Improvements in the Spirit Lamps used by Hair-dressers.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 9th June, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Spirit Lamps used by Hair-dressers.
1, JULIEN MICHEL, of 15bis Boulevard St. Denis, Paris, in the Republic of
France, Hair-dresser, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
n and by the following statement and accompanying drawing, that is to say :-
My present invention relates to a spirit lamp to be used by hair-dressers for
heating curling tongs and other like implements, a device being used by which
lateral pressure cau be communicated to the wick in order to regulate the flame,
which has only heretofore been possible by the use of a pointed instrument exposing
the user to the danger of burning his fingers.
The improved arrangement also allows the lamp to be used as a night lamp.
In the accompanying drawing which is in illustration of my invention,
Figure represents in plan a hair-dresser's spirit lamp provided with my
improvements,
Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section made through the centre of the wick, and
Figure 3 shews a pair of curling irous which can be placed to be heated upon the
supports illustrated in Figure 1.
A is the spirit holder or reservoir, flat in shape and of considerable length. The
wick is enclosed in a circular chamber B which can be closed by a cover C.
The wick M is held in a kind of inverted tube or holder of suitable shape pierced
with a sufficient number of holes for the passage of the spirit and carried by a
curved arm at the lower end of a rack F which is guided in a tube upon the box B,
the wick being capable of being raised and lowered by means of a pinion G
engaging with the rack and fixed upon the axis of an external button H.
The main feature of my improved invention consists in the method of exerting a
lateral pressure against the wick by means of a small metal plate I upon the
back of which plate is fixed a loop or bracket J which holds the head of a screw K
having a milled head L outside the case exactly opposite to the one H already
described, by means of which the plate 1 can be pressed against or withdrawn from
the wick.
When the milled head L is turned in one direction the upper edge of the metal
plate presses with more or less force against the wick, reducing the thickness of the
fatter to a corresponding extent.
This device constitutes a very accurate method of regulating the flame.
Round the screw K a washer or tube of india rubber may be arranged to prevent
the spirit from passing.
It is evident that the screw K may be replaced by any other equivalent device by
which the lateral pressure of the plate against the wick may be effected.
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 :-
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1. A hair-dresser's spirit lamp, the flame of which can be regulated by means
metal plate I pressed against the side of the wick with more or less force by means
of the screw K operated by the exterior button L substantially as described and
illustrated.
2. The combination with the lamp described in Claim 1, of the device for raising
and lowering the wick consisting of a wick holder E, a vertical rack F upon the

page_text: Jower curved edge of which the wick holder E, is fixed, and a pinion with an
external button H by means of which the rack can be raised and lowered,
substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 25th day of April 1894.
EDWARDS & Co.,
65 & 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.