IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO ALL KINDS OF OILS USED FOR ILLUMINATING PURPOSES WHEREBY COMBUSTION THEREOF IS RENDERED MORE PERFECT, SMOKE PREVENTED, AND THE PURITY OF THE LIGHT INCREASED
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Rudolph Schomburg, of Onslow Terrace, Lorrimore
Road, and Adolph Baldamus, of Surrey Terrace, Lorrimore Road,
both in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
APPLICABLE TO ALL KINDS OF OILS USED FOR ILLUMINATING PURPOSES
WHEREBY COMBUSTION THEREOF IS RENDERED MORE PERFECT, SMOKE PREVENTED,
AND THE PURITY OF THE LIGHT INCREASED."
Sealed the 12th June 1863, and dated the 16th December 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Rudolph Schomburg
and Adolph Baldamus at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 16th December 1862.
We, RUDOLPH SCHOMBURG, of Onslow Terrace, Lorrimore Road, and
ADOLPH BALDAMUS, of Surrey Terrace, Lorrimore Road, both in the
County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO ALL KINDS OF OILS USED FOR ILLUMINATING
PURPOSES WHEREBY COMBUSTION THEREOF IS RENDERED MORE PERFECT, SMOKE
PREVENTED, AND THE PURITY OF THE LIGHT INCREASED," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in leading steam from water into the flame of lamps
burning either vegetable, mineral, or other oils during the combustion thereof,
for the purpose of decomposing.the water from the steam by the heated carbon,
thus forming a gaseous compound of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon. The steam
may
either be generated by the flame of the lamp or be conveyed to the lamp
from any other source.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Rudolph Schomburg and Adolph Baldamus in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 16th June 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, RUDOLPH
SCHOMBURG, of Onslow Terrace, Lorrimore Road, and ADOLPH BALDAMUS,
of Surrey Terrace, Lorrimore Road, both in the County of Surrey, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Rudolph Schomburg and Adolph Baldamus, Her special licence
that we, the said Rudolph Schomburg and Adolph Baldamus, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Rudolph Schom-
burg and Adolphi Baldamus, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS APPLICABLE TO ALL KINDS OF OILS USED FOR ILLUMINATING PURPOSES WHEREBY
COMBUSTION THEREOF IS RENDERED MORE PERFECT, SMOKE PREVENTED, AND THE
PURITY OF THE LIGHT INCREASED," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said Rudolph Schomburg and Adolph Baldamus, or one of us, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or one
of our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Rudolph Schomburg and Adolph
Baldamus, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had
to the Drawing hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
Our Invention consists in leading the vapor from water to all kinds of oils
while burning in lamps, whereby combustion is rendered more perfect, and
the purity of the light increased. The heat generated when the wick is
lighted causes the vapor of water to ascend in a hollow cone or conical

page_text: chamber round the wick tube and issue in contact with the flame about or
above the point of its generation. A thin film of vapor rises from the
water vessel up a narrow channel or space between two cones or conical caps
with apertures through or between which the flame passes. The water vessel
is by preference surrounded by another vessel or chamber between which
a passage is formed through which air passes to the flame.
The accompanying Drawing is a longitudinal section of so much of a
lamp as is necessary for showing our method of carrying our Invention into
effect.
a is a vessel containing water, which is admitted through the opening b
closed by a screwed or other stopper; c is a hollow cone or conical chamber
surrounding the wick tube d; e is an inverted cup shaped or conical vessel
placed over the cone c in such manner as to leave a narrow channel or space
between it and the cone c; f is an outer case through which air passes
to the outside of the flame. The heat from the flame causes vapor from the
water in the vessel a to rise through the space between the conical caps
cand e to the flame. Atmospheric air is led to the flame through the
spaces c and f; g, is the support or holder for the chimney. The other
parts of the lamp are of the ordinary construction. Instead of the vapor
from water being generated by the flame of the lamp it may be otherwise
generated and conveyed to the flame.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim, leading
the vapor from water to all kinds of oils while burning in lamps substantially
in manner and for the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Rudolph Schomburg, for myself and
on behalf of the said Adolph Baldamus, have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Thirteenth day of June One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-three.