Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1888
Specification Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1889
I, ORSON WILLIAMS BENNETT of 1503 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D. C.
United States of America, Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of my invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in Gas Pressure Regulators especially
applicable to single or separate burners in which two or more opposing currents
tend to neutralize the excess of pressure required to maintain a proper city service.
Two or more passages in opposition to each other leading to a single passage cause
the parts of the divided current to impinge against each other and the flow is thus
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retarded in proportion to the pressure or force of the branches of the current.
approximately constant pressure is thus obtained and maintained at and beyond the
junction of the opposing branches, notwithstanding the fact that the pressure from
behind may vary to a considerable extent.
The invention consists in an automatic check or regulating plug for gas burners
provided with axial passages at one, an annular reduction or passages along the
periphery of the other end, and centripetal passages opposite each other leading from
the peripheral passages to the axial passage.
In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figures 1 and 2 are sections
of a gas burner complete with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 3 is a check in
elevation showing passages along the sides leading to the centripetal passages.
Figs. 4 and 5 are sections of different forms of check to be inserted within the
pillar.
A is the pillar, and B is the tip of an ordinary gas burner, which together constitute
a complete burner.
(is my improved automatic check plug having an annularly-reduced end or side
channels cc, the centripetal passages cc and the axial passage c². This check plug
is slightly conical at one end and of a size to be inserted into and removed from the
interior of the pillar.
It may be made integral with or attached to the tip, as shown in Fig. 1 of the
drawings, thus constituting a self regulating tip or as shown in the other figurs of

page_text: the drawings, as a soparate piece adapted to be inserted through the lower end of the
pillar and held in place by friction. This check may become a distinct article.of
manufacture to be sold for application and use with the ordinary burner-pillar.
It should be observed that as the chock. part of the burner regulates the amount of
gas to be consumed, relatively large tips should be used with it. A greater amount
of light is obtained with a given amount of gas in this way than would otherwiso be
the case, because in a city service there must be a pressure in excess of the best
conditions in order that a large number of consumers may be fully supplied. This
check plug being detachable may be removed from the pillar for the purpose of cleaning
and for the purpose of being replaced by another of different capacity or to convert the
whole to the ordinary form of burner as occasion may require or judgment dictate.
In practice I make the lower end of the check only slightly smaller than the
body part, but, that there may be a full supply of gas to the centripetal passages
I make an annular groove around the plug leading directly to the mouth of the said
passages.
I do not claim broadly a burner or pressure regulating device provided with
opposing passages nor do I claim a removable cylindrical check plug made to fit the
inside of the burner pillar, but
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
The combination with the ordinary pillar of a gas burner, of a pressure regulating
plug made to fit inside and detachably connected with said pillar, the plug being
provided with passages along the sides at one end, an axial passago leading from the
other end and opposing or centripetal passages, leading from the outside passages to
the axial passage, said centripetal or opposing passages leading toward one another to
a point where the jets of gas issuing therefrom will impinge directly against one
another, substantially as described.