US541302A

US541302A - John william wailes

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Publication number: US541302A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-06-18
Anticipated expiration: 1912-06-18

Description

(No Model.)

J. W. WAILES.

FIRE IGNITER.

No. 541,302. Patented June 18,1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W'ILLIAM WVAILES, OF PONTELAND, ENGLAND.

FIRE-IGNITER.

i5PEGIFIATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 541,302, dated June 18, 1895.

Application filed January 31. 1895. Serial No. 536,784. (No model.) Patented in England June 24, 1893, N0. 2Q,839.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN WILLIAM WAtLEs, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Ponteland, in the county of Northumberland, England, have invented a new and useful Fire-Igniter, (for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 20,839, hearing date June 2 1, 1893,) of which the following is a specification.

The object is to provide an igniter for effectually and rapidly lighting fires such iguiter being economical and cleanly in application, not liable to get out of order, readily used and freely movable from place to place.

Figure 1 is an elevation, and Fig. 2 is a plan of the igniter. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal horizontal section through the burner.

a, is a metal frame for carrying the various parts of the igniter; a, feet; a lifting handle; a guides.

12, is a foundation plate secured to the frame a. Above the foundation plate 17 is a wind chest formed with sides of leather or flexible air-tight material 0, and a pressure board 01 in the usual manner.

e is a spring re-acting against the frame a and pressure board 67, for closing the wind chest. A weight may be used instead of the spring.

f is a bellows board connected by sides of leather or flexible air tight material g, to the foundation plate I). The bellows board f and foundation plate I), are provided with the usual air admission valves opening upward.

h is an operating lever pivoted to the frame a at 1', and made with one end forked.

j are connecting rods pivoted to the bellows board f, at k, and to the forked end of the le- 'ver h, at Z.

m is a metal tube or blowpipe terminating at one end in a nozzle m, and coupled at theother end by means of a flexible india rubber or like tube 01. to the wind chest. The metal tube or blowpipe m is secured by means of a clamp 0 and thumb-screw p, at any desired height and vertical angle in the guides u so that the nozzle m may point directly at the fuel to be ignited. Any suitable clamp or universal joint may be used.

q is a sleeve with handle r, free to slide to and fro on the tube m. To the sleeve q is attaehed a burner consisting of a tube 3 perforated at s and surrounded by a tubular chamber 15 containing textile or like absorbent material. The chamber 25, may slide closely on the tube 8 or may be made to open with a hinge so as to be removable to allow of insertion of the absorbent material.

it is a funnel and pipe opening into the cham her If, through which'inflammable liquid such as petroleum spirit may be supplied to the absorbent material. v

The action is as follows: The lamp or burnerbeing in the position shown and adjusted to the required height the absorbent material is saturatedwith in flammable liquid. The bellows is then operated so as to cause a jet of air to issue from the nozzle m of the blow pipe m. The said air in its passage through the lamp takes up sufficient inflammable vapor by contact therewith through the perforations or apertures s to enable the mixture to be ignited. The inflammable mixture issues from the lamp in a jet which is ignited and the flames are directed against the fuel. When the inflammable liquid 'in the absorbent material is so far used as to cease to mix sufficiently with the air to produce an inflammable mixture, the lamp or burner is drawn back by means of the handle 1', and the nozzle m of the blowpipe m is allowed to project so that the air issuing therefrom urges the combustion of the now ignited fuel.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Afireignitercomprisingaframecontaining a bellows, a blow-pipe adjustably secured to the frame, and a flexible tube leading from the bellows to the blow-pipe, substantially as connecting the bellows and blow-pipe; substantially as described.

3. Afire-igniter comprisingabellows,atube leadingtherefrom, and a hollow perforated casing through which the air passes and adapted to contain an absorbent; substantially as described. 7

4. A fire-igniter comprising a bellows, a tube leading, therefrom, and a hollow sliding perforated casing through which the air passes to and adapted to contain an absorbent; substantially as described. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of January, 1895.

JOHN WILLIAM WAILES. Witnesses:

FREDERIO SMITH, THOMAS COLLINGS WINN.