IMPROVEMENTS ON LAMPS
Year: 1837

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEREMIAH
BYNNER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Lamp Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Ninth day of December, in the first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Jeremiah Bynner, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Jeremiah Bynner, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Jeremiah Bynner, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS ON LAMPS;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Jeremiah Bynner,
shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference bring thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Jeremiah Bynner, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
My Invention relates to a mode of supplying air to the flames of lamps
(whereby I am enabled to obtain greater length and steadiness of flame, and
brilliancy of light from such flames), and consists in the application of certain
deflecting surfaces in combination with peculiarly constructed chimneys,
whereby currents of air are caused to act on the flames at a position above
the point of ignition; and such currents of air are so deflected as to have
a tendency to impinge on the flames, and would, if only applied to one side
of the flames, cause them to be blown down towards a horizontal position;
but currents of air being deflected on to the flames of lamps according to
the Invention, all round or on all sides, a steadiness of flame and brilliancy of
light is produced, not attainable by other modes of applying the air thereto;
and it is important to call particular attention to the circumstance of the
currents of air (so deflected, and having a tendency to cross the flame at
all points, being deflected or striking above the point of ignition, because
it is important that the flame should be formed below the point at which the

page_text: Figure 2 represents part of the section of a lamp having a flat wick burner;
Figure 3 is a section of part of a lamp having an argand burner; Figure 4 is
an argand burner for burning gas; and Figure 5 is a gas burner having a jet
flame. In each of these Figures the same letters indicate similar parts, and
respectively show my Invention as applied to those classes of burners for
lamps.
Figure 6 shows a glass chimney with a metal top in order to produce a
central current above the flame in place of having the chimney wholly of glass,
and it will be seen that there are no openings to admit air to the chimney,
excepting that which comes through the deflector at e, e; and I would remark
that although the deflectors may be employed in combination with ordinary
chimnies of glass, I prefer the using of chimnies as shown and described.
I would remark, that I do not make any claim to the various parts of lamps
shown, nor do I confine myself to the precise figures or shapes thereof, as the
same may be varied according to taste. And I would have it understood that
I am aware that various modes of supplying and regulating air to the burners
of lamps have been before resorted to; I do not therefore claim any mode for
accomplishing that object, other than were the currents of air are obtained at
a point below the point of ignition, as at c, c, and conducted up and deflected
off in a direction to cross the flame on all sides and all around, at a point
above the point of ignition, as above described.
And I also claim the combining deflectors, as above explained, with chimnies
of the construction shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jeremiah Bynner, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
JEREMIAH (Ls.) BYNNER.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of Febru-
ary, in the year of our Lord 1888, the aforesaid Jeremiah Bynner came before
our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica-
tion aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand.
night hundred and thirty-eight

page_text: Til the statter of Letters Patent granted the Ninth day of December,
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, to JEREMIAHI BYNNER,
for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON LAMPS,"
DISCLAIMER entered pursuant to an Act passed in the fifth and sixth
years of King William the Fourth, entitled "An Act to amend the
Law touching Letters Patent for Inventions."
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEREMIAH
BYNNER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the
Ninth day of December, in the first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her
heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, my exors, adñiors, and assigns,
Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Jeremiah Bynner, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, and such others ns I, the
said Jeremiah Bynner, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON LAMPS :" And whereas I, the said Jeremiah
Bynner, in pursuance of a proviso in the said in part recited Letters Patent
contained, did particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be enrolled in
Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery, on the Nineteenth day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight: And
whereas I have been advised that the said instrument in writing has been
understood to claim as part of the Invention therein described, the discovery
of a principle in the construction of lamps, and that I have been understood
as claiming therein to be the discoverer of the principle of applying air by
deflectors to the flames of lamps: And whereas I never intended to make

page_text: such claim, and am desirous of entering a Disclaimer of, the discovery of such
principle being part of the Invention secured or intended to be secured to me
by the said Letters Patent: And whereas I have obtained leave of Sir Fre-
derick Thesiger, Knight, Her Majesty's Solicitor-General, certified by his fiat
and signature, to enter such Disclaimer with the Clerk of the Patents of
England, pursuant to the Statute in that behalf provided.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jeremiah Bynner, do hereby disclaim as
of my Invention or discovery the principle of applying air to the flames of
lamps by means of deflectors; and I hereby declare my claim in respect of the
application of air in the said instrument in writing mentioned to have been
intended to have reference only to the particular mode of applying air to the
flame of a lamp, by the means mentioned and described in the Specification
and Drawing. And I hereby disclaim as of my Invention the application of
air to the flames of lamps by any other means than those particularly therein
mentioned.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jeremiah Bynner, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this First day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
JEREMIAH BYNNER. (L.B.)
Signed and sealed by the within-named
Jeremiah Bynner, in the presence of
WM. RENNOLLS,
Clerk to Messrs. Gem Pooley & Beisly, Sol",
1, Lin. Inn Fields.
This is to certify, that the within-named Jeremiah Bynner has applied to
me for leave to enter the within-written Disclaimer of part of the Specifi-
cation of a certain Invention, for which Letters Patent were granted to him
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, dated at Westminster, the Ninth day of
December, in the first year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; and
having considered of the said application, and having heard objections to the
same, I have thought fit to grant leave to the aforesaid Jeremiah Bynner to
file his said Disclaimer, pursuant to the Statute passed in the fifth and sixth
years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled
An Act to amend the Law touching Letters Patent for Inventions.
FRED. THESIGER.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of March, in the year
of our Lord 1845, the aforesaid Jeremiah Bynner came before our said Lady
the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Disclaimer aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And
also the Disclaimer aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
made for that purpose.
Enrolled the First day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-five.