US56203A - Improved illuminating apparatus - Google Patents

Description

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Illuminating Apparatus.

Patented July 10', 1866.

No. 56,203. i

N PETERS, Pholo-Lrlhonphor. Washinglon. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT @TFTcn.

CHARLES GEISSE, OF TAYGHEEDAIEI, WISCONSIN.

. lM PROVED lLL UMlNATl-NG APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56.203. dated July 10. 1866.

and Improved Illuminating Apparatus; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section of the apparatus when applied to illuminating a house. Fig. 2 is a view of the same from beneath the apparatus.

Like letters in all the figures indicate the same parts.

The nature of my invention mainly consists in combining and arranging a stationary reservoir for inflammable oil or 0th ercombustible fluid for illuminating purposes by means of pipes with one or more burners in all the places to be lighted substantially as follows:

I place a reservoir for containing the combustible fluid permanently in an elevated position in the building to be lighted, or in any convenient place outside of said building, if desired. It is above all the points of combustion, so that the fluid, by means of its specific gravity, may be conveyed thereto by means of pipes, and it is so far laterally distant from the burners as to prevent accident from the action of the same. To the said reservoir I connect, in any convenient manner, the upper end of the main pipe A. To the said pipe I connect the branch pipe B and other pipes for supplying, respectively, the different burners with the combustible material in all places to be lighted.

0 represents one of the burners. I would only use this form of burner Where a large amount of light is required; otherwise I would use an ordinary burner. The said burner O is supported by the branch pipe B, which supplies it with fluid that passes through the vertical end a, of the pipe, as seen in Fig. 2, and runs down the outer periphery of the same in sufficient quantity on the bottom plate of the burner O to be converted into gas, as hereinafter described, for the supply of the said burner.

The burner is provided with a central tube, D, which serves the double purpose of an airpassage through the central opening, d, and to form an annular space, 0, between its upper and conical-end, d, and the inner periphery of the bell-shaped cap 0 of the burner, the said space being enlarged or contracted, or entirely closed, by means of the screw f on the lower end of the tube, which fits in the i'emale screw 9 in the bottom h of the burner. Through the said annular space 0 the gas flows. as it is generated, as hereinafter described, the space being enlarged or contracted, as may be required, to modify the combustion by means of the conical end of the central tube, D, as the said tube is elevated or depressed by means of the screw f, as above described.

E is a branch pipe, which is connected with the main pipe A, or which may be affixed to any other branch pipe in connection therewith by means of the sliding socket i, there being one or more openings for the transmission of the fluid from the pipe A into the branch pipe or pipes in connection therewith. When the said openings are not covered by the sockets t" of the branch pipes, loose sockets j may be brought into requisition. The pipe E is provided with a burner, m. n is the wick, and n the flame issuing therefrom.

The oil or other fluid, as it supplies the different burners, percolates through cotton or other media, Z, placed in the main pipe A, as represented in Fig. 1, the cotton being sufficiently packed or in sufficient quantity to prevent a too rapid percolation of the fluid for the requisite supply to the burners. The said branch pipe E, when an ordinary light is wanted, is placed in connection with one of the more elevated openings in the main pipe A, as represented at the point 2 but when the burner O is to be used the combustion is started by means of the burner m on the said pipe, which is then in connection with the lowest opening at the point 1. The heat of the said burner, acting upon the bottom h of the burner O as the fluid gradually runs from the month end a of the branch pipe B on the inner face of said bottom plate, generates it into gas, which, being lighted at the annular opening or space 0, continues to burn for illuminating the room in which the burner is situated.

When the combustion is fairly started the body of the burner 0 becomes sufliciently heated to generate a snfiicient amount of gas to supply the combustion, and then the use of the burner m on the branch pipe E is dispensed with. The globular radiator F, attached to the upper end of the.rod k, which is connected at its lower end to the central tube, D, assists in the generation of the gas, the heat from the radiator being thrown upon the cap-piece 0 of the burner. The combustion of the gas in the burner assists the percolation of the fluid through the media in. the pipe A by creating a partial vacuum in the burner.

Other like branch pipes, similarly arranged as the pipe E, may be simultaneously used at.

variable altitudes and positions. The sockets i j may be provided with india-rubber or other packing when required.

G is a portion of a pipe for conveying vapor or gas from the interior of the burner O to another burner in another room in the building or to anotherpart of the same room. There may be supplementary branch pipes arranged on the lateral branch pipes above described, which may also be provided with sliding sockets i, and in connection with the said pipes there should be loose sliding sockets j, the arran gement of the said pipes and sockets being similar to that of the branch pipes and sockets on the main pipe A, as above described.

H is a stop-cock on the main pipe A. The said cock is used to graduate the amount of oil to be transmitted from the reservoir to one or more burners in connection with said pipe,

or to entirely close the communication with the reservoir when the burners are not in use. The said cock is situated above all the openings in the main pipe A which communicate with the branch pipes.

Having thus fully described my illuminating apparatus, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination and arrangement of the central tube, D, with the burner O, substantially in the manner described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. Combining and arranging the movable branch pipe E with the burner O, for starting the generation of gas in the latter, substantially as described. 7 I

3. Thesliding sockets tj, arranged and operating substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. The combination and arrangement of the globular radiator F with the central tube, D, substantially in the manner described, and for the purpose set forth.

5. The combination of the pipe G with the burner G, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that the above is my invention I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 1st day of July, 1865.

CHARLES GEISSE. IL. s.]

Witnesses:

STEPHEN Us'rIcK, JOHN WHITE.

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