multitubular sanitary Lamp for street ingating and Dyg Sewer and other Noxious Gases.
Year: 1897

page_text: multitubular sanitary Lamp for street ingating and Dyg
Sewer and other Noxious Gases.
JOHN GEORGE GIBBON 89 East India Dock Road Poplar London E. Engi-
neer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention consists of a lamp of a novel construction for the purpose of
destroying sewer gas and other foul gases conveyed either from drains or other
offensive places.
The lantern can be made in the ordinary shape of street lamps, but by the
general arraingment it will give a superior light to the common street lamp now
in use.
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For the purpose of my invention I place a cover over the lantern with three
distinct chambers. The bottom chamber is a hot air furnace heated with gas or
oil from the light or lights in the lantern. The base of the furnace is composed
of a copper or similer metal plate and fitted to it a number of small metal tubes
equal in size to the area of the hole in the lamp column another copper or metal
plate placed near the top of the tubes thus constituting a furnace. The top
plate having a small marginal opening to pass the hot air generated there into
the second or combustion chamber, the heat from the gas passing through those
tubes and in addition the heat from the bottom plate gives a heat in the furnace
of from 400 to 500 degrees of heat. The hot air furnace and combustion chamber
is covered with a metal dome which intensifys the heat.
This invention serves a triple purpose by giving light and heat and destroying
all germ life.
On the top of the dome is fixed a third or exhaust chamber of a tubular form
an opening at the top of the combustion chamber passes the heated and purefied
air into this chamber where it is passed out at the sides through a number of
small holes for exhausting the air.
An ordinary lamp column will serve the purpose to fix the lamp on. Pipes
from the sewers or drains being laid to the base of the column and as the upper
chambers exhaust themselves the foul air will ascend rapidly to replace the ex-
hausted air.
This lamp is well adapted for Mortuarys Hospitals or other public institutions.
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page_text: Multitubular Sanitary Lamp for Street Lighting and Destroying
Sewer and other Noxious Gases.
I JOHN GEORGE GIBBON of 89 East India Dock Road Poplar London E.
Engineer 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:-
The invention relates to a novel construction of a lamp for street lighting and t
withdrawing foul gas and other noxious vapours from sewers drains and other
offensive places such as mortuarys Hospital wards and public buildings.
The lantern is of the ordinary type but of a form to throw out the best light.
The upper half of the lamp has three chambers for destroying purifying and
exhausting all gases conveyed to it.
Either gas or oil will answer both for lighting and heating purposes. For the
purpose of my invention which I show in the annexed drawing, I fix a lamp to
an ordinary lamp column the lantern is marked A. and on the top of the lantern
is a cover plate of copper or similar metal with a projecting flange of about three
to tour ches thier plate a button in the lower chamber or hot air
furnace. The bottom of this ruruuce is prorated a mand
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ascend into this chamber which is marked B and fixed to this plate is a number of
metal tubes in proportion in size to the area of the hole in the lamp column, the
projecting plate is to reflect the light and give brilliancy to the light.
Near to the top of the tubes is a covering plate with a small marginal opening.
thus forming this chamber into a hot air furnace which is heated by the heat
thrown from the light on to the bottom of the furnace also by the heat passing
into and through the tubes germ life coming in contact either with the bottom
of the furnace or in the tubes is at once destroyed as 560 degrees of heat can be
obtained sufficient to cremate any class of microbes. The hot air then passes
through the marginal opening in B chamber into the second chamber marked
Cwhich is a purifying chamber from which the purified air is passed into the
third chamber marked 1) which is an exhaust chamber. B and C chambers
have a dome or similar shaped cover of metal which completes the two lower
chambers. At the crown of this cover is an opening to pass the purified air into
the exhaust chamber.
This chamber is of a tubular form and perforated all round to pass the purified
air out. An ornamental top of any design will answer for a cover to this chamber.
In D chamber the Thermometer registered 360 degrees of heat the lantern
frame and the three chambers should be made of one class of metal for equal
expansion and contraction.
In deep sewers where the up current should prove to be too rapid for generating
heat about two thirds of the tubes should be covered with easy fitting caps which
will considerably increase the heating power.
Where sewers receive inflamable gases a double wire guaze should be placed
in the bottom of the lantern to prevent explosions. Pipes being fixed to sewers
or drains to convey the vitiated air to the base of the lamp column when it will
quickly ascend and be purified with the heat.
One or more lights can be used in proportion to the size of the lamp.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare what I claim is the
particular construction of my lamp as shown at A B C & D on drawing and

page_text: for the purpose set forth also by the brilliancy of the light and destroying and
purifying power by heat generated in the chambers thus obviating the contami-
nation of the atmosphere by poisonous elements.
1. A strong withdrawer by the rarefaction of the air in the chambers.
2. The brilliancy of the light by the expansion of the gases with heat.
3. A powerfull cremator or microbe destroyer by the intense heat in three
chambers.