Gas light control apparatus
AssigneeModern Home Products Corp.
InventorWalter Koziol
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Abstract
A dimmer device for a gas light which is solar activated and is composed of a minimum number of parts. A magnetically operated valve with a magnetically attractable ball is energized during daylight hours to close off one passageway yet allows gas to flow through a second passageway at a lower flow rate to provide a dimmer condition for the lamp. At night time, the magnetic valve is deactivated causing the magnetically attractable ball to open the otherwise closed passageway and thereby allow full gas flow to the lamp. The dimmer device is easily installed into the lamp housing rather than the post.
Claims20
A gas light control apparatus for effecting a dimming of the gas light under selected conditions comprising:
- a body member adapted to be connected to a gas intake conduit of a gas lamp;
- first and second passageways extending through said body member each having a gas input end and an output end;
- a magnetically attractable ball member operatively positioned to open and close said gas input end of one of said first and second passageways, said magnetically attractable ball member composed of a plastic material having magnetically attractable metal carried by said plastic material;
- magnetic means operatively associated with said ball member to magnetically attract said ball member to a position to close one of said first and second passageways;
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- a solar cell connected to said magnetic means, said ball member being magnetically attractable to said magnetic means by current supplied solely by said solar cell.
A gas light control apparatus for effecting a dimming of the gas light under selected conditions comprising:
- a body member having one end adapted to be connected to a gas intake conduit inside a gas lamp illuminating housing and the other end adapted to be connected to a gas lamp burner;
- first and second passageways extending through said body member each having a gas input end and an output end;
- a magnetically attractable ball member operatively positioned to open and close said gas input end of one of said first and second passageways, said magnetically attractable ball member composed of a plastic material having magnetically attractable metal carried by said plastic material;
- magnetic means operatively associated with said ball member to magnetically attract said ball member to a position to close one of said first and second passageways;
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- a solar cell connected to said magnetic means, said ball member being magnetically attractable to said magnetic means by current supplied solely by said solar cell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.