Improvements in and connected with Lamps or Lanterns for Lighting Streets, Vessels, Lighthouses, Railways, Mines, or Vehicles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 13th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Lamps or Lanterns for
Lighting Streets, Vessels, Lighthouses, Railways, Mines, or
Vehicles.
GOODMAN BROWNE 10 Mildmay Road London, N. Engineer do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A lantern or lamp with central lights as shewn on drawing and marked 1. 2. 3.
to burn or use any illuminative power, which shines through conical bulls eyes
made of glass and reflected by nickled or enamelled or other suitable reflectors,
which consumes its own smoke as shewn by the arrows in the accompanying
drawings thus keeping the reflectors and glasses clean and free from vapour.
The glasses can be of any colour and throw the reflection from different angles.
The instrument shews a brilliant light through the densest fog. The lamp or
lantern can be made of any shape, circular, oval, square, hexagon, or any
combination of angles, and of any metal, and can be made to be carried by hand
or to stand for street lighting or hung up in any position. The ventilation is
shewn in drawing by the perforation through the double plates in the top
cylinder which is moveable.
Fig. 1. shews a street or standing lamp in section. "A" is a supporting column
to carry the lamp, "B" "B" is an outside reflector receiving its light from "C."
The bulls-eye figured centre glass reflects this light. There are also on the top
and bottom of the said centre glass two reflectors marked "B" "B," and
"D" is a perforated cylinder inside the lamp which consumes the smoke passing
through the lamp. E is a vent for the hot air. F is perforated inside the lamp to
regulate the current of air so that the supply and demand may be equal. and
constant.
Fig. 2 shews a hand lamp.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Lamps or Lanterns for
Lighting Streets, Vessels, Lighthouses, Railways, Mines, or
Vehicles.
1 GOODMAN BROWNE of 10 Mildmay Road N., Engineer do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
A lantern or lamp with central lights as shewn on the drawing filed with the
Provisional Specification and marked 1. 2. 3 to burn or use any illuminative power
which shines through conical bulls eyes made of glass and reflected by nickled or
enamelled or other suitable reflectors which consumes its own smoke as shewn by
the arrows on the accompanying drawings thus keeping the reflectors and glasses clean
and free from vapour.
The glasses can be of any colour and throw the reflection from
different angles. The instrument shews a brilliant light through the densest fog.
The lamp or lantern can be made of any shape circular oval square hexagon or any
combination of angles and of any metal and can be made to be carried by hand or
to stand for street lighting hung up in any position. The ventilation is shewn in
drawing by the perforation through the double plates in the top cylinder which is
moveable.
Fig. 1 shews a street or standing lamp in section with "A" as a supporting
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page_text: column to carry the lamp. " and "Bare outside reflectors rece ing the light
from "C." The bulls eye figured centre glass reflects this light from burners
centrally arranged.
"D" is a perforated cylinder inside the lamp which consumes the smoke passing
through the lamp "E" is a vent for the hot air "F" is perforated inside the
lamp to admit the current of air so that the supply and demand may be equal and
constant.
Fig. 2 shews a hand lamp.
Fig. 3 shews a hanging lamp.
In all cases the source of light is placed in the focus of the lens.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that
what I claim is
All central lights as shewn on the drawings marked 1. 2. 3 which can be used
either by gas, oil or candles, and it is a light which pierces through the thickest
fog, it has been tested.
GOODMAN BROWNE.