Improvements in and connected with Gas Brackets and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 13th Nov., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Gas Brackets and the like.
I, JOHN FINDLAY, of 29 West Burn Street, Greenock, in the County of Renfrew,
North Britain, Gas 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:-
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This invention which relates to improvements in gas fittings has for its object
a portable fitting or attachment which is readily attachable to and detachable
from the extremity of a wall bracket or gasalier at will and by a person inex-
perienced in any form of gas fitting and which said attachment unites a two-fold
function of bestowing as hitherto an illuminant gas jet and branch extension
whereby a supply of gas may be led from such bracket or gasalier to a stove
radiator or analogous heating appliance. In accordance with my invention the
gas may be burnt at the gas jet (with which the fitting is provided) and by the
stove or radiator simultaneously or may conveniently be used at only one of such
positions or it may be entirely turned off from both.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect I have hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings in the three
figures of which corresponding parts are marked with the same letters of reference.
Figure 1, is a part. side elevation of an ordinary wall gas bracket to which my
invention is applicable. Figure 2, is a similar view of such bracket showing
my invention applied thereto and Figure 3, illustrates my invention applied to an
ordinary gasalier a part of which only is shewn.
Over the threaded neck A, of the bracket B, the lower bulbous part C, of the
fitting or attachment D, is screwed. To enable this to be done expeditiously and
with greater facility the flexible tube may be removed temporarily.
Centrally within the bulb C, an ordinary four-way stop cock E, is mounted.
It is to be understood that the stop cock in itself forms no part of my invention
but in combination with the attachment it unites very essential features of
advantage for, due to its construction the gas may be led and burnt both at the
jet F and conveyed by the flexible connection G, to the stove or radiator (not.
shewn on the drawings) or the gas may be used at the jet F, or vice versa at the
stove or radiator only.
As an alternative of the last named arrangement in lieu of a four-way cock
the part of the attachment leading to the jet F, is provided with a stop cock H,
having any of the well known three way passages. Or instead of passing the gas
through the stop-cock H, which is to be used with the stove or radiator it may
be led direct from the gas bracket to the stop cock H¹. The branch extension I,
leading as aforesaid to the heating appliance is also furnished with a stop-cock H
with a two way passage by which means the gas may be turned off from that
exit.
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:-
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page_text: a gas bracket or the like by means of a screw coupling substantially as described
and shewn on the drawings.
2. The general arrangement and combination of parts operating substantially
as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and shewn on the drawings.
ated this 12th day of October 1897.
JOHN FINDLAY,
29 West Burn Street, Greenock, Applicant.