IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS BURNERS
Year: 1841

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEREMIAH
BYNNER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Lamp Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Second day of November, in the fifth year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Jeremiah
Bynner, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
I, the said Jeremiah Bynner, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Jeremiah Bynner, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS BURNERS;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso that I, the said Jeremiah Bynner, shall cause a par-
ticular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being.
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said.
Jeremiah Bynner, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):-

page_text: The improvements which are the object of the present Patent consist in the
peculiar manner in which the air is conducted to gas burners, whereby
the quiescence in the burning of gas is produced, flickering diminished, and
the combustion made more complete. In gas burners now used, the air rushes
to the flame in violent currents uninterrupted except by the parts of the
burner and the glass-holder generally adopted:
My improvements consist in forcing the air necessary for the combustion
of the gas to divide itself into small jets or filaments before entering the
chimney glass or the interior of the burner. The manner in which these
improvements are effected will be understood by the following description,
reference being had to the accompanying Drawings.
First, that portion of air which is necessary for combustion, by passing
through the centre of the burner, is made to pass through a cylinder or piece
of other form of metal or other material
rial affixed to the burner by an under
solid plate, and in the sides of which are perforated a number of small holes,
through which alone the air can enter (see D, Figures 1 and 4).
Second; the air which is necessary for combustion, by passing to the exterior
of the flame, is made to pass through a plate serving as a glass-holder for the
chimney glass, in which are also perforated a number of small holes through
which alone the air can pass (see Figures 1, 2, and 3).
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a section of a gas burner with the improvements
applied; Figure 2, an edge view of the perforated plate or glass-holder;
Figure 3, an under side view of the perforated plate or glass-holder; Figure 4,
an external view of an ordinary gas burner with the perforated cylinder
applied. The same letters indicate the same parts in all the Figures. A,
the chimney glass; B, the exterior ring, which being screwed to the glass-
holder fixes the chimney glass; C, glass-holder perforated, and thereby affording
passages for the air to the exterior of the flame; but so constructed; with a
ring fitting closely to the burner, that the air required for the exterior of the
flame cannot be directed to the interior; D, the perforated cylinder giving
passages to the air required for the combustion by passing to the interior of
the flame, and attached to the burner by the solid plate (b), which plate has.
a centre hole through which the gas tube passes; E, a gas burner with the
plate (b) at bottom, and the upper projection F, to which the perforated
cylinder D is affixed. Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8 shew similar views of another
burner, differing slightly from that already described.
I know that various modes of regulating the supply of air to gas burners..

page_text: have been adopted, but I wish it to be understood that I consider the peculiar
characteristic of the present Invention, and that on which I rest my claim
to this Patent, consists in dividing or filamenting the currents of air in their
passage to the exterior and interior of gas burners in the manner which has
been described.
I am aware that currents of air in their passage to gas burners can be
filamented in other modes than by passing them through circular holes in
plates of metal, and in other forms than in those drawn. And whilst I claim
as my Invention the filamenting of the currents of air on the principle
described, I prefer the mode by circular holes in metal plates.
The preceding description applies only to gas burners having an internal
current of air on the argand system; but I claim, equally, the application of
dividing or filamenting the currents of air to gas burners of every description
on the principle before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jeremiah Bynner, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-two.