IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUSES FOR HOLDING, REGULATING, COMPRESSING, AND BURNING GAS AND OTHER GASEOUS FLUIDS, PARTS OF WHICH APPLY TO THE HOLDING OF LIQUIDS
Year: 1859

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Wilkinson and David
White at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 29th June 1859.
We, WILLIAM WILKINSON, of Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, and DAVID WHITE, of High Holborn, in the same County, Surveyor,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUSES FOR HOLDING, REGULATING, COMPRESSING, AND BURNING GAS AND
OTHER GASEOUS FLUIDS, PARTS OF WHICH APPLY TO THE HOLDING OF LIQUIDS," to be
as follows:-
Our improvements in apparatuses for holding and compressing gas and other
fluids consist in constructing them of a series of cylinders made to slide one
within the other, similarly to the joints of a telescope, and in preventing the
gas by means of regulating screws from forcing up the cylinders by filling them
until the gas shall have attained a given pressure. These holders may be
fixed or stationary, and when for supplying portable gas as for the supply of
railway carriages, tunnels, &c., the holders are provided with suitable exit
valves. For the purpose of preventing the gas or other fluid and liquids
acting upon the surface of the holder or cistern containing it or them, we line
the holders or cisterns with glass, or we enamel them.
Our improvements in regulators for gas consist in constructing them of china
or earthenware, combined or not with metal, and in filling the interior through

page_text: which the gas is to pass, with springs, filaments, horsebair, or other springy
substance, elastic or non-elastic fabric, and mineral or vegetable powders.
We provide the regulators with valves or slides, so as only to allow a given
quantity to issue in a given time, and aided by the packing before mentioned
we cause the combustion of the gas to be greatly improved, and effect a great
saving in the quantity used. Our Invention also consists in constructing
regulators for more than one burner of two or more chambers, with inlet and
outlet pipes, and with a valve in one or more parts and in which the pressure
of gas is made to act against a disc, which will actuate the valve and will
contract the outlet when the pressure becomes too great; the disc is supported
by mercury or other suitable agent.
Our improvements in apparatuses for burning gas consist in cutting off
access for air to the burner through the bottom of the lamp, lantern, or globe
in which the burner is placed, and in providing suitable apertures in the upper
part of the lamp, lantern, or globo, for the inflow of air to support combustion,
and for the exit of the unconsumed products of combustion, which products
may be collected and conducted out of any apartment or place where they
might be injurious. We lay tale on the top of the globe or chimney in order
to concentrate the heat and thereby induce a current of air to support combus-
tion. We fit silvered glass and other suitable reflecting surfaces under the
burners, and others again over them, and thereby reflect the light to great
distances. We fit a syphon with tight screw nut in the bottom of the
lanterns, lamps, and globes, to allow of any accumulation of water which
might take place therein being easily withdrawn. For supporting the globes
we construct the holder with a spiral spring to clip and retain the globes, which
are formed without a rim.