Improvements in Oil Lamps.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in Oil Lamps.
I, RICHARD PHILIP YORKE, of George Street, Hadleigh, in the County of Suffolk,
Bank Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Lamps in accordance with my invention are shown by the drawings annexed.
Figure 1, 2 and 3, show a lamp adapted to receive a cylindrical wick.
A. Wick space.
B. Air chamber fastened into holder.
C. Oil holder or reservoir.
D. Oil conducting pipes.
E. Central draught space.
F. Heat disperser and guard.
G. Opening with small air hole.
The wick space A is made easy to allow of the free and easy insertion of the
wick, and is tightened by means of a tube afterwards inserted, as shown.
Figures 4, 5 and 6 illustrate the application of the invention to a duplex flat wick
lamp.
a. Wick tubes.
b. Air chamber fastened into holder..
c. Oil holder or reservoir.
d. Oil conducting pipes, like small gas pipes.
e. Ventilation hole."
f. Heat disperser and guard.
9. Opening, with small air hole.
Tated this 9th day of March 1898
4. 13" 1.
I, RICHARD PHILIP YORKE, of George Street, Hadleigh, in the County of Suffolk,
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:-
The object of this invention is to prevent ignition or explosion of the vapour
inside the oil reservoirs of lamps, when the lamp is upset or blown out.
In the Specification of my former Patent No. 3782 of 1895 I described the
elongation of the wick tube downwards below the surface of the oil and the air

page_text: chamber surrounding the wick tube. According to the present invention I connect
the foot of the wick tube to the reservoir by means of pipes and I also provide the
top of the oil reservoir with a double casing.
Lamps in accordance with my invention are shown by the drawings annexed to
the Provisional Specification.
Figures 1, 2 and 3, show a lamp adapted to receive a cylindrical wick.
A. Wick space.
B. Air chamber fastened into holder.
C. Oil holder or reservoir.
D. Oil conducting pipes.
E. Central draught space.
F. Heat disperser and guard.
G. Opening with small air hole.
The wick space A is made easy to allow of the free and easy insertion of the
wick, and is tightened by means of a tube afterwards inserted, as shown.
Figures 4, 5 and 6 illustrate the application of the invention to a duplex flat wick
lamp.
a. Wick tubes.
b. Air chamber fastened into holder.
c. Oil holder or reservoir.
d. Oil conducting pipes, like small gas pipes.
e. Ventilation hole."
f. Heat disperser and guard.
9. Opening, with small air hole.
In the drawings the lamps are shown with wicks but my invention is applicable
to vapour lamps in which no wicks are used...
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. In oil lamps connecting the foot of the burner or wick tube to the oil reservoir
by a pipe or pipes substantially as described.
2. Improvements in oil lamps substantially as described and illustrated in the
drawings.
Dated this 10th day of November 1908