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er. It is also used in the fitting up of water and paraffin baths, and for many other purposes. [Illustration: FIG. 115.--Reichert's thermo-regulator.] Of the many forms and varieties of thermo-regulator (other than electrical), two only are of sufficiently general use to need mention. In one of these the flow of gas to the gas-jet is controlled by the expansion or contraction of mercury within a glass bulb; in the other, by alterations in the position of the walls of a metallic capsule containing a fluid, the boiling-point of which corresponds to the temperature at which the incubator is intended to act. They are: (a) _Reichert's_ (Fig. 115), consists of a bulb containing mercury which is to be suspended in the medium, whether air or water, the temperature of which it is desired to regulate. Gas enters at A, and passes out to the jet by B. As the temperature rises the mercury expands and cuts off the main gas supply. As the temperature falls the mercury contracts and reopens the narrow tube C. By means of a thumbscrew D (which mechanically raises or lowers the column of mercury irrespective of the temperature) and the aid of a thermometer the apparatus can be set to keep the incubator at any desired temperature. With this form a special gas burner is required, with separate supply of gas to a pilot jet at the side. (b) _Hearson's capsule regulator_ consists of a metal capsule hermetically sealed and filled with a liquid which boils at the required temperature, this is adjusted in the interior of the incubator. Soldered to the upper side of the capsule is a thick piece of metal having a central cup to receive the lower end of a rigid rod, through which the movements of the walls of the capsule are transmitted to the gas valve fixed outside the incubator. The gas valve or governor is shown in figure 116. A is the inlet for gas, C the outlet to burner heating the water jacket, B D a lever pivoted to standards at G, and acted upon by the capsule, through the rigid rod which enters the socket below the screw P. [Illustration: FIG. 116.--Capsule thermo-regulator.] The construction of the valve is such that, whenever the short arm of the lever B D presses on the disc below the end B, the main supply of gas is entirely cut off. At such times, however, a very small portion of gas passes from A to C, through an aperture inside the valve, the size of which aperture can be adjusted by the screw needle S, hence the ga
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