IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS BURNERS AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SAME.
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Cornelius William Morley, of 42, Clifton Road
East, St. John's Wood, London, N.W., for the Invention of
" IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS BURNERS AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE
SAME.
"
Sealed the 3rd March 1871, and dated the 7th September 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Cornelius William
Morley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 7th September 1870.
I, CORNELIUS WILLIAM MORLEY, of 42, Clifton Road East, St.
John's Wood, London, N.W., do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS BURNERS AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
THE SAME," to be as follows:-
These improvements consist in the inlet and chambers being con-
structed to deliver a wide volume of heated gas to the orifice or orifices
where ignition takes place at a low pressure, and in so arranging the
position and shape of the inlet and interior of the burner that the gas
may glide therein, and its pressure to the outlet or orifices
may be

page_text: increased, or by another method regulated and completely shut off
while burning without altering the position of the flame. This is chiefly
effected by a cavity being tapered to a small hole or inlet, which gradually
widens to another cavity or tube leading to a chamber from which the
gas passes through a quantity of holes placed in a cross direction to the
inlet into a second chamber, and thence through a piece of gauze of a
convex shape into a third chamber of a minimum width of seven-
sixteenths of an inch at its narrowest part where the outlet is fitted.
The supply to the outlet may be increased by enlarging the inlet with a
broach or other tool. By another method it is opened or closed by a
ball covered with leather or other soft material, and attached to a rack
which moves in the tube by a pinion wire inserted transversely through
the side of the burner, and turned with a key which projects from the
burner, and may be fixed or removed. This key points on an index
marked at the side of the burner for any pressure.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Cornelius William Morley in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 7th March 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CORNELIUS
WILLIAM MORLEY, of 42, Clifton Road East, Saint John's Wood,
London, N.W, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Cornelius William Morley, Her special licence
that I, the said Cornelius William Morley, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Cornelius William Morley, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "Improvements
IN GAS BURNERS AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SAME," upon the condition

page_text: (amongst others) that I, the said Cornelius William Morley, my exe-
cutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Cornelius William Morley, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the
Drawings attached and the letters added thereto as under, that is to
say:-
My Invention and improvements consist in the construction and
application in gas burners, Figures 1 and 3, of a rack c fitted to a
pinion wire b, so that by means of a movable key, Figure 2, the ball a
attached to and movable by the rack c may be at pleasure raised or
lowered, and thus the gas passing through the neck or inlet e into the
burner chamber f, and finally through the outlet g, may be increased or
decreased for any required pressure of gas and illumination without
moving the burner, Figures 1 and 3, or altering the position of the
flame, and also, if required, locked off to prevent the use of the gas by
unauthorised persons. This is chiefly effected by a cavity h being
tapered to a small hole or inlet e, which gradually widens into another
cavity or tube leading to a chamber f, from which the gas passes
through a quantity of holes ; in a partition placed in a cross direction to
the inlet e into a second chamber 1, and thence through a piece of gauze
of a convex shape m into a third chamber n of a minimum width of
seven-sixteenths of an inch at its narrowest part whereinto the outlet g
is fitted. The supply of gas to the outlet g may be increased by
enlarging the inlet e with a broach or other tool e, Figure 4.
By another method the inlet e is opened or closed by a ball a covered
with leather or other soft material, which ball a is attached to a rack c
which moves in the tube i by a pinion wire b inserted transversely
through the side of the burners, Figures 1 and 3, to be turned by a key,
Figure 2, which projects from the burner, and may be fixed or movable.
This key, Figure 2, points to an index o marked at the side of the
burner, Figure 1, for any pressure.

page_text: Now what I claim and which is herein-before described as my Invention
is, the construction and application in gas burners of the tube i with its
narrow neck or inlet e adapted to the ball a with its rack c fitted to the
pinion wire b, and the key, Figure 2, by means of the whole of which
the admission of gas into the burners, Figures 1 and 3, and thence to
the outlet for consumption may be increased, decreased, or locked off
as required.
In witness whereof, I, the said Cornelius William Morley, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.