New or Improved Attachments for Painters' Lamps and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 15th May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1899-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Attachments for Painters' Lamps and the like.
I, JOSEPH HUSSEY, of Mont Dore, Haverstock Road, Knowle, Bristol, in the
County of Gloucester, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to painter's lamps, such as are used for burning off paint
and the like from the doors and other fittings of buildings; and consists of
attachments for scraping the paint from the painter's knife commonly employed,
and for sheltering the flame of the lamp from the wind.
Either attachment may be affixed to a lamp separately from the other, but I
preferably combine the two.
The knife is formed integrally with a ring or band of steel or other metal;
the ring serving to encircle the lamp, and the knife projecting therefrom hori-
zontally, with its sharpened edge upwards. One end of the band is perforated
and attached to the knife by means of a thumb or other screw, which serves to
hold the band and knife rigidly to the lamp.
When the wind guard is employed I may affix it by the same screw, or so form
it as to slip on either the knife or the band. In either case the attachment is
of such a description that the wind guard can be temporarily fixed in any position
which best serves to shield the flame from the wind. The wind guard may be of
any convenient shape and formed either of metal or any other suitable material.
When the wind guard alone is employed it may be attached directly to the base
of the lamp in any convenient manner.
The painter holding the lamp in one hand, and the ordinary painter's knife
in the other, uses the latter to remove the burnt paint from the door or other
surface. When a quantity of burnt paint accumulates upon the painters knife, it
can be removed by rubbing it against the edge of the scraping knife which is
fixed to the lamp.
Dated this 15th day of Now 1000
WILLIAM J. MUNDEN.
75, Chancery Lane, Agent for the Applicant.
New or Improved Attachments for Painters' Lamps and the like.
I, JOSEPH HUSSEY, of Mont Dore, Haverstock Road, Knowle, Bristol, in the
County of Gloucester, Commercial Traveller, 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 painter's lamps, such as are used for burning off paint

page_text: and the like from the doors and other fittings of buildings; and consists of
attachments for scraping the paint from the painter's knife commonly employed,
and for sheltering the flame of the lamp from the wind or for shielding glass
in windows when burning paint off sash bars and similar work.
Either attachment may be affixed to a lamp separately from the other, but I
preferably combine the two.
The knife is formed integrally with a ring or band of steel or other metal;
the ring serving to encircle the lamp, and the knife projecting therefrom hori-
zontally, with its sharpened edge upwards. One end of the band is perforated
and attached to the knife by means of a thumb or other screw, which serves to
hold the band and knife rigidly to the lamp.
When the wind guard is employed I may affix it by the same screw, or so form
it as to slip on either the knife or the band. In either case the attachment is
of such a description that the wind guard can be temporarily fixed in any position
which best serves to shield the flame from the wind. The wind guard may be of
any convenient shape and formed either of metal or any other suitable material.
When the wind guard or shield alone is employed it may be attached directly
to the base of the lamp in any convenient manner.
The painter holding the lamp in one hand, and the ordinary painter's knife
in the other, uses the latter to remove the burnt paint from the door or other
surface. When a quantity of burnt paint accumulates upon the painter's knife, it
can be removed by rubbing it against the edge of the scraping knife which is
fixed to the lamp.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of a painter's lamp with the knife and band affixed
thereto.
Fig. 2 is a plan, and
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a knife and band detached from the lamp.
Fig. 4 is an elevation of a lamp shewing a knife and a wind guard affixed to
it by means of a band.
Fig. 5 is an elevation of a lamp shewing a wind guard affixed to its base.
X indicates the body of a painter's lamp of the ordinary type, Y is the nozzle
or burner and Z the handle.
To the body of this lamp is attached a knife A which projects horizontally
from the base of the lamp and is formed integrally with a band or ring of
metal A¹ of such shape and size as to nearly fit the body of the lamp; it in fact
fits closely thereto when fixed for use at a point at or near the lower end of the
lamp. The band is tightened and fixed in position upon the lamp by means of
a screw B which passes through the knife and through an extension or lug a
formed by one end of the band; being fixed by a fly nut B¹. Or a screw may
pass loosely through either the knife or lug and screw into the other of these
for the same purpose.
The knife A projects any suitable or convenient distance from the lamp and
has its upper edge a sharpened so as to be suitable for removing the paint from
the painter's knife. The knife may project from any part of the lamp but is
preferably disposed nearly below the lamp burner. In some cases the band is
affixed to the handle of the lamp.
In Figures 2 and 3 the shape of the band, knife, and screw fastening are shewn
more plainly, being removed from the lamp.
In Fig. 4 a wind guard shewn having a shank c which can be affixed to
the band in any convenient manner; it is here shewn as screwed at c¹ and capable
of sliding on the band A¹ and of being fixed in any position thereon.
In Fig. 5 the wind guard C is shewn as attached to a lamp where no knife
and band is employed; in this case the shank has an extension at right
angles thereto upon which clips are formed for holding the wind guard to
the lamp; in some cases a screw or other device is employed for this purpose.
It will be understood that I do not restrict myself to the particular shape of
the band, knife or wind guards shewn. Thus the band may have two lugs or

page_text: extensions independent of the knife through which the fastening screw passes;
the wind guard may be of any convenient shape and attached to the lamp by
any device which enables it to be so adjusted that it can be caused to shield the
flame from the wind from whatever direction it blows. In some cases also I
affix a pin rigidly to the lamp and form the socket of the wind guard of such
shape that it fits on this pin and is capable of being adjusted in any required
position relative to the lamp flame.
The knife may be rigidly attached to the lamp without the use of a band.
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. A painter's lamp having a knife attached to and projecting therefrom is
such manner that the scraping knife used by painters can be easily drawn across
it for the purpose of removing accretions of burnt paint and the like, substantially
as shewn and described.
2. The combination with a painter's lamp of a knife attached thereto and pro-
jecting therefrom in such manner that the scraping knife used by painters can
be easily drawn across it for the purpose of removing accretions of burnt paint
and the like, substantially as shewn and described.
3. For attachment to a painter's lamp, the combination of the knife A, the band
A', and the screw B, substantially as shewn and described.
4. The combination with a painter's lamp, of a windguard or shield sub-
stantially as shewn and described with reference to Figures 4 and 5.
5. The combination with a painter's lamp, of a wind guard or shield which
is capable of adjustment so as to shelter the flame from the wind in whatever
direction it may blow, substantially as shewn and described.
6. A painter's lamp having a scraping knife and a wind guard attached thereto,
substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.
Dated this 25th day of August 1899
WILLIAM J. MUNDEN,
75, Chancery Lane, Agent for the Applicant.