Improvements in Hurricane or Stable Lanterns.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 21st Nov., 1895-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hurricane or Stable Lanterns.
I, WILLIAM BESTWICK of 7, Ball Haye Street, Leek, in the County of
Stafford, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My improvements have for their object to provide a hurricane or stable lantern
in which the light, when needed, can be extinguished much more quickly and
conveniently than at present, and further so to provide that the heat given off from
the light will pass out more freely than hitherto whereby the glass will be less
likely to crack and also the light will be less likely to jump.
I attain the above objects by providing the top of the lantern with a little
hinged or movable cap perforated, preferably on its side or sides.
The top of the lantern may be provided with a small piece of tubing on to which
the cap fits so as to secure a more perfect joint.
To extinguish the light it is simply necessary to turn back the cap when the
light can be easily blown out. Further the perforations in the cap allow of the
beat passing off more readily.
Birmingham. 20th February 1895.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Hurricane or Stable Lanterns.
I, WILLIAM BESTWICK of 7, Ball Have Strect, Leek, in the County of
Stafford, Ironmonger, 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 :-
This invention has reference to hurricane lanterns or lamps to be used in stables
and outhouses, and is a lantern specially adapted to be carried about during windy
weather, and the object of my said improvements is, first, to enable the said lantern
or lamp to be more easily, quickly, and conveniently extinguished when required,
secondly, that the heat given off from the flame is enabled to pass more freely
away, which prevents the chimney or glass from cracking, owing to its becoming
extremely hot, and, thirdly, promoting a better circulation throughout the lamp so
that the flame will burn steadily.
I attain these said objects by fitting the crown or heating chamber of the lantern
or lamp with a central and vertical all-through passage or shaft, the upper part of
which is closed by a perforated cap, or its equivalent, fitted to the crown part of
the body of the lamp and adapted to cover up the passage.or shaft as aforesaid.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in elevation, with part broken
Csection, a hurricane lantern or lamp arranged and constructed according to my
invention.

page_text: Fig. 2 is a like view as Fig. 1 but with the cap or closure thrown back for the
purpose of enabling the user to extinguish the flame by blowing down the vertical
and tubular passage before described.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures of the
sheet of drawings.
a is the base and container having a central part a², surmounted by a burner a³,
provided with ordinary wick raising means and which said base and container is
fitted with suitable means for filling.
Mounted upon a wire frame b, standing up from the base a, is a carrier b², within
which is fitted a glass chimney 63 adapted to encircle the burner and flame, and
which said chimney is held in its erect position by spring arms e fixed to the body
of the lamp.
Disposed just above the top of the said chimney and connected rigidly to the
burner by air conducting tubes d, d², is a heating chamber e, partially closed at its
top by a dome-shaped lid e2, and also partially closed at its lower part by a plate e³,
having perforations e¹ therein, and also a middle piercing e, and which said plate e
is connected to the walls of the heating chamber e by the metal at the edges of the
said plate being turned over and on to the metal of the walls of the heating
chamber as aforesaid.
The conducting tubes d, d², are open at both their ends and take into the
interiors of the heating chamber and the middle part of the burner respectively.
Centrally and vertically arranged within the interior of the heating chamber e is
a tubular passage or shaft fopen at both its top and bottom ends f2, 3, and which
said top end is extended a little beyond the dome-like lid e2 of the heating
chamber for the purpose of forming a seating for a cap g hinged at g² to the lid e²
of the heating chamber e, and provided with piercings or perforations g³, and a
projection 94, for the opening and closing of the cap, and which said cap is adapted',
to cover up the open mouth f2 of the tubular passage f when required.
Depending from the plate 3 are brackets e, e', carrying a perforated cover h
which prevents any down draft to the burner.
In Fig. 1 the lamp is shown alight and the products and heat therefrom are
quickly drawn from the interior of the chimney up the tubular passage f, and out
through the piercings or perforations g³ in the cap, and by which the glass chimney
is prevented from becoming too hot and so preventing its fracture.
In Fig. 2 the cap g is shown thrown back on its hinge g², and the flame in the
lantern has been extinguished by simply blowing down the tubular passage f.
I wish it to be understood that hitherto the extinguishing of such lanterns has
been of considerable trouble, inasmuch as the glass chimney becomes too hot to be
thrown back on its hinge to get to the burner and so blow out the flame, and
therefore, in some lanterns, it is necessary to blow out the light through a hole in
the gallery or chimney carrier which is extremely objectionable, as it is necessary
to get underneath the lantern to accomplish the same. According to my invention
it is only necessary to remove the hinged cap g to effectively extinguish the light.
In the arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the hinged cap retains its position,
when closed, by nicely fitting the extension of the tubular passage f, but if necessary
I may arrange the cap to have a snap action on to the extension, or any other
simple means for holding it in its position.
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 :-
First. In hurricane.lauterns or lamps, providing the same with an all-through
passage or shaft, or passages or shafts, and a perforated cap, caps, or their
equivalents, for the purposes substantially as described and set forth...
Second. In hurricane lanterns or lamps, fitting and arranging centrally within
the crown of the same an all-through passage or shaft, extending through the top
of the crown and provided with a hinged perforated cap adapted to close the

page_text: open top of the passage or shaft as aforesaid for the purposes as described and
set forth.
Third. The arrangement, combination, and fitting of the parts of hurricane
lanterns or lamps constituting my improvements substantially as described and
set forth.
Dated this 20th day of November 1895.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 11, Burlington Chambers, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.