An Improvement in or applicable to Gas Burners.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 12th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1893
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or applicable to Gas Burners.
I CHARLES TAYLOR of 16 Regent Street Eccles in the County of Lancaster
Plumber and Gas Fitter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improvement in or applicable to gas burners or taps
the object of which is to afford ready and simple means for turning the light full on
or reducing it to a mere blue glimmer by merely pulling a cord or wire which may
becarried in any direction, and to any convenient distance.
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According to my invention I employ a tap of the class known as a "bye-pass
which is preferably provided at one end with a taper screw for screwing into the
straight or elbow pipe at the end of the supply pipe in place of the ordinary burner
and at the other end with a taper screwed hole into which an ordinary burner can
be screwed.
The plug of this tap is fitted with a lever provided with a weight or spring the
tendency of which is always to keep the tap with only a blue or glimmering light
or it may be the reverse if preferred, that is to say, fully open.
Fixed on the upper part of the tap below the burner is a light bracket or wire
provided with an eye and supporting on pivots a tumbling hook which is so
situated as to be within reach of a small pin or projection on the weighted or spring
lever above mentioned.
To the latter is fastened a string, cord or wire which is carried through the eye
of the bracket and then taken in any direction through fixed rings or staples or
over pulleys to the place from which it is desired that the gas tap may be
manipulated.
If it is arranged so that the weighted or spring lever keeps the tap ordinarily
closed so that only a blue or glimmering light is shown, when it is desired to have
a bright light it is only necessary to pull down the string cord or wire sufficiently
to raise the pin of the weighted or spring lever until it presses back the hook and
rises above the point thereof, and then release the string to allow the pin to fall
into the hook which will support the lever and keep the tap wide open.
When it is desired to reduce the light down to a blue glimmer, the string must
be pulled down further until the pin presses back and passes above a finger
projecting from the upper part of the tumbling hook and upon then releasing the
string cord or wire the weighted lever in falling throws the tumbling hook back
out of the way and falling down into its lowest position closes the tap.
When it is desired to shut off the gas altogether this is done by the ordinary
bracket tap.
Dated this ond dew of November 1805
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or applicable to Gas Burners.
I CHARLES TAYLOR of 16 Regent Street Eccles in the County of Lancaster,
Plumber and Gas Fitter, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improvement in or applicable to gas burners or taps

page_text: the object of which is to afford a ready and simple means for turning the light full
on or reducing it to a mere blue glimmer by merely pulling a cord or wire which
may be carried in any direction, and to any convenient distance.
My invention will be readily understood from the following description upon
reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings of which Figs. 1 2 and 3 are side
elevations illustrating the action of my invention as hereafter described and Fig. 4
is a plan view of Fig. 1.
According to my invention I employ a tap a of the class known as a "bye-pass"
which is preferably provided at one end with a taper screw a' for screwing into the
straight or elbow pipe at the end of the supply pipe in place of the ordinary burner
and at the other end a² with a taper screwed hole into which an ordinary burner b
can be screwed.
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I would here remark that it will be evident that instead of screwing the burner
itself into the end a² the tap a may be arranged to receive at the end a² a pipe or
elbow leading to the burner.
The plug of this tap is fitted with a lever e provided with a weight c¹ (or å
spring) the tendency of which is always to keep the tap with only a blue or
glimmering light; or it may be the reverse if preferred, that is to say,
fully open.
Fixed on the upper part of the tap below the burner is a light bracket or
wire d provided with an eye d' and supporting on pivots a tumbling hook e which
is so situated as to be within reach of a small pin or projection c² on the weighted
or spring lever e above mentioned.
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To the latter is fastened a string for a cord or wire which is carried through the
eye of the bracket d and then taken in any direction through fixed rings or
staples or over pulleys to the place from which it is desired that the gas tap may
be manipulated.
If it is arranged so that the weighted or spring lever c when in the position
shown in full lines on Fig. 1 keeps the tap a ordinarily closed so that only a blue
or glimmering light is shown, when it is desired to have a bright light it is only
necessary to pull the string (or the cord or wire) sufficiently to raise the pin c² of
the weighted or spring lever e until it presses back the hook e as shewn dotted on
Fig. 1 and rises above the point e¹ thereof, and then release the string to allow
the pin c² to fall into the hook e (as shewn in full lines on Fig. 2) which will support
the lever c and keep the tap a wide open.
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When it is desired to reduce the light down to a blue glimmer, the string f must
be pulled further until the pin a² presses back and passes above a finger or part e
projecting from the upper part of the tumbling hook e as shewn dotted on Fig. 2
and upon then releasing the string f (or cord or wire) the weighted levere in falling
throws the tumbling hook e back out of the way (as shown at Fig. 3) and falling
down into its lowest position (Fig. 1) closes the tap.
When it is desired to shut off the gas altogether this is done by the ordinary
bracket tap.
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 :-
The combination with a bye pass tap of a weighted or spring lever, cord (or its
equivalent) eye or guide and tumbling hook substantially as and for the purposes
hereinbefore described.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.