Improvements in Apparatus for Lighting or Extinguishing Lamps: or Stoves at a Predetermined Time, or for like purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 21st Nov., 1896-Accepted, 20th Mar., 1897.
Improvements in Apparatus for Lighting or Extinguishing Lamps:
or Stoves at a Predetermined Time, or for like purposes.
I, HENRY JUSTINIAN NEWCOME of Shenley Hertfordshire Clergyman do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
On a stand between two uprights a vessel of water is fixed, communicating by
a cock which regulates the flow with another vessel below, which is suspended on a
central rod or axis, is balanced by a moveable weight and descends at any required
time. On this axis is fixed a section of a rise weighted on the upper portion and
falling in either direction required, but kept in position by a catch fixed in the
floor of the stand, and entering one of two notches in the lower portion of the disc..
The lower vessel when descending touches this spring, and the weighted upper
portion immediately falls the required distance. An upper rod connected with this
disc by wire or pulley moves simultaneously with it in either direction. This rod
projects through the upright to a lamp or stove and a pair of hinged nippers at the
extremity clasp the thuinbpiece of the lamp or stove and in one direction extinguishes
it, and in the opposite direction raises the wick, when it is relighted from a small
tube with a lighted wick which has been inserted and fixed on the outside of the
burner.
Dated this 28th day of August 1896.
Improvements in Apparatus for Lighting or Extinguishing Lamps.
or Stoves at a Predetermined Time, or for like purposes.
1 HRNKY JUSTINIAN NEWCOME of Shenley, Hertfordshire Clergyman, 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:-
Figure 1 on the drawing represents the fixed and moveable vessels of water and
the additional burner in the lamp.
Figure 2 is a sectional view of the weighted disc which will fall either to the.
right or left and extinguishes or relights the lamp.
On a stand A between two uprights B. B. a vessel C of water is fixed, communi-
cating with another vessel D below by a cook E which regulates the flow. This
lower vessel is suspended on a central rod or axis F and balanced by a moveable-
weight G and desconds at any required time. On this rod or axis a disc H heavily
weighted on the upper portion revolves, and falls in either direction in which it is
placed, but is kept in position by a catch or spring K which enters a notch L in the
lower portion of the disc till released by the lower vessel descending upon it..

page_text: The upper portion immediately falls the required distance, and by a strap and
pulley M. M. actuates an upper revolving rod N which projects beyond the
upright side, on the end of which either a pair of nippers or a small cup O clasp
the thumbpiece of the lamp and moving in one direction extinguishes it; but
in the other raises the wick again when it is relighted by contact with a small
lighted wick P in a tube Q within the burner "R, or fixed outside and fed
independently.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1st. The obtaining at any fixed time motion by water in a vessel balanced by
a sliding weight.
2nd. The automatic relighting a lamp or stove by a separate independent light.
Dated this Twentieth day of November 1896.
HENRY JUSTINIAN NEWCOME.