relates to certain improvements in gas heating appliances in
order to obtain a steady white flame of great luminosity at a less than usual
consumption in quantity.
For the purpose of said invention, a return pipe is affixed to the neck of a
burner, through which the gas has to flow before it can reach the point of com-
bustion, the upper end of said return pipe being of ring or other shape within
or outside the chimney. If within the chimney, it is preferably arranged
above the top of the flame with an internal opening for the free passage of the
products of combustion, and if outside the tall chimney it can be about level
with the hottest part or body of the flame where the ring is gradually heated by
conduction instead of directly as by the former method.
The return flow pipe may, if desired, be connected by a bend to a narrow bulb
or stalk to descend partially within the flame for intensely heating the gas on its
way to the point of combustion.
The burner is preferably of the Argand kind and may have a second or out-
side short chimney down which the air travels and becomes rarefied before
passing through the meshes of the burner grating to the flame.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London.
Agent for the said Desmond Clibborn Maturin.
Improvements connected with Regenerative Gas Burners.
I, DESMOND CLIBBORN MATURIN, of 22, Earl's Court Gardens, County of
London, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, 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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This invention relates to certain improvements in gas heating appliances in
order to obtain a steady white flame of great luminosity at a less consumption
of the quantity of gas than is usual when other burners are used.

page_text: For the purpose of said invention, a return pipe is affixed to the neck of a
burner, through which the gas has to flow before it can reach the point of com-
bustion, the upper end of said return pipe being of ring or other shape within
or outside the chimney. If within the chimney, it is preferably arranged in or
above the top of the flame with an internal opening for the free passage of the
products of combustion, and if outside the chimney, it can be about level
with the hottest part or body of the flame where the ring is gradually heated by
conduction instead of directly as by the former method.
The return flow pipe may if desired, be connected by a bend to a narrow bulb
or stalk to descend partially within the flame for intensely heating the gas on its
way to the point of combustion.
The burner is preferably of the Argand kind and has a second or outside. short
chimney, down which the air travels and becomes rarefied before passing through
the meshes of the burner grating to the flame.
My invention will be clearly understood by reference to the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of an Argand kind of gas burner with the
gas heater flow and return tube within an inner chimney and having a gas heat-
ing chamber at top.
Figure 2 is a part sectional elevation of an Argand kind of gas burner with
the gas heater tube having a ring top within an inner chimney.
Figure 3 an elevation of such a burner with the gas heater tube outside the
inner chimney, the upper part of the gas heater tube being of ring shape with
the return leg affixed to the neck of the burner proper where the direct flow.
passage is blocked in order that the gas in its travel is diverted.
Figure 4 part sectional elevation of an Argand kind of burner with two gas
heater tubes springing from the neck of the burner and rising up outside the
inner chimney where they are bent over and terminate in a bulb, within which
the gas can be expanded by the heat of the flame and so become thinner and
rendered more adapted for perfect combustion than by the previously referred
to ring tubes.
I prefer in each case to employ two chimneys, as indicated, because the air to
support combustion is rarefied before reaching the flame and in addition to he
the better prepared for supporting combustion, it produces by its steady gentle
flow a more regular and equable flame without risk of flicker or jump, the light
being of great brightness and purity with plenty of diffusion properties.
According to Figure 1, the burner is of the ordinary Argand kind, but in the
other figures the construction is somewhat different as instead of holes in the head
of the burner, as in the Argand where the gas is broken up into a number of jets
which commingle as a ring of flame, I construct this burner of two cone shaped
shells which nearly meet at the top, so that an annular. space is formed at the
top from which the gas emerges in a perfect ring, the inner cone being slightly
higher than the outer cone to deprive the flame of the blue tinge usually found
at the base of a flame by contact of the oxygen of the atmosphere with the metal
consequently my flame is white from the base to its full height and of intense
luminosity.
In Figure 1, the upper or heating end of the return tube is of flattish bulb
formation and is arranged in close proximity to the flame, so that the
passing through same shall be rapidly and highly heated and the head of the
gas in
return tube may also act as a spreader to the flame.
A, connection to supply pipe. B, socket with partition C. D, D¹, branch legs
therefrom. E, F, inner and outer cones.
chimney H. I, outer short chimney. J, gallery thereto.
G, air shell for carrying inner
return pipe or pipes from either side of partition Crising up to above the flame
K, K, flow and
and within the chimney H, as at Figures 1 and 2 where, as in Figure 1, the head
of the pipe K is formed of hollow flattish bulb formation L as a gas heating
chamber, and in Figure 2 the upper part is bent into ring shape at L, so as not
to interfere with the tail of the flame and yet be within scope of the heat there-

page_text: from, the gas being thereby brought to a high degree of heat before passing to
the tubes M of the burner which with the heat of the burner nozzle R or
cones E, F, retain the heat of the gas to the point of combustion and produces a
pure white flame and perfect combustion. N, is the carrier of the inuer
chimney H.
At Figure 4, the flow and return tubes K, K, are carried above the top of the
inner chimney H with depending legs P', P, where they of different depths fermi-
nate in a bulb Q in which the gas becomes heated and expanded before passing
down the return leg to the socket B in a similar manner to Figure 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1. In gas lighting apparatus, the combination of appliances consisting of par-
titioned socket B, tube or tubes K, K', with ring or flat bulb Lor Q in conjunc-
tion with two chimneys H, I, carried by the same burner, the gas passing up
the tube K to bulb ring or other appliance to be heated by the gas flame previous
to passing down the tube K to the burner, as set forth and as represented on the
annexed drawings.
2. In gas lighting apparatus, the combination of appliances consisting of par-
titioned socket B, branches D, D', one below and one above the partition, the
return tubes K with ring L or bulb Q in conjunction with two chimneys H, I,
carried by the same buruer, as set forth and as represented on the annexed
drawings for the purposes described.
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1900
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London.
Agent for the said Desmond Clibborn Maturin.