Improvements in Vapour Lamps.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 6th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 8th Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Vapour Lamps.
I, GEORGE ROSE of 105 Bishop Street, Glasgow, Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in vapour lamps and it has for
its object to improve the construction of such lamps.
In carrying out my invention I make the gas or vapour generating chamber of
one or more tubes which are or may be angled relatively with one another and have
cleaning plugs at the angles.
Made in one with the tubes is a hollow generating-chamber closed at bottom by
a screw plug. The burner nipple which is fitted on or in one of the branches of
the tubes, or tube, has on it a cylindrical piece, with air induction holes, and a
coned delivery tube or director. The flame plays downwards and heats up the
chamber, generating the gas or vapour therein, which vapour passes up the tube or
tubes to the burner nipple and issues therefrom in a powerful and bright flame.
The air being admitted to the flame before it passes out through the director
ensures perfect or nearly perfect combustion.
The chamber and tubes are preferably cast all in one piece for cheapness. If
desired the inductor and director may also be cast in one with the tubes and
chamber, in this case the burner nipple would be inserted from the back of the
tube or branch carrying the inductor.
The director may be made with a flange or have a washer on it to prevent any
products of combustion entering the inductor.
Instead of using an inductor of the construction hereinbefore set forth it may be
in the form of a tee or cross piecc.
The burner may be supported on a bent stand pipe the lower end of which is or
may be fitted in a stuffing box screwed into or fitted on the oil tank. The stuffing
box is combined or made one with an oil supply regulating valve.
A sliding pan for starting the lamp is or may be fitted on the bent stand tube.
Dated this 5th day of November 1891.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Vapour Lamps.
I, GEORGE ROSE, of 105 Bishop Street, Glasgow, Engineer, 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 certain improvements in vapour lamps and it has for
its object to improve the construction of such lamps.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood, I have here-
unto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the lamp bead or burner.
Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.
Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the flame director or mixing chamber.
In carrying out my invention I make the generating chamber of the lamp of,
preferably, three tubes a, b, c, the tubes a, c being made at an angle, preferably a
right angle, to the tube and having cleaning plugs d, e at their ends. The three
b, c are cast all in one piece. Made in one with the tubes is a hollow
tubes
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page_text: generating gas or vapour chamber which is closed at one end by a cleaning
plug g. The chamber has a socket h which screws on to the stand tube i of the
lamp. The burner nipple is fitted into one end of a cross & cast on the tube c.
is a cleaning plug for cleaning out the passage way in the cross k and the burner
nipple. A director m is screwed over the burner nipple and encloses its extremity.
This director is hollow and of conic shape and is provided with air induction
openings n, o.
.
The burner may be fitted on the stand tube in the manner shown at Fig. 1 so
as to deliver the flame in a horizontal direction; or the stand tube i may have a
bent pipe connection fitted on it so that the burner may be supported in a vertical
position and the flame (shown in dotted lines) be directed downwards on the
chamber f
The flame playing on the chamber, converts, by its intense heat, the oil
therein into vapour or gas which passes along the rectangular arrangement of
tubes to the burner nipple from whence it issues (after being ignited) in a
powerful and bright flame. As air is admitted to the flame before it passes out
through the director m, perfect or nearly perfect combustion is thereby ensured.
As the chamber and tubes a, b, c, and cross k are all cast in one the lamp head
can be made very cheaply.
If desired the inductor and director may also be cast in one with the tubes, and
chamber, in this case the burner nipple would be inserted from the back of the
cross carrying the inductor.
The director may be made with a flange or have a washer on it to prevent any
products of combustion entering the inductor.
The burner may be supported on a bent stand pipe the lower end of which is or
may be fitted in a stuffing box screwed into or fitted on the oil tank. The stuffing
box is or may be combined or made one with an oil supply regulating valve.
A sliding pan for starting the lamp is or may be fitted on the bent stand tube.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In vapour lamps a head or burner made substantially as herein before described
and shown on the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of September 1892.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.