improvements in Portable and other Lamps and the Manufacture thereof.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Lef!, 26th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
improvements in Portable and other Lamps and the Manufacture
thereof.
I, JOSEPH SENIOR of Bridge Street, Wakefield, in the County of York,
Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My present invention relates to portable or other lamps which burn paraffin or
other oils and has for its object to construct a lamp so that light may be directed
through the bottom part to the ground, as well as from the sides in the usual way
and to arrange the burner and oil vessel so that a more economical means of burning
is secured and the wick may be inore expeditiously regulated than is the case in
lamps of this class constructed as hitherto, to attain which I arrange my improved
lamp with a transparent bottom part and so place the burner within the lamp, that
the light is directed to the bottom as well as the sides.
The oil vessel is either made with or attached to the door or back part of lamp
which is arranged to swing open and the said oil vessel is connected by a supply
pipe which extends preferably at right angles therefrom to my improved burner
which latter when the door of lamp is closed extends in preferably a vertical
direction at the centre part within the lamp.
The said burner has an outer casement arranged with a channel at its upper part
so as to catch any waste oil running from the wick and also a slot at the upper part
and one side thereof, through which passes a projection or pin which is attached to
a wick carrier.
The said wick carrier is stamped out of sheet copper and is open at one side and
perforated at the opposite side so that when it receives the wick and is placed in
the casement the oil can get all round or at both sides of said wick.
The wick is first placed in the carrier, and they are both then placed in the case-
ment with the open side of the carrier towards the oil supply pipe.
The oil runs from the vessel along the supply pipe to the burner and the wick
can be regulated by means of lifting or lowering the carrier such operation being
facilitated by means of the pin or projection.
I do not confine myself to any special shape of lamp, but in a portable lamp I
arrange a handle at the back and also one at the top in the usual way.
Dated this 27th day of January 1892.
H. F. BOUGHTON, M.I. Mech. E.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable and other Lamps and the Manufacture
thereof.
1 JOSEPH SENIOR of Bridge Street Wakefield in the County of York
Mechanical 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 :-
My present invention relates to portable or other lamps which burn paraffin or
other oils and has for its object to construct a lamp so that light may be directed
through the bottom part of the lamp to the ground as well as from the sides and to
arrange the burner and oil vessel so that a more economical and safer means of
burning is secured and the wick may be more expeditiously regulated than is the

page_text: case in lamps of this class constructed as hitherto to attain which I arrange my
improved lamp as set forth in the accompanying sheet of drawing in which
Fig. 1 is a side elevation Fig. 2 a sectional elevation on line a a of Fig. 3 which
latter is an inverted plan of my improved lamp.
Similar letters of reference denote corresponding parts in each view.
I arrange my improved lamp L with a transparent bottom part and so place the
burner within the lamp that the light is directed to the bottom as well as
the sides of lamp. The oil vessel V may be either made with or attached to
the door or back part d of lamp which part is made to swing open and the said oil
vessel V is connected by a supply pipe S to the burner a suitable wick w being
used. The burner when the door d of lamp is closed extends preferably in a
vertical direction and at the centre part within the lamp. The pipe S is arranged
with a channel on its outside so as to catch any waste oil running from the wick w
and the said wick is regulated in the burner b by means of a toothed roller worked
by a worm and worm wheel y the said worm being operated from the outside of
lamp by a wheel and rod e."
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I arrange the lamp with a handle at the top shielded by a shield s¹ over the
chimney n and I arrange also a handle at the back of the lamp so that it may be
conveniently carried about in the usual way.
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
1. In portable and other similar lamps the use of a transparent underpart p clear
of the oil vessel and burner substantially as described.
2. In portable and other similar lamps the fitting or fixing to the door or back
thereof the oil vessel and burner combined and arranged substantially as described.
Dated this 20th day of November 1892.
H. F. BOUGHTON, M.I. Mech. E.,
Sheffield.