US1099447A

US1099447A - Pyrophorous gas-lighter.

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Publication number: US1099447A
Application number: US79777113A
Authority: US
Inventors: Jacques Kellerman
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1913-10-28
Filing date: 1913-10-28
Publication date: 1914-06-09
Anticipated expiration: 1931-06-09

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J. KELLERMANN. PYROPHOROUS GAS LIGHTER. APPLICATION FILED 001228, 1913.

1,099,447. Patented June 9,1914.

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JACQUES KELLERMANN, 0F BERLIN, GERMANY.

PYROPHOROUS GAS-LIGHTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedJune 9.19114.

App1ication filed 0ctober28; 1913. SerialNo. 797,771.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JACQUES KELLERMANN, a subject of the German Emperor, and residing at 114 Kopenickerstrasse, Berlin, S. O. 16, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pyrophorous Gas- Lighters, of which the following is a specification.

The presentinvention consists of a :pyrophorous gas-lighter with means for fixing it, which are so constructed, that the gas lighter may be fitted by any one to gas lamps, without the need of any special tools or other contrivances.

The gas-lighter further comprises a wall covering the sparks produced by the pyrophorous material, which wall will conduct the sparks over the upper edge of the gas lamp to be lighted, so that the said sparks will positively meet the gas rising from the lamp, and ignite it.

The gas lighter is operated by means of a rocking lever under action of a spring, by the rocking of which the frictional member is operated, whereby the spark is produced.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a gas lamp which is fitted with the pyrophorous gas-lighter. Figs. 2 and 3 are broken side views of the gas-lighter in two different positions and Fig. 14 is a cross sec tion on the line IV-IV of Fig. 2. Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate a modification of the arrangement shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

The gas lighter consists of a casing 1, which has at its upper edge a hook-shaped nose 2. Another hook 4 is attached to a spring 3 secured at one end to the said casing 1, and by means of these two hooks the casing can be attached to the gas lamp. In the embodiment shown in the accompanying drawing the gas-lighter is shown fitted to aninverted gas lamp, the hook 2engaging over the top rim 5 of the burner casing, while the hook4 at the free end of the spring en-1 gages over the lower rim or in one of the perforations which are generally found in such burners. By means of the tension of the spring 3 between the said two hooks the gas-lighter can readily and without any further instruments be attached to any such gas lamp. The casing 1 is further preferably provided below with an extension 6, which serves as akind of support, bearing against the body of the lamp. On the top ver into its upper position, when it hasbeen moved downward in the direction of the arrow I .(Fig. 1). A nose 14 of the lever 12 engages behind a pawl 15 on the file 10. When, therefore, the lever 12 is rocked the file will be moved by means of the nose 14- and thepawl 15, as shown in Fig. 3, until the nose 14 is disengaged from the pawl 15, and the latter is released whereupon the file 10 can swing back in the direction of arrow II, Fig. 3. When the lever 12 is again released its nose 14 will strike against the pawl 15, which is under action of a spring. and is thereby swung back, so that the nose 14 can pass whereupon it reengages behind the returning pawl 15 as shown in Fig. 2.

In order to positively conduct the sparks into the path of the ignitible gas current rising fromthe lamp, a wall 16 is provided above the hook 2, by which wall the sparks produced by the file are made to pass over the upper edge 5 of the gas lamp. At the.

same time this wall 16 will catch a part of the rising gas and conduct it toward the sparks. The wall 16 thus together withthe guide 9 and the file 10 forms a guide passage for the sparks.

In Figs. 5 and 6 the pawl 15 in Figs. 2 and 3 has been replaced by :1 lug 18 eccentrically bored and pivoted at 17. This lug 18 has such a shape, that it, and with it the file 10, is dogged by lever 12, and after clearing the lever 12 it returns and allows the arm 14 to pass, thereupon returning by its own weight into its position of rest. By this arrangement the auxiliary spring of pawl 15 in Figs. 2 and 3 is dispensed with and a re liable operation of the device is insured.

I claim:

1. In a pyrophorous gas lighter means for readily attaching it to a lamp and detaching it therefrom, said means consisting of a hook fitted to the body of the lighter and adapted to engage over the top rim of the lamp, a second hook adapted to engage below with the lamp, and an elastic ,m mber between said hooks;

2. In a pyrophorous gas lighter means for readily attaching it to a lamp and detaching it therefrom, said means consisting of a hook fitted to the body of the lighter and adapted to engage over the top rim of the lamp, a second hook adapted to engage below with the lamp, and an elastic member between said hooks, on said body of the lighter and at its lower end a bracket adapted to bear against the body of the lamp and act asa support for the lighter.

3. In a pyrophorous gas lighter'means for readily attaching it to a lamp and detaching it therefrom, said means consisting of a hook fitted to the body of the lighter and adapted to engage over the toprim of the lamp, a second hook adapted to engage below'with the lamp and an elastic member between said hooks, over the saidupper hook a wall projecting beyond it and adapted to act as a baffle for the sparks and conduct them into the current of gas rising and also 1 Copies of this patent maybe obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

to baffle the said rising current of gas to= ward the sparks.

4:. In a pyrophorous gas lighter means for readily attaching it to the lamp and detaching it therefrom, said means consisting of a hook fitted to the body of the lighter and adapted to engage over the top'rim ofthe lamp, over the said upper hook a wall pro ject-ingbeyond it and adapted to act as a baflie for the sparks and conduct them into the current of gas rising and also'to baffle the said rising current-of gas, a friction member moving in aguide arranged beneath and in the direction of the said baffling wall and forming with said walla guide channel for the sparks.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

v JACQUES KELLERMANN. \Vitnesses: HENRY HAsrnn, W OLDEMAR HAUPT.

Washington, D. 0'.