WOMEN DRAIN Improvements in Apparatus for Lighting Gas and other Lamps, Candles, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Mar,, 1899-Accepted, 2nd June, 1899
WOMEN DRAIN
Improvements in Apparatus for Lighting Gas and other Lamps,
Candles, and the like.
I, ADOLF BACHINER, of Blumenstrasse 76, Berlin, Germany, Imperial Ministerial
Counsellor, 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 relates to improvements in lighting devices of the kind in which
ignition is effected by means of the impact of a jet of combustible gas on catalytic
igniting material, hereinafter called the igniting body, and has for its object to
provide means whereby the igniting body is protected from injury either
mechanically or by the action of the atmosphere.
Two arrangements according to my invention are herein described one being
adapted for use in lighting oil lamps, candles, and the like; and the other being
designed for use in igniting gas lamps or the like.
Fig. 1 illustrates the first arrangement in elevation, partly in section.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the second arrangement, and
Fig. 3 is a detail view hereinafter more particularly referred to.
Referring to Fig. 1 a is a rod of any desired length carrying a cylinder & con-
taining a suitable quantity of gas, capable of acting on catalytic igniting bodies in
the well known manner. This gas may be generated in the cylinder itself or be intro-
duced therein. On the upper cover of the cylinder is a cock c, which can be
actuated from below by means of a cord d of about the same length as the rod a.
This cock communicates with a tube e that leads to a tube in which slides
telescopically another tube g which carries one or more igniting bodies of suitable
and known kind. The said body or bodies is or are surrounded by a protecting
cage, which is open at the bottom and over which is placed a removable cap k
that is connected to the flanged prolongation of the tube g. The object of this
cap is to protect the igniting body when not in use, against the injurious action of
dust, dampness, gases and the like. The apparatus is used as follows:-
If a lamp is to be ignited the cap is first taken off and the apparatus then
raised by the rod a to such a height that the igniting body h enters the lamp-
chimney. On the cord d being now pulled, the cock c will be opened, and the
gas in the cylinder 6 will flow through the tube e to the tube f, and, after passing
through g, impinge on the igniting body h which consequently becomes incan-
descent and effects the ignition of the gas. There is thus produced a jet long
enough to effect the ignition of the lamp-this occurring possibly simultaneously
with the introduction of the tubes f and g into the chimney. It is obvious that
any form of oil lamp, candle, or the like may thus be lighted independently of the
position or location of the same, and without its being necessary to remove the
chimney, if there be any. The action of the apparatus is reliable even in the
open air, and notwithstanding unfavourable conditions of weather.
The second arrangement is different from that first described in that the
cylinder 6 and its appurtenant parts are omitted, whereby an igniting device is

page_text: obtained that is adapted for use when lighting gas, and in which the gas that acts
on the igniting body is that which. issues from the burner.
In this modification which is illustrated in Fig. 2, the rod a has attached to its
upper end another short arm or rod r; the two rods being connected by means of
a ball-and-socket joint s, so that the short arm r is able to move freely within
certain limits. The arm carries at its lower end a flanged plate for the recep-
tion of the igniting body h, which is surrounded by a protecting cage i that is open
at the bottom. The flanged plate and the cage are, when the apparatus is not in
use, completely enclosed by the removable cap k shewn in Fig. 3.
This arrangement operates in the following manner:-
After the cap has been removed, the device is brought over the gas-burner_so
that the escaping gas impinges upon the igniting body h, the jet becoming thereby
ignited.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is: --
1. Automatic gas-actuated igniting apparatus comprising a catalytic igniting
body or bodies, a protecting cage surrounding same and a removable cap adapted
to enclose the said protecting cage and the igniting body or bodies within it so as
to protect the latter from injury, substantially as described.
2. In combination with apparatus according to the preceding claim, a cylinder b
that serves for the production or reception of gas and from which the gas necessary
for the heating of the igniting body or bodies escapes on the opening of the cock c,
such gas passing to the igniting body or bodies and thereby becoming ignited sub-
stantially as described.
3. In combination with apparatus according to Claim 1, a rod carrying the
igniting body and connected with another rod by a ball-and-socket joint, the
arrangement being such that the first mentioned rod is able to move relatively to
the other rod and thus enable the apparatus to be used for lighting gas jets in
various positions, substantially as described.
4. Apparatus for effecting the automatic ignition of gas and other lamps, candles
and the like, constructed and operating substantially as shewn in and described
with reference to Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings or to Figs. 2 and 3 thereof.
Dated this 30th day of March 1899.
F. WISE HOWORTH,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London,, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.