US359415A - Lamp or gas heating attachment - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

C. 13. WHITE.

I LAMP 0R GAS TIEATING ATTACHMENT.

No. 359,415. Patented'Mar. 15, 1887.

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CHARLES B. WHITE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

LAMP OR GAS HEATING ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,415, dated March 15, 1887.

Application filed October 11, 1886. Serial No. 215,938. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, CHARLES 13. WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State 01'' Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Lamp or Gas Heating Attachment, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in whichv Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved heating attachment applied to a gas-burner. Fig.2 is a perspective view of the same removed from the gas-burner.

My invention has for its object to provide a cheap, simple, and convenient device for supporting a vessel or other article over a gasburner in a position to be heated; and my invention consists in the combination, with a heating attachment composed of wire bent to form a flat top and depending spring-arms, of a detachable yoke adapted to receive and securely hold the lower ends of the spring-arms, and having suitable sockets or apertures to enable it to be fitted onto a gas-burner and thus support the heating attachment in a position directly over the gas-jet; and my invention also consists in certain details of construction, as hereinafter set forth and specifically claimed.

In the said drawings, A represents my improved heating attachment,which is composed of tempered wire bent and twisted to form a flat top, I), which serves as a rest or support for a vessel or other article to be heated. Each of the two wires, 0 d,'co'mposing the heating attachment is so disposed as to form a portion of the periphery of the top and two straight braces, 10, and is also bent and looped. beneath the top b to form one of the two depending spring-arms D D, which are arranged opposite to each other and are each provided with straight upper and lower portions, 12 15, and an intermediate curved portion, 16, the upper portions, 12, being furnished with shoulders f.

G is a detachable yoke, which is preferably composed of wire, but may be made of other suitable material, if desired. This yoke G consists of a frame the upper bar or portion,

t, of which is provided with two narrow slots or apertures, k, which form sockets for the reception of the lower straight portions, 15, of the spring-arms D of the heatingattachment, which are bifurcated, as seen at m, to enable them to fit over the bottom bar, q, of the yoke, whereby the arms are prevented from moving laterally, and are thus held securely in a vertical position, as desired. The upper bar, 6, is provided with a socket or circular loop, a", which fits over the tip of the gas-burner H, as seen in Fig. 1, while the lower bar, q, of the yoke is provided with a divided socket, s, the two bifurcated portions t t of which may be sprung or spread apart, by reason of the elasticity of the side bars of the yoke, to allow of its being placed around the burner below the chamber or enlargement a, as seen in Fig. 3, after which it will spring back and tightly embrace the burner, thus forming a spring-clamp.

' WVith an ordinary straight gas-burner having no chamber or enlargement below the tip, a yoke having two sockets like 1" could be employed; but as this could not be used for all gas-burners I prefer to construct the lower socket as described, thus adapting it for all ordinary gas-burners in common use. The heating attachment is thus supported in a position directly over the gas-jet, which enables a Vessel containing water or other liquid placed upon the top I) to be easily and rapidly heated, while the light from the burner is not in the least obstructedan advantage which will be readily appreciated when the heating attachment is used in the night-time.

It is obvious that the wire of which the heating attachment is composed may be bent or twisted in a variety of different ways to form a flat top, I), which may be circular, rectangular, or of other shape, as taste or fancy may dictate.

When wanted for use with a lamp-chimney, it is merely necessary to detach the yoke G, by drawing the arms D' out of the slots k,-when the heating attachment can be inserted within the top of a lamp-chimney to support a vessel thereover.

TVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a heating attachment composed of wire bent to form a flat top,

I), and depending spring-arms D, of a detachable yoke, G, provided with slots or apertures 7;, for the reception of the lower ends of the spring-arms D, and having sockets or loops adapted to fit over a gas-burner, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

2. In alainp and gas heating attachment, the combination, with the heater A, composed of wire bent to form a flat top, I), and depending spring-arms D, of the detachable yoke G, provided with slots or apertures k for the reception of the lower ends of the arms D, an upper socket or aperture, 1, and a lower divided spring socket or clamp, 8, adapted to spring over and encircle the gas-burner below its chamber or enlargement, substantially as described.

. CHARLES 13. WHITE.

in presence of P. E. TESOHEMACIIER, E. F. EDGETT.

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