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No. 756,155. Patented March '29, 1904.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
HENRY BRYANT, OF ARANSAS PASS, TEXAS.
GAS-BURNER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,155, dated March 29, 1904.
Application filed December 18, 1896. Renewed August 11,1903. Serial No. 169,080+. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, HENRY BRYANT, a citi-
zen of the United States, and a resident of
Aransas Pass, inthe State of Texas, have in-
5 vented a new and useful Improvement in Gas-
Burners, which is made and used substantially.
as set forth hereinafter and as shown in the
accompanying drawings, in which-
Figure 1-is an elevation of the burner as in
10. use. Fig. 2 is the same in section.
The object of this invention is to produce a
burner suited to produce an illuminating-flame
of acetylene gas and to use the same for such
purpose; and the- invention consists in form-
15 ing a burner with two jet branches with out-
lets at a suitable distance apart and projecting
from them for burning, so that jets of gas will
issue and gather about them an envelop of air
carried .along and strike together at an angle
20 of nearly ninety degrees and spread into a
beautiful flame in burning, and in various de-
tails to facilitate the manufacture and use of
same.
Fig. 1 shows an external view, and Fig. 2 a
25 -sectional view, of a burner made with-these
improvements -in one form. The base B is
made to attach to a branch of a service-pipe A
and has within it a chamber or space for a
body of loose cotton C or other suitable ma-
30 terial for checking the flow of gas and reduc-
ing its pulsations to a uniform motion. From
this chamber spread two arms D at an angle
of about eighty degrees or thereabout. These
arms D are arranged so that they can be bored
35 out with small drills, which will go inside of-
the lower edge of the base B, as illustrated in
dotted lines in Fig. 2. At suitable distances
the arms D bear cross-tubes E at such angles
that their upper ends will approach each other
40 at an angle of about ninety degrees. The
cross-tubes E are arranged to be bored out
with small drills from the outer ends, using
very fine calibers for the jet-outlets at the up-
per ends and larger for the outer portions,
45 into which are set-screws H to close the tubes.
The tubes E are arranged at suitable distances
apart, so as to gather about the jets of gas en-
velops of air carried with the gas smoothly
and so that when they reach a proper point
5 they will strike together fairly and spread intoa beautiful flame F from the gas and air car-
ried with it in- burning. The -ends of the
burner-arms E E are made conical at their
ends and have round outlet-holes for the gas-
jets, arranged to carry air by frictional con- 55
tact as a moving envelop, so as to cause mix-
ture for thorough combustion by the two jets
and their envelops striking and mingling to-
gether at a distance from the burner-points,
so as to prevent deposit of carbon on the 6o
points and so the air- will - sweep away any
chance deposit. The - extreme- sharp ends- of
the cones around the outlet-holes are cut-off, so
the air passing along them to envelop the -gas
will come in contact just beyond the end to 65
avoid inducing a; carbon deposit thereon. The
gas is thus emitted from the two burner-tips
having circular tapering orifices, so as to form
fine jets of gas tending to form inverted cones
directed obliquely upward toward each other 70
so as to impinge on each other at a consider-
able distance above the tips to form a flame
out of contact with the substance of the tips,
so as to form a clearance-space - between the
orifices and extending a distance below them, 75
and so that a current of air will be drawn by
suction along each of the tips, so as to sweep
the conical point of the tip from any chance
deposit thereon.
Various modifications may be made in this. 8o
Fig. 3 shows one such, in which the arms D'
bear elbow-joints D2, and these bear burner-
tips E',.with holes in their ends arranged to
throw gas-jets to meet at the proper distances
and angles to form the flame. 85
I claim-
1. In an acetylene-gas burner having a body
B with arms D bearing tubes with small ex-
ternally-truncated conical tips with round out-
lets in their ends at a distance apart, formed 90
so as to leave a surface at the extreme end of
the tip between the orifice and the outer ta-
pering walls, arranged to deliver jets of gas
which will gather envelops of air about them
and strike together at an angle of near ninety 95
degrees for burning.
2. A burner for acetylene gas, having two
branches set at an angle to each other with ex-
ternally-truncated conical points, formed so
as to leave a surface at the extreme point be- 100
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Bryant, Henry. Gas Burner, patent, March 29, 1904; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513325/m1/2/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.