USRE6453E - Improvement in argano gas-burners - Google Patents

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UNITED S'I'A'rns PATEN'I' OFFICE.

EDWIN R. VVALKER, OF NEVV YORK, N. Y ASSIG'NOR TO ELLIOTT P. GLEASON, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN ARGAND GAS'BURNERS.

specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 72,244, dated December 17, 1867 reissue No. 6,453, date-d May 25, 1875; application filed April 2, 1873.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that EDWIN R. TALKEI of the city, county, and State of New York, heretofore invented, made, and applied to use certain new and useful Improvements in Arga-nd Gas-Burners, of which the following is a specification, referring to the accompanying drawing, making part of the same, in which- Figure 1 is a view of the improved argandburner. Fig. 2 is a Vertical section of the same. Fig.3is an elevation, and Fig. 4is a Vertical section, ofa modification of the said improvemen t. Fig. 5 is a top view of the lower section A of the argand-burner shown in Figs. 1 and 2, withA plate in place. Fig. 6 is a like view of the same with the plate a: removed. Fig. 7 is the plate w, shown edgewise and flat. Fig. 8

is a Vertical section of the lower section A of the argand-burner, on the line G G of Figs. 5 and 6. i

Similar letters mark like parts in all the said figures.

The first part of said inventiou relates to certain means for stopping t-he noise'of an argandburner, which proceeds from the direct passage of the gas through the same; and consists in arranging a defiecting-plate with the gas-inlet, so that the gas, as .it enters by the inlet, will strike against, and be defiected by, the plate, and, in consequence, be distributed with the effect to break the current and render its pass-age noiseless.

The second part of said invention relates to the means employed to control the gas-supply at the burner after the full head is turned on in the usual way and this consists in arrangin g, with the gas-inlet and defiectin g-plate, serving as a valve to the inlet, a screw or other mechanical device, in such a manner that the plate or valve may be raised or depressed, with reference to the inlet, at will from outside the burner, and the gas-supply, by that means, increased or diminished to the extent desired.

In the drawing, A is the lower or bottom section of the burner, and B the upper or top section of the same. The lower portion or section of the burner is provided with an inlet, for introducing the gas, and has cast in its interior, a slight distance above the inlet, a series of ribs or projections, n, to receive the disk or plate of metal x. The upper part B of theburner is connected with the arms b and collar c, the lattcr being hollow, and forming` a chamber,D, communicatin g with the passages through the arms b. The collar screws upon a neck of the lower part A of the burner, and by that means the two parts are united. A regulating-screw, m, is inserted through the lower part of the burner, so that its point may be brought to bear against the under side of the plate w, and it has a thumb-piece or handle, y, by which it is easily turned. By turning up the screw 'm the plate x is raised from its seat on the ribs a, and from theinlet and an increased supply of gas is admitted to the burner; and by turnin g down the screw m, the plate is lowered or depressed onto its seat a, and to the inlet and the supply of gas is diminished and turned ofi'.

The gas-supply enters the chamber d at the union of the two parts, through the inlet As it passes through the inlet it strikes against the under side of the metallic plate x, which deflects and distributes it at right an gles, and, by so doing, breaks the current and destroys the hissing or singing noise that usually attends the passage of an unbroken current through the argand-burner. The gas thus distributed by the defiecting-plate a; passes from the chamber d, through the arms b, into the burner B, and is inflamed in the usual way. The supply of gas is controlled by turning the regulating-screw m, as above described.

The defiectin g-plate w is elevated a slight distance above the inlet z' on the ribs or seat a; and there is an open space around the plate x, between the ribs qz in the chamber d, as shown in Figs. 2, 5, and 8, by means of which, when the plate is depressed to its lowest point, and the gas-supply is, in consequence, diminished to the same extent, a minute supply will continue to fiow from the inlet, (between it and the plate, and through the open space around the plate,) as shown by the arrows, and thence through the burner to the tip D. This minute supply is sufficient only to maintain combustion at the tip without aft'ording light, but serves to produce light instantaneously by simply turning on the supply of gas by means of the regulating-screw m.

In Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawing the deflecting plate or valve w is attached to a spindle, 8, having a sereW-thread, m, out upon it, and inserted in the center of the collar c, so that the plate or Valve shall be directly over the inlet in the lower part of the bnrner. To this spindle is attaehed a lever, y, by means of which the disk or Valve x, connected, as shown, with the spindle s, may he elevated or depressed at Will from outside the burner.

When the lever y is swung in one direction the valve is elevated and the gas-supply inereased; and when the lever is swung in the opposite direction the valve is depressed With reference to the inlet, and the gas-supply is diminished.

Having described the invention of the said EDWIN R. WALKER, I do not claim as such the regulating-sorew separately nor in combination, except as hereinaftar speeified.

I claiin as the invention of the said VVALKER- 1. In an argand gas-burner, the combination of the plate or valve and the inlet, as and for the purpose deseribed.

2. In an argand gas-bnrner, the combination of the screw, the plate, and the inlet, as*

E. P. GLEASON,

Assignce.

Witnesses:

J. O. WAUGER, IsAAe A. BRoWNELL.

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