US837838A - Automatic igniting and extinguishing appliance for gas-burners. - Google Patents

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PATENTED DEC. 4:, 1906. J. HOROWITZB AUTOMATIC IGNITING AND EXTINGUISHING APPLIANCE FOR GAS BURNERS.

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AUTOMATIC IGNITING AND EXTINGUISHING APPLIANCE FOR GAS BURNBRS. APPLICATION FILED JULY 20, 1904.

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No. 837,838. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 4, 1906. Application filed m 20, 1904.. Serial NO- 217.334.

To all whom zit may concern.-

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of the side walls of which is provided with orifices 6 and 6. This box is mechanical engineer, residmg at Rue Serdivided by a central transverse partition 13 van, in the city of Paris, Republic of France 1 into two compartments 13 and 13, with ave invented Improvements Relatmg to j which the passages 5 and 5, respectively, utomatic I niting and Extmguishm Apcommunicate. Against this wall is adapted pliances for GasBurners, of which the followto move a slide or valve 14, turning freely ing is afull, clear, and exact description. upon the spring-shaft 15, and the displace- 1s inventlon has for its object an appament of which serves to alternately open or 6 ratus constructed m such a manner as to conclose the orifices 6 6. tro alternately and automatically from a he controlling device serves to produce point situated atagreater or less distance the t e displacement of the slide 14 in such a ignition and substantial extinction of any demanner as to establish communication of the slred number of gas-burners, illuminatinggas-generator alternately with the pipe for signs, advertisements, transparencies, and, supplying the gas and with the service-pi e generally speaking, signs of all kinds serving to the burners. This device consists of a either for advertising purposes or as lumicounterweighted beam 11 provided with nous signals. The apparatus comprises for projections acting alternately upon one or this purpose a bell which can be lifted by the other 0 the extremities of the slide 14. 7 5 gas under pressure and lowered when the gas- At t e oWer part of the gasholder is pressure decreases. The movement of the formed a passage 16, adapted to be regulated bell controls the flow of gas to the bell and by a pin-valve or cook 17 and connecting the from the bell to the burners. It will be unpassages 5 and 5 for the admission and disderstood that this method is applicable not 0 ar e of t e gas for supplying the pilot- 8c only to public lighting, but also in railwaylights in such a manner that they always restations, theaters, cafes, and, generally I mam in action during the operation of the speaking, for all establishments where it is ignition-extinction device. desired to attract the attention of the public E In order to start the apparatus, it is only and produce luminous signs or advertisenecessary to open the cock 4 and to kindle ments economically. the group of burners 1 of the sign. The gas he invention is hereinafter described with entering the gas-holder-through the passa e reference to the accompanying drawings, 5 and orifice 6 lifts the bell 7 which with its which are given by way of example, and in rod 8 and the stop 10 acts upon the beam 11 whicht e counterweight of w '0 causes it to 9c Figure 1 is a vertical section of an apparacomplete its rocking movement from right to tus embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a left. In its rotation the beam 11 encounters partial horizontal section of the same. Fig. one of the extremities of the slide, which then 3 is a vertical section through the apparatus rotates rapidly upon its axis, the orifice 6 of As clearly shown in the drawings, upon the the face of the receivei opens and the other, 5 sign represented in Fig 1 is arranged a group 6, closes. The group of burners being then 0 urners, the pipe 1 of which is connected kindled will consume the volume of gas cony a pipe 2 to the distributing apparatus and tained in the bell. This latter descends in by the service-pipe 3 with the source of supproportion to the consumption until it ply of gas. The apparatus is placed in com- 1 reaches with its rod 8 and stop 9 the beam 11. munication with the service-pipe by the in- ;i This beam then rocks again in the opposite termediary of a cock 4, and the gas enters it direction to that of its first movement, and in passing through the passage 5 and the oriacted upon by the counterweight causes b ce 6, passing into a receiver or box 13. It means of its other extremity the rocking of t en escapes into the bell 7, which dips in a the slide 14, closing the discharge-orifice 6 vessel containingacertain quantity of liquid and again opening the admission-orifice 6, The bell 7 rises under the influence of the gaspermitting, owing to the fresh admission of pressure, carrying wlth it the rod 8 fixed I gas beneath the bell, of anew displacement of upon the upper part of the bell and provided the slide, and so on in succession. The burnwith two stops or tappets 9 and 10, acting in ers having been lighted once for all will con- 1 10 turn upon the extremity of a beam 11, freely I articulated upon the spindle 12 laterally of l pilot-lights In cases in which mulitcolored luminous signs it is only necesth sary to surround proximity to I claim In apparatus of the class described, in a vessel adapted to contain a liquid, a bell mounted in said vessel and adapted to dip in said liquid, aboX presenting combination,

a Wall With openings cating means for pressing -face, said slide being adapted to close one of the signs with transparent glasses of the desired colors.

with the interior of said pivotally attached upon one position and the other of said openings in another position, a counter- Weighted beam mounted adjacent to said slide adapted to engage opposite ends thereof alternately, means for actuating said beam with said bell, a gas-burner, ing from one of said openings to said burner, and a second passage leading to the other of said openings from a source of gas-supply.

The foregoing specification of my improvements relating to automatic igniting and exsaid openings in it is desired to produce e burners arranged in tinguishing appliances for gas-burners signed therethrough commun1- by me this 2d day of July, 1904.

bell, a slide JOSEPH HOROWITZ. the face of said Wall, Witnesses: said slide against said HANSON C. COKE,

RENE CHIRIOT.

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