The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-04-01
NEW MAYUFACTuRLyG ENTERPRISES

The Blake Lamp Company with capital stock
of forty thousand dollars, in shares of one hundred
dollars, has been incorporated by Andrew N Blake,
Ira NJ. Allen. Henry s. Beden John f Blake and
others.
The lamp Is called the Patent Safety Atmos-
pherlc Fountain Lamp Said patents were issued
February 2 1875, to Andrew NJ. Blake, covering
all kinds Of outdoor and indoor use They are all
made ofmetal Their street lighting business will
be considerable, as they have already secured con-
tracts to light Weston, Fairmount Phillippi and
Buckhannon, In West Virginia, and several small
towns in this state, They have also large num-
Der of stores to light in Washington City and Gin
| cinnat In place Of gas.
The nature of the invention consists in lamp
where the inlet for the oil is situated at the side of
the reservoir, and provided with one or more wick
chambers connected by tubes with the bottom Of
the reservoir. The oil being held in the reservoir
in suspension by atmospheric pressure the supply
to the burner never changes.
IL is automatic in Its acton, and burns just the
same when there is two tablespoonsful in the lamp
as when there is pint The oil is fed into the
wick chamber only as needed, and the reservoir
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pacity. The store lamps that fit on gas fxturcshold
weeks supply and combustion is so perfect that
the wick requires trimming but once week, and
will last six months The examiners and experts
in Washington say that the patents cover the most
valuable Improvements in light that have ever
been issued in the history of the government, and
a trial convinced all that 1t was absolutely Safe
The committee burned gasoline naptha and ben
zola, and made repeated efforts to explode one or
more ofthese dangerous compounds in said lamps
but could not oit.
They said the lamp should meet with large
sale on humanitarian grounds, The lamp can be
dropped or rolled over the floor without getting a
drop of oil on the carpet II can also be held at
an angle of Al degrees without any loss. An ex-
animation will show that it is so constructed that
it is impossible t. explode it, 1t uses any Kind of
burner, and any kind ofa chimney, and will
give better light with any kind of burner or
chimney than can can be given on any other lamp
in this country. You can have one, two or more
burners on the same lamp,
Mr. Blake also took out patent on an adjusta-
BILE wick chamber formed with three apertures.
These apertures are at different heights on the
chamber, and are to be used according to thegray-
ity of the oil used. The bottom aperture, H. is to
be screwed on the end of the pipe c, when the
lighter hydrocarbon oils are used, the middle ap-
erture II 2when the heavier hydrocarbon oils are
used and the top aperture, II 3, when animal oils
are burned. This latteri especially to be used on
steamboats,, steamships, railroads and similar pla-
ces where lard, whale and such heavy oils are
burned. These lamps with this wick chamber, will
give light equal to gas with lard oil
The company have already taken over 600 orders
in this county for their carbon oil lamps and the
business bids fair to become one ofthe most pros
perousn our midst Elsewhere there will be found
a notice of meeting of the directors ofsaid COM
pany.