Improvements in and connected with Gas-lighting Appliances.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1895--Accepted, 18th Jan., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Gas-lighting Appliances.
1, HENRY TOMLINSON, Grocer, 18 Astley Road, Hemel Hempstead, Herts,.
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 :-
The object of my invention is to obtain instantly a full, or as desired a more or
less full light from a gas burner. In carrying out my invention I provide a
horizontal gas burner giving only a very small but a continuous flame. This
horizontal burner may be suitably screwed or otherwise attached to any gas
bracket, and is provided near the burner end with a connecting pipe opening into-
it and pointing upwards or downwards, but preferably downwards. The lower end
of the connecting pipe (assuming for the purpose of this invention that it points.
downwards) is provided with a socket, in which works the end of a short pipe
parallel with the horizontal one carrying the small gas jet. The other end of the
short pipe is provided with an ordinary gas burner standing up from the short
pipe. The end of the short pipe which works in the socket above mentioned is
formed so as to constitute with the socket a stop cock, and by turning the small
pipe to the right or left the gas supply is entirely, or more or less shut off from
the ordinary gas burner already mentioned. The length of the short pipe is such
that the gas burner at its end may be brought immediately under the small
continuously burning jet at the end of the horizontal pipe. When so brought
under the small jet the gas is turned full on, and by turning the ordinary burner
to the right or left the gas is more or less turned off, and when the ordinary
burner has passed through 90 degrees the gas goes out entirely the small jet still
continuing to burn ready to light the burner again when turned up vertically.
Such a gas lighting appliance as is here described would be invaluable for
tradesmen, private individuals, and others. The former would only need to light.
the small jet the first thing in the morning and a full light can be had at any
moment and as often as required by simply raising the burner as above described
into the vertical position. This would obviate loss of time in hunting for matches,
and the danger attending the throwing down of partly extinguished ones. For-
private use in cellars, bed-rooms and other parts of the house the conveniences are
obvious.
To facilitate the understanding of my invention I annex a sheet of drawings in.
which, Fig. 1 is a side view, and Fig. 2 a front view.
In each figure similar letters refer to the same parts.
a is the horizontal pipe. the small gas jet intended to be kept burning as long
as a light is likely to be required. c is the connecting tube opening into b and
having a socket d at the end, e is the short pipe having an ordinary buruer f at the
end. 9 is the ordinary bracket to which a is screwed or otherwise attached. his
the usual gas tap. In Fig. 2 the full lines show the ordinary burner when turned
up and fully lighted, the dotted lines at i and i show it turned partly down and
giving a small flame, and j and show it turned right down and the flame out.
In Fig. 2 the burner is shown as if turned through a semi-circle and it may be
so made if desired, but in practice I intend to make it only turn through 90 degrees,.
by furnishing it with stops to prevent it going beyond the horizontal and vertical.
positions.

page_text: The appliance can be made of any metal, pottery-ware, or other suitable metal
or combination of any or all of them; and I do not confine myself to any
particular shape, relative position or disposition of parts, as any or all of them
may be considerably varied without departing from the spirit of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
CLAIM.
In gas lighting appliances the combination of a horizontal pipe having a small
jet burner at one end with a vertical connecting pipe having a socket in which
turns a suitably formed end of another pipe (the socket and end constituting a stop
cock) and the last mentioned pipe having at its end an ordinary burner which can
be fully lighted by bringing it into a vertical position, under the small jet burner
or extinguished by bringing it into a horizontal position, the whole substantially as
described in the above Specification, and exemplified in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 13th day of December 1895
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.