A NEW INCANDESCENT GAS BURNER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 435, 12 September 1908, Page 3

A NEW INCANDESCENT GAS BURNER.

A long-felt want has been supplied by the Welsbach Light Company in the shape of a new gas burner fitted with an adjustable nipple and air regulator. With the varying gas pressure in New Zealand, the difficulty was to adjust the burner to its requirements so that a minimum quantity of gas produced a maximum quantity of light. Mary were the vexed attempts and wrathful words of the enraged householder as he burnt his fingers trying to stuff up the airholes of his burner with paper, but now all this has been done away with by a remarkably simple patent adopted by the Welsbach Company on their latest burners. An air shutter has been provided which covers the airholes as the pressure icquires, and an adjustable nipple which is easly turned with a knife biade or pin regulates the tlow of gas. This does away with the oldfashioned mode of pricking out with a pin the holes of the nipple in the burners. The Welsbach mantles which aie manufactured in their Wellington vvoiks are said to be the best obtainable in the whole world, while the company also cany the largest stocks of arc lamps, gas fittings, and plain and fancy glassware in the colony. Visitors from Foxton to Wellington are invited to call and pay a visit to their factory when the interesting process of mantle manufacture may be inspected.