Improvements in Apparatus for Gas Heating Curling Tongs, Shaving Water, and for other like Purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Nov., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 24th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 15th Oct., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Gas Heating Curling Tongs, Shaving
Water, and for other like Purposes.
We, RICHARD THOMAS GLOVER and JOHN GEORGE GLOVER, of the Firm Thomas
Glover and Co. Ld., 214 to 222, St. John Street, Clerkenwell, London, Gas Meter
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, the construction of an attachment to an ordinary
gas burner from or by which apparatus a gas light can be obtained from a nipple
thereon, and also by a branch tube as part of same, a Bunsen or atmospheric
Hame can be obtained, the Bunsen flame issuing through slits or openings in the
tube to impinge against the prongs of a pair of curling tongs passed horizontally
through or on and supported by wings which are preferably slotted for the pur-
pose, the opening for the entrance of air to the atmospheric burner being at the
lower part of the branch tube.
The wings or one of them may be notched and the notch or notches can be used
for centralizing a water vessel, such water vessel being also, if desired, provided
with straddle legs to rest upon and be supported by the branch tube.
The vessel has a somewhat broad mouth projecting upwardly and into which a
shaving brush can be dipped for lathering purposes.
The legs of the vessel serve as supports when not on the heater and a handle
serves to move the vessel about.
The attachment which fits over an ordinary gas burner is of cone shape to go
over any size of burner and to lodge firmly when placed thereon.
By this invention, the article can be affixed over an ordinary burner and have
the advantage of showing a light from the nipple and simultaneously heating
the curling tongs, the water vessel for shaving, or other purpose for which the heat
would be required, and the article may be provided with a tap or taps for shutting
off either the luminous burner, or the atinospheric burner, or both.
The apparatus may be in the form of an ordinary gas bracket.
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Improvements in Apparatus for Gas Heating Curling Tongs, Shaving
Water, and for other like Purposes.
We, RICHARD THOMAS GLOVER, and JOHN GEORGE GLOVER, of the Firm Thomas
Glover and Co. Ld. 214 to 222, St. John Street, Clerkenwell, London, Gas Meter

page_text: Manufacturers, 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:-
This invention has for object, the construction of an attachment to an ordinary
gas burner from or by which apparatus a gas light can be obtained from a nipple
thereon, and also by a branch tube as part of same, a Bunsen or atmospheric
Hame can be obtained, the Bunsen Hame issuing through slits or openings in the
tube to impinge against the prongs of a pair of curling tongs passed horizontally
through or on and supported by wings which are preferably slotted for the pur-
pose, the opening for the entrance of air to the atmospheric burner being at the
lower part of the branch tube.
The wings or one of them may be notched and the notch or notches can be used
for centralizing a water vessel, such water vessel being also, if desired, provided
with straddle legs to rest upon and be supported by the branch tube.
The vessel has a somewhat broad mouth projecting upwardly and into which a
shaving brush can be dipped for lathering purposes.
The legs of the vessel serve as supports when not on the heater and a handle
serves to move the vessel about.
The attachment which fits over an ordinary gas burner is of cone shape to go
over any size of burner and to lodge firuly when placed thereon.
By this invention, the article can be affixed over an ordinary burner and have
the advantage of showing a light from the nipple and simultaneously heating
the curling tongs, the water vessel for shaving, or other purpose for which the heat
would be required, and the article may be provided with a tap or taps for shutting
off either the luminous burner, or the atmospheric burner, or both.
The apparatus may be in the form of an ordinary gas bracket.
Our invention will be clearly understood by reference to the annexed drawings.
According to Figure 1, the end of an ordinary gas branch is represented by
dotted lines A on which is a thimble B shown in section and lined with a cloth or
a rubber ferrule C for closeness of fit over the nipple and burner end A.
Above the thimble B and from a globular body D is a branch E with tap F
provided with a spit jet G for spitting the gas from E over the air inlet open-
ing H formed in the lower or under side of the tube 1 which constitutes an air and
gas mixing chamber for issue from the slits J, J, in upper rear part of the tube I
as a blue or Bunsen flame of great heating power which impinges against the
prongs K, K, of a pair of curling tongs pushed through slots L (see Figure 2)
of plates M. M. and over the flame to be heated, the plates M, M, stand up above
the tube 1, and in addition to the slots for the curling tongs they are provided
with one or more notches N, one only being shown, in which a somewhat long
water vessel R can be placed, such as for heating water for shaving purposes, the
vessel having a mid feather 1', see Figure 3, to enter the notches N, N, and tu
rest upon the shoulders Q, Q. The water vessel R, see Figure 3, may have
splayed out feet R, RI, to enable it to stand upon a table when lifted from the gas
heater.
The bulbous body D is surmounted by an ordinary gas burner and nipple S so
that whether the heater be alight or not, the tap and nipple S can be used for
ordinary lighting purposes by an open flame, or by a mantle in the well known
manner.
So far as Figure 1 is concerned for heating curling tongs, we repeat it on the
elevation, Figure 4, with a swivel joint U, and instead of placing the water vessel
over the heater tube, we from the same bulbous body D arrange a separate heater
for water, the vessel for which can be suspended from the hook V of an adjustable
ferrule or collar W and capable of being pinched at a convenient height on the
upright X by the pinch screw Y.
The water heater of this arrangement for a Bunsen Hame is on the end of the

page_text: branch I' in the shape of a cup Z as the mixing chamber with a perforated top for
the issue of the flame.
In all other respects this figure agrees with Figure 1 and so far as the several
parts are respectively identified, the same letters of reference agree.
One of the advantages of this double branch method of heating is, the curling
tongs and shaving water heater can be on one side of the bracket, and water for
a cup of tea or coffee heated at the other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:
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1. The apparatus shown at Figure 1 as an attachment to an ordinary gas burner
and nipple and by which by atmospheric or Bunsen flame, curling tongs, shaving
water can be heated together or separately with the advantage of an open flame
simultaneously therewith as set forth.
2. As an apparatus for the purposes described, the employment from the same
main branch or bracket, of separate heater appliances from opposite sides of the
main branch or bracket, as represented and as described with reference to Figure 4.
The 4th day of
1000
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Richard Thomas Glover and John George Glover.