IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING LIGHT
Year: 1849

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AMBROISE
ADOR, of Paris, in the Republic of France, 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 Twenty-fourth day of
November, One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in the thirteenth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said. Ambroise Ador, my, exors, adñiors, and assigns, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Ambroise
Ador, my exors, adñors, and assigns, and such others as I, the said Ambroise
Ador, my exors, adiñors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
し
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 PRODUCING LIGHT;" in which said Letters Patent...is; con-
tained a proviso,, that I, the said Ambroise Ador, should 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
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!
and at large appear.
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more fully
NOW KNOW. YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Ambroise Ador, do hereby declare that. the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: 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 Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon
(that is to say):-
My Invention consists of combining apparatus for vaporizing hydrocarbon
with and intermediate of a gas burner, and the tube which supplies it with.
gas, in order to improve the combustion of gas supplied to the burner; and
in order that my Invention may be most fully understood and readily carried
into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING..
The Drawing shews a vertical section of an apparatus in combination with
a gas burner according to my Invention. a is an ordinary argand burner. b
is the glass chimney. c is a thimble or deflector of platina. d is a sperical
vessel; the shape of this vessel may, however, be varied.
e, e, are two tubes
leading from the vessel d to the burner .a, so that the gas and the other pro-
ducts hereafter mentioned become heated, and then pass to the gas burner a.
From the vessel d there is a tube f which passes into the spherical vessel g;
the shape of this vessel may, however, be varied, and it is by means of this
tubef that heat is conducted from the vessel d to the fluid in the vessel g, so
as to vaporize it. h is a tube leading from a gas main, by which gas is sup-
plied to the vessel g, and thence through the vessel d to the burner a, the gas
mixing with the vapour or product from the liquid in the vessel, as will readily
be understood on examination of the Drawing. Hydrocarbon is to be placed
in the vessel g, and such vessel is to be kept supplied therewith from time to
time, as the same becomes consumed. The effect of this arrangement will
be that on the gas burner a being lighted the vessel d will become heated, and
such vessel being of metal will quickly conduct the heat to the vessel g, by
which a portion of the liquid will become vaporized, and the gas and vapour
will together pass into the vessel d and become highly heated, and in such
heated state will pass from the vessel d to the burner, which the combustion
of gas will be greatly improved, the intensity of height increased, and the
means of obtaining light cheapened. I would remark, that I am aware that
gas apparatus has before been so arranged that the gas flowing to a burner has
been heated in its passage to the burner by the flame rising from such burner.
And I am also aware that in other cases hydrocarbons have been before
vaporized in a vessel heated by a flame resulting from the burning of a vapor
of hydrocarbon passing from such heated vessel to the burner; I do not, there-
fore, claim either of such arrangements of apparatus separately. And I

page_text: would state that I do not confine myself to the details herein shewn and
described, so long as the peculiar character of my Invention be retained.
But what I claim is the combining apparatus for varporizing hydrocarbon
with and intermediate of a gas burner, and the tube which supplies it
with gas.
In witness witness whereof, I, the said Ambroise Ador, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of May, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the oath of Samuel Carpmael, the
Specification aforesaid was enrolled word for word as above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
made for that purpose.
made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty.
Enrolled the Twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty.