Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1887
Complete Left, 25th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 25th Nov., 1887
1, JOHN FRANCIS WOODS of the Hoxton House Asylum, Hoxton in the County of
Middlesex, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to means for facilitating the ventilation or carrying off of the
products of combustion from ordinary gas burners carried by brackets, gasaliers
pendants or standards.
For this purpose I fix to the wall or ceiling a ventilating tube which has fixed at
its lower end a carrier of similar form to that employed with ordinary gas lights for
carrying a globe or other shaped glass but placed in reversed position, that is to say
upside down, by which means the ventilating tube is enabled to carry any ordinary
form of glass or shade which by hanging directly over the light will conduct the
products of combustion to the ventilating tube whence they will be conducted into the
open air or into other convenient place.
The ventilating glass or shade can be readily removed from its supporting or
carrying tube for cleaning or other purposes.
The improved ventilating means can be applied to any ordinary gas fitting without
the latter being in any way altered.

page_text: I, JOHN FRANCIS WOODS of the Hoxton House Asylum, Hoxton, in the County
of Middlesex, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, 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 invention relates to means for facilitating the carrying off of the products of
combustion from ordinary gas burners whother carried by brackets, gasaliers, pendents
or standards.
For this purpose I fix to the wall or ceiling a ventilating tube which has fixed at
its lower end, in a reversed position, that is to say upside down, a carrier or gallery
of similar forms to those employed with ordinary gas lights for carrying an ordinary
gas globe or other shaped glass formed with a retaining neck or flange, by which
means the ventilating tube is enabled to carry any ordinary form of glass or shade
which by hanging directly over the light will conduct the products of combustion to
the ventilating tube whence they will be conducted into the open air or into other
convenient place.
My invention is represented in the accompanying drawings at Figure 1 as applied
to an ordinary gas bracket and at Figure 2 as applied to an ordinary pendent burner.
In both figures like parts are indicated by similar letters of reference.
a is an ordinary gas burner which in the arrangement shown at Figure 1 is carried
by a bracket tube fixed to a wall in any ordinary manner. In the arrangement
represented at Figure 2 the burner a is carried by a pendent tube b*.
The burner a
carries in each case a gallery or holder e to carry a globe or other shaped glass d.
In order to carry off the products of combustion from the burner a, I according to
my invention fix to the wall or ceiling a ventilating tube e, the lower end of which is
immediately over the gas burner a and has fixed thereto in a reversed position, that
is to say, upside down, a carrier or holder f which may be of any ordinary form,
capable of holding, suspended thereform a glass or shade of any convenient shape
provided with a circular flange or neck g' by which it can be fixed to the holder or
carrier by means of adjusting screws for by means of two fixed claws and an
adjusting screw "as is well understood and commonly employed for supporting the
globe or glass of an ordinary gas burner.
By the aid of my invention any ordinary and existing gas fitting can be provided
with means for carrying off the products of combustion therefrom without in any
way altering or interfering with the said fitting whilst the ventilating glass or shade
can be readily removed from its supporting or carrying tube e for cleaning or other
purposes.

page_text: I would here remark that some descriptions of gas burners have been fitted with
ventilating tubes but in such cases the lamp and fittings have been of special con-
struction I do not therefore claim the employment broadly of a ventilating tube in
combination with gas burners.
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 :-
In combination with any ordinary and existing gas burner a ventilating tube e and
an ordinary carrier or holder substantially as herein shown and described and for
the purpose stated.