IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS LIGHTING APPARATUS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Saul Myers, of Vale Terrace, Sutherland Gardens,
Maida Vale, London; in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS LIGHTING APPARATUS."-A communication
from abroad by Elijah Myers, of New York, United States of
- America.
Scaled the 20th December 1872, and dated the 8th August 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Saul Myers at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th August-1872.
I, SAUL MYERS, of Vale Terrace, Sutherland Gardens, Maida Vale,
London, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS LIGHTING APPARATUS," a commu-
nication to me from abroad by Elijah Myers, of New York, United
States of America, to be as follows:-
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The improvements communicated to me. are more especially adapted
for use by persons requiring good light, such as compositors, and for such
purposes as reading, writing, and sewing, the light produced by the
improved apparatus being greatly increased by concentration, while
at the same time it is made soft, cool, and pleasant, and, such as will
not iniure the eves.

page_text: The Invention consists in arranging and combining an hemispherical
cup, made by preference of flint glass, and supported by a light metal
frame under a gas flame, which is placed in a horizontal and not in
the ordinary vertical position. The hemispherical cup is filled with
water (or other suitable liquid), and may be colored when required to
modify the light. The metál frame of the hemispherical cup is secured
to the gas fixing, and the gas pipe is in some cases arranged on a joint,
so as to be turned into the ordinary vertical position when a more
diffused light is required.
The accompanying Drawing, Figure 1, is a side view illustrating the 1
Invention. a, gas supply pipe; b, light metal frame attached to supply
pipe to carry the hemispherical cup c filled with suitable liquid; d,
burner, the flat side of the frame e being parallel to the surface of the
liquid. The pipe for the burner may be jointed at d³, so as to turn when
required into the vertical position shown in dotted line.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent.
filed by the said Saul Myers in the Great Scal Patent Office on
the 5th February 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAUL
MYERS, of Vale Terrace, Sutherland Gardens, Maida Vale, London, in
the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Saul Myers, Her special license that I,
the said Saul Myers, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Saul Myers, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS LIGHTING
APPARATUS," a communication to me from abroad, by Elijah Myers, of

page_text: New York, United States of America, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Saul Myers, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and scal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
5 and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Saul Myers, do hereby declare.
the nature of tho said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
O performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and the accompanying Drawings (that is to
say) :-
The improvements communicated to me are more especially adapted
for use by persons requiring good .light, such as compositors, and for
5 such purposes as reading, writing, and sewing (though useful for other
purposes), the light produced by the improved apparatus being greatly
increased by concentration, while at the same time it is made soft, cool,
and pleasant, and such as will not injure the eyes.
The Invention consists in arranging and combining an hemispherical
cup, or globular or other similarily shaped vessel, made by preference of
flint glass, and supported by a light-metal frame under a gas or other
flame, which is placed in a horizontal and not in the ordinary vertical
position. The hemispherical cup, or globular or other similar shaped
vessel is filled with water (or other suitable liquid), which may be
5 colored when required to modify the light. The metal frame of the
hemispherical cup, or globular or other similar shaped vessel, is secured
to the gas fixing or other pipe or means of producing the light; such
gas or other pipe is in some cases arranged on a joint, so as to be
turned into the ordinary.vertical position when a more diffused light is
O required.
In the accompanying Drawings Fig. 1 is a side view illustrating the
Invention.. a, gas or other light supply pipe; b, light metal frame
attached to. supply pipe to carry the hemispherical cup c filled with
suitable liquid; d, burner, the flat side of the frame e being parallel to
5 the surface of the liquid. The pipe for the burner may be jointed at ď³,
so as to turn when required into the vertical position shown in dotted
linc.
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