IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTING OIL AND SPIRIT LAMPS WITH THEIR PILLARS OR STANDS
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edmund Baller at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 13th November 1877.
EDMUND BALLER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers'
Clerk. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTING OIL AND SPIRIT LAMPS WITH THEIR PILLARS
OR STANDS."
My Invention consists of the construction and combination of parts herein-after
described, whereby the connection of the oil or spirit lamp with and its detachment
from the pillar or stand are effected with great facility, and the lamp when con-
nected with its pillar or stand is very steady.
By my Invention the ordinary method of connecting the lamp by screwing is
superseded.
My Invention is especially applicable to table lamps burning paraffin oil or other
volatile oils, but may also be applied to table and other lamps burning spirits and
fixed oils.
My Invention may also be applied to bracket and suspended lamps for connecting
the detachable oil or spirit lamps with the stands of the said bracket and suspended
lamps.
I will describe my Invention as applied to a table lamp. To the summit of the
pillar or stand of the lamp I attach by screwing or otherwise a dish-like circular
socket or holder consisting of a flat circular bottom or base provided at its edge
with a deep flange or rim standing at right angles to the said bottom or base. In
the axis of the said circular socket or holder a cylindrical peg or rod is fixed, the
said rod being of about an inch in length. Into this dish-like socket or holder the
foot or base of the oil or spirit reservoir of the lamp takes, the said foot or base being
flat at bottom and having a collar of a size proper to fit tightly within the flange or
rim of the said socket or holder.
The foot or base of the reservoir is also furnished with a hole or recess of a size
and shape proper for receiving the peg or rod in the axis of the socket or holder.
In order to connect the lamp with the pillar or stand, the foot of the reservoir of
the lamp is placed upon the central peg or rod on the socket or holder of the pillar
or stand, and lowered into the socket or holder so that the collar of the said foot

page_text: enters and engages with the deep flange or rim of the socket or holder. The lamp
is thereby very steadily and securely connected with the pillar or stand.
To remove the lamp from the pillar or stand it is only necessary to lift the lamp
vertically until the recess or hole in its foot or base is clear of the central peg or
rod of the socket or holder when the said lamp is disconnected, and may be removed
or supported upon its flat foot or base.
Instead of placing the peg or rod on the dish-like socket or holder described,
a peg or rod situated in a recess in the foot or base of the lamp reservoir may be
used, a central socket at the middle of the dish-like holder being made to receive
the said peg or rod in the base or foot, but I prefer the arrangement of parts herein
first described.
The peg or rod and the hole or socket to receive it may either be cylindrical or
of an angular figure in cross section. In the former case the lamp is capable of
moving on the peg or rod as an axis, but in the latter case the lamp is incapable
of a rotatory motion on the pillar or stand: