IMPROVEMENTS IN DECORATIVE ILLUMINATIONS, AND IN APPLYING LIGHT FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1852

page_text: PHILLIPS SPECIFI
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HENRY PHILLIPS, of No. 3, Grosvenor Place, Camberwell New Road, in the
County of Surrey, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the First day of June, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the fifteenth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William
Henry Phillips, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William Henry Phillips, my
exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Henry Phillips,
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-Town, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN DECORATIVE ILLUMINATIONS, AND IN APPLYING LIGHT FOR OTHER PURPOSES;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said William Henry
Phillips, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, to be enrolled in Her 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
William Henry Phillips, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Inven-

page_text: tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being
had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in the use of chambers and tubes made to receive
coal gas or inflammable vapour, the chambers or tubes being arranged in a
manner that decorative illuminations are produced by jets of burning gas or
vapour, without the necessity of bending pipes and brazing them together into
the form of a device, as now practised in gas illuminations, and in means of
changing the appearance of an illumination from one device to other
devices.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a chamber made to receive gas or inflam-
mable vapour; Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same; Figure 3 is a
horizontal section of the same; A and B are plates of metal forming a narrow
close chamber, the front plate A being perforated with any appropriate device;
C, C, are gas service pipes; Figure 4 is a front elevation of a chamber made
to receive gas; Figure 5 is a vertical section of the same; Figure 6 is a
horizontal section.
In addition to the gas chamber formed by the plates D and E, this appa-
ratus has a sliding plate F, which is made to move by using the wynch screw
G, or by other suitable leverage, whereby a number of perforations forming a
device on the surface of plate D are brought to open into corresponding perfo-
rations on the plate F. By turning the wynch G, the plate F is moved in order
to shut off one device and open the perforations of a different device, and so on
with any convenient number of devices. The gas chamber D, E, is made
narrow, being enlarged at E*, Figure 6, to enclose the supply pipe H; the
sliding plate F is here shown detached from its place; the supply pipe H is
closed at H*, and is perforated, as shown at Figure 5, to allow the gas to be
diffused into the chamber D, E; Figure 7 is a front elevation of apparatus
formed of tubes or pipes; Figure 8, a vertical section of the same; J and K
are frame pipes supplied with gas from the pipes M and N; O, a stop-cock
for opening and closing the gas ways between the service pipe P and the pipes
M and N; Q, Q, connecting rods; R, R, R, a set of pipes equidistant from
each other, being stopped off at the upper end and open at the lower ends,
where they enter into the pipe J; these pipes R, R, R, are perforated with a
device shown at R, R, R, Figure 7; S, S, S, a set of pipes equidistant from
each other, being stopped at the lower end and open at the upper end, where
they enter into the pipe K; these pipes S, S, S, are perforated, as shown at
S, S, S, Figure 7. The chamber formed by the plates A, B, Figures 1, 2, 3,

page_text: is supplied with gas or inflammable vapour from a gas main or suitable gene-
rator, and when the air has been driven out of the chamber, the gas issuing
from the jets in the front of plate A being lighted, forms a decorative illumi-
nation. The chamber formed by the plates D and E, Figures 4, 5, 6, is supplied
with gas, and by the use of the wynch G, the perforations forming a device on
the plate F are brought into. juxtaposition with corresponding perforations in
the plate D, when the jets of gas issuing from the open perforations are lighted
and form an illuminating device; when a different device is to be displayed,
the plate F is moved by means of the wynch screw G, until perforations of the
required device in plate F correspond with similar perforations in the plate D,
and so on for other devices.
In the apparatus Figure 7, the gas issuing from the perforations of one set
of pipes being lighted, an illuminative device appears, which device is made to
disappear by turning off the supply of gas by means of a tap or taps, and a
different illuminative device appears by opening the supply to another set of
pipes.
I do not confine myself to any particular form of gas chamber, nor to any
particular plan of opening or closing the jets or gas ways, a. principle of my
Invention being the producing decorative illuminations by jets of light without
bending pipes into the form of the device, as hitherto practised in gas illumi-
nations, and means of changing the devices during the time of illumination.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Henry Phillips, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of November, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1852, the aforesaid William Henry Phillips came before
our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.