A NEW OR IMPROVED SINGEING LAMP
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Savage, of Adderbury, in the County of
Oxford, Horse Breaker and Clipper, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED SINGEING LAMP."
Sealed the 20th April 1855, and dated the 23rd October 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Savage at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd October 1854.
I, GEORGE SAVAGE, of Adderbury, in the County of Oxford, Horse Breaker
and Clipper, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW
OR IMPROVED SINGEING LAMP" to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of a lamp to be used for singeing horses, constructed
in the following manner:-The body of the lamp consists of a flat or wedge-
shaped vessel, divided by a partition into two compartments, one of the said
compartments constituting the wick chamber, and the other compartment
being a reservoir to contain the wood naptha or other combustible liquid.
The handle of the lamp through which the naphtha is introduced opens into the
last-named compartment, and itself constitutes a part of the reservoir. The
communication between the reservoir and the wick chamber is effected by
means of a stop-cock, which may be opened and closed at pleasure. A second

page_text: stop-cock is fixed on the reservoir, for the purpose of admitting air into the
reservoir when the naphtha passes into the wick chamber.
Lamps constructed according to my Invention are much more uniform in
working, and more convenient to use, than singeing lamps of the ordinary
construction.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Savage in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd April 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
SAVAGE, of Adderbury, in the County of Oxford, Horse Breaker and Clipper,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight. hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs. and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Savage, Her special licence that I, the said George Savage,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Savage, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an, Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED SINGEING
LAMP, upon the condition. (amongst others) that I, the said George Savage,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Savage, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):
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My Invention consists of a lamp for singeing horses, constructed in the
manner herein-after explained and illustrated in the accompanying.Drawing.
Figure 1 represents, in front elevation, a lamp constructed according to my
Invention and Figure 2 represents a section of the same, taken through the

page_text: line a in Figure 1. The body of the. lamp consists of a flat or wedge-shaped
vessel, divided by the partition 6 into two compartments c, d. The compart-
inent d is the wick chamber, and the compartment c is a reservoir to contain
the wood naptha or other combustible liquid to be burned in the lamp. The
handle e of the lamp is hollow, and opens into the chamber c by its forked
extremities f, g; the ends of the extremities f, g, are open. h is a stop-cock,
which, when in the position represented. in Figure 2, opens a communica-
tion between the chambers c, d. When the stop-cock is in the position
represented in Figure 1, the communication between the said chambers c, d,
is closed. The reservoir c and handle e are filled with wood naptha by
unscrewing the cap i at the bottom of the handle e, and inverting the lamp so
as to bring the lower end k of the handle uppermost. The stop-cock h being
in the position indicated in Figure 1, by pouring the wood naptha in the end k
of the handle; the reservoir c and handle e may be filled therewith, and the
cap
i screwed on the end k of the handle e. By opening the stop-cock h, a
portion of the wood naptha will pass from the reservoir c to the wick chamber
d, and supply the wick with combustible matter. The stop-cock h must
now be closed, and the wick may be ignited. Portions of wood naptha are
allowed to enter the wick chamber d from time to time by occasionally
opening the stop-cock h; and inclining the lamp into a nearly horizontal
position. A stop-cock may be situated at the upper part of the reservoir c,
opening outside the lamp, so as to permit air to enter the said reservoir when
the wood naptha passes from the said reservoir to the wick chamber; but the
last-mentioned stop-cock may without much inconvenience be dispensed with;
for after the lamp has been lighted and the metal has become warm, the
vapour of the wood naptha which accumulates in the upper part of the
reservoir c has sufficient pressure to force the said wood naptha into the wick
chamber & when the stop-cock h is opened. In order more rapidly to transfer
the wood naptha from the reservoir c to the wick chamber d, I sometimes
employ two stop-cocks, as indicated at m, n, Figure 3, instead of one stop-
cock h, Figures 1 and 2. When I use two stop-cocks the handle e need not
be forked at that extremity which enters the reservoir. Instead of filling the
lamp from the bottom of the bandle, I sometimes introduce a feeder at the
upper part of the reservoir, as represented at o, Figure 3, the said feeder con-
sisting of an opening, closed by a plug or screw, or otherwise. When I place
a feeder on the reservoir, the bottom of the handle is not made moveable, as
the naptha is not introduced at the handle.
When the lamp is fed from a feeder on the reservoir, as at o, Figure 3, the
handle of the lamp is not made to project into the reservoir so far as to rise to

page_text: the level of the said feeder, otherwise there would be difficulty in filling the
handle with wood naptha. When the feeder o is used, the handle need not
project beyond the line p, Figure 3.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described, as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of my said Invention. But I claim as my
Invention, the method or methods herein described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing of constructing singeing lamps.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Savage, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
ALBERT WHITE,
Adderbury, April 20th, 1855.
GEORGE SAVAGE. (L.S.)