Improvements in and relating to the Suspension of Incandescent Gas Lamps.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 13th July, 1895-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Suspension of Incandescent
Gas Lamps.
FRANK ERNEST NICHOL, The Portobello Paper Mills Portobello Midlothian
Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
As the
An elastically (or spring) suspended frame (or holder) for use with the
incandescent gas burners as a preventor or destroyer of vibration.
incandescent gas burners cannot be used at present in mills & places where there is
vibration (the vibration rattling the mantle to pieces) I have overcome this
difficulty by making a wire (or metal) holder (or any other substance would do)
and by suspending it with elastic-(or springs could be used) the gas being
conducted by a rubber pipe thus all vibration is overcome & the mantles do not
get shaken to pieces. The frame may be made in any form.
Dated this 12th day of October 1894.
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Improvements in and relating to the Suspension of Incandescent
Gas Lamps.
1, FRANK ERNEST NICHOL, of The Portobello Paper Mills, Portobello,
Midlothian, Clerk, 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 this invention is to support the fitting to which a gas burner is
coupled or secured, by so suspending the said fitting that, an incandescent gas
mantle may be utilized in mills and other places where there is vibration, and thus
by my new combination to overcome the difficulty hitherto experienced in applying
and utilizing and thereby deriving an increased and better light by the use of
incandescent gas mantles when fixed to gas fittings secured to the gas supply in
places subject to shocks and vibrations.
The accompanying drawing illustrates how my invention may be applied to a gas
bracket attached to a wall or the like, and in describing my invention in detail,
reference is made to the letters on the drawing.
The gas bracket A is one of the ordinary description provided with the usual
stop tap, but without a gas burner having a metallic connection with the said
bracket.
To the vertical portion of the gas bracket at B. is attached a piece of flexible
tube C. which is also connected to the gas burner fitting D. arranged to carry a
glass chimney E and an incandescent mantle M within same, both of which are
Eupported in the usual manner.
To the gas burner fitting D is secured a light inetallic frame F. or other suitable
attachment which is suspended from some fixture in any convenient manner by one
or more elastic cords or spiral springs G so that should any shock or vibration be

page_text: given to the gas bracket A. the shock or vibration is not conveyed direct to the
gas burner fitting D. and incandescent mantle M supported thereby, but absorbed
to a great extent by the flexible connecting tube C. and suspending cords or
springs G in a manner that, no shock is transmitted to the mantle of a nature as to
damage same; thus by this arrangement and combination overcoming the difficulty
hitherto experienced with the use and maintainance of incandescent mantles in
places subject to shocks and vibrations.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A gas burner fitting combined with a flexible connecting tube and suspended by
one or more elastic cords or springs connected thereto, all arranged substantially
in the manner as shown and described and for the purpose as hereinbefore set
forth.