AN IMPROVED SELF-REGULATING GAS BURNER."
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Xavier Kukla, of Pentonville Road, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED SELF-REGULATING
GAS BURNER."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Xavier Kukla
at the Office of the Commissioners of, Patents, with his Petition, on
the 3rd August 1860.
I, FRANCIS XAVIER KUKLA, of Pentonville Road, in the County of Middlesex,
5 do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED SELF-
REGULATING GAS BURNER," to be as follows:-
My said improved self-regulating gas burner is made in two parts, to screw
or to be otherwise connected together. The lower part of the said burner is
provided with a nipple, and the said nipple is covered with a loosè cap, which
rises by the pressure of the gas, and acts as a valve for regulating the passage
of the same. Over the cap and nipple is screwed the top part of the said
burner, and the interior of the same is made conical, by which means in
proportion as the cap. is raised the annular space round the same is diminished,
and the emission of gas is decreased. Above the said conical part of the
burner is placed a coil of fine wire, through which the gas passes on its way
to the aperture of the said burner. Gas burners constructed as above
described regulate and economize the consumption of gas, and effect it's
thorough combustion.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Francis Xavier Kukla in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd February 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
XAVIER KUKLA, of Pentonville Road, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Francis Xavier Kukla, Her special licence that I, the said Francis Xavier
Kukla,, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Francis Xavier Kukla, 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
"AN IMPROVED SELF-REGULATING GAS BURNER," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Francis Xavier Kukla, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, 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 Francis Xavier Kukla, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto. annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
My said improved self-regulating gas burner is made in two parts, to screw
or be otherwise connected together. The lower part of the said burner is
provided with a nipple, and the said nipple is covered with a loose cap, which
rises by the upward pressure of the gas, and acts as a vale for regulating the
passage of the same. Over the cap and nipple is screwed the top part of the
said burner, and the interior of that part of the same surrounding the said cap
is made conical, by which means in proportion as the cap is raised the annular
space round the same is deminished, and the emission of gas from the burner
is decreased. Above the-said conical part of the burner is placed a piece of

page_text: fine spiral wire, through which the gas passes on its way to the aperture of
the burner. Gas burners constructed as above described will regulate and
economize the consumption of gas, and effect its thorough combustion.
In order that my said Invention may be fully understood, I will now
proceed to describe the same in connection with the Sheet of Drawings
fine spiral wire, through which the gas passes on its way to the aperture of
the burner. Gas burners constructed as above described will regulate and
economize the consumption of gas, and effect its thorough combustion.
In order that my said Invention may be fully understood, I will now
proceed to describe the same in connection with the Sheet of Drawings
hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is an elevation of the several parts of the said self-regulating gas
burner; and Figure 2 is a vertical section through the same.
Letter (a) is the lower part of the burner; (b) is the nipple; and (c) the
cap or valve; (d) is the top part of the burner; (e) is the conical part of the
same; (f) is the piece of fine spiral wire; and (9) are grooves to allow the
passage of the gas when the valve is lifted to the highest. The gas passes up
through the nipple (6) into and under the cap or vale (c), into the conical
chamber (e), and thence through the spiral wire (f) out through the aperture
of the burner.
Having now fully described the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood, what I
consider to be novel and original, and therefor claim as the Invention secured
to me is, the construction of self-regulating gas burners, as herein-before
described.
Witness,
W. H. BATEMAN,
71, Fleet Street.
FRANCIS XAVIER KUKLA. (L.S.)