US416635A

US416635A - Gas lighting system

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Publication number: US416635A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-12-03
Anticipated expiration: 1906-12-03

Description

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A. LUNG'E'N.

GAS LIGHTING SYSTEM.

No. 416,635. Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADAM LUNeEN, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAS-LIGHTING SYSTEM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,635, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed February 12, 1889. Serial No. 299,595. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADAM LUNGEN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas- Lighting Systems, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a system for igniting gas at the burners by electricity.

The invention is designed to render it as nearly certain as possible that every burner in a system, no matter how extensive, will be ignited when the current is thrown onto the circuit.

To this end the invention consists in placing the burners in multiple are or multiple series, and locating a condenser in each cross branch or each branch of the circuit containing a burner or burners, in the manner hereinafter more particularly described, and pointed out in the claim.

Heretofore the ignition of gas by the electric spark leaping the break between the electrodes at a number of burners was only accomplished by thoroughly insulating each burner to prevent the current returning to the generator before passing over the series of breaks. The number of burners which could be so lighted was limited to the length of spark, which necessarily varied more or less at each burner and depended. somewhat on the perfection of the insulation.

In my system a great number of burners may be operated and the insulation at each burner may not. be so high as in the old systern.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 represents a diagrammatical view of the system; and Fig. 2, a similar view of the same general system, the condensers being of a different construction.

a represents the generator, and a a the trnnk-lines of the circuit.

The branches are indicated by b b b, and the gas-burners or other translating devices by c c c. 'In each branch containing atranslating device I locate a condenser 6. These condensers act in the usual manner-that is to say, the generator charges them, when they discharge a current of higher tension across the branch and insure a spark in the branch circuit. In this way I am not limited to a close adjustment of the electrodes at the burners, as the condensers of each branch will charge and discharge themselves over their respective branches without interference with the others.

It may be well to state that I prefer to use a Ruhmkorff coil to charge the circuit, as by this means the charging and discharging take place rapidly and successively.

In Fig. 2 one side of the circuit connects with one large sheet e of the condenser, while the other side of the condenser is made up of a number of small sheets 6 e 6 each connected with the opposite side of the circuit. This is a modified construction of condenser and manner of connecting to insure the simultaneous sparking at the burners.

Having described my invention, Iclaim- In a multiple-arc or multiple-series system of electrical distribution for igniting gas at the burners, the combination, with a burner or burners located in the cross-branches of the circuit, of a condenser located in each of said branches, for the purpose described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ADA-M LUNGEN.

lVitnesses: I

WM. A. ROSENBAUM, FRANK C. GEUEN.