Improvements relating to the Lighting and Extinguishing of Oil Lamps.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 11th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 28th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Lighting and Extinguishing of Oil
Lamps.
I, JULIUS ECKEL of 50 Wasserthorstrasse Berlin Germany, Lamp Manu-
facturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to apparatus to be attached to or made as a part of a
lamp adapted to burn petroleum or other oil, by which apparatus the lamp may
be lit by an electric current; the invention also relates to a pneumatic apparatus
by which the lamp may be extinguished without removing the chimney.
The improved lighting apparatus consists of an electric battery, preferably a
dry voltaic pile which may either be placed in the stand or base of the lamp or
in the counterweight if it is a suspended lamp. The wire leads from the poles
of this battery lead to two pins near the head of the burner, a contact button
being inserted in a circuit. In a standing lamp the wires are led up through the
stand, but for a hanging lamp, one of the wires may lead to a press button on
the wall of the room or may hang as a suspended push device from the lamp.
In the lamp are insulated tubes to receive the aforesaid pins at the ends of the
wire leads, and in the burner of the lamp are other pins to be inserted in the
other ends of said tubes. These latter pins are joined by a platinum wire located
in close proximity to the wick and adapted to be rendered incandescent on passage
of the current and so light the lamp.
The connection by tubes and pins as aforesaid enables the lamp to be removed
from its stand or suspending frame and the burner to be removed from the lamp
reservoir.
The improved device for extinguishing the lamp by pneumatic apparatus,
consists of a pneumatic ball located under the stand of the lamp and communi-
cating by a flexible rubber pipe with the metal tube near the lamp wick, which
tube is directed to extinguish the lamp when the pneumatic ball is compressed
by pressure on the outer end of a lever pivoted under the frame of the lamp.
Dated this 11th day of February 1892.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.Č., Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Lighting and Extinguishing of Oil
Lamps.
I, JULIUS ECKEL, of 50 Wasserthorstrasse, Berlin, Germany, Lamp Manu-
facturer, 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 relates to apparatus to be attached to or made as a part of a lamp
adapted to burn petroleum or other oil, by which apparatus the lamp may be lit by
an electric current; the invention also relates to a pneumatic apparatus by which
the lamp may be extinguished without removing the chimney.
The improved lighting apparatus consists of an electric battery, preferably a dry

page_text: orifice near the wick, a detachable flexible pipe thereto and a compressible air
expeller in the base of the lamp, with or without a lever for the compression
thereof.
Dated this 10th day of November 1892.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.