A BURNER UPON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION, APPLICABLE TO ALL KINDS OF LAMPS
Year: 1810

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, RICHARD
SEATON, of Berwick Street, in the Parish of Saint Jamos, and County of
Middlesex, Liquor Merchant, and THOMAS RICE, of White Cross Street, in
the Parish Saint Luke, Old Street, and County of Middlesex, Spring Roasting
Jack Makers, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of
September, in the fiftieth year of His reign, give and grant unto us, the said
Richard Seaton and Thomas Rice, our exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said Richard
Seaton and Thomas Rice, our exors, adññors, and assigns, should and lawfully
might, during the term of years therein mentioned, make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England and Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our
Invention of "A BURNER UPON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION, APPLICABLE TO ALL
KINDS OF LAMPS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
that if we, the said Richard Seaton and Thomas Rice, or one of us, shall not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under our
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, and cause the same
to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that

page_text: then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as by the
said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Richard Seaton and Thomas Rice, do hereby declare that the nature of our
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are
particularly described and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto
annexed, and the following description thereof, that is to say :-
Fig. 1 is an exterior view of a common lamp, with the patent burner and
cover applied to the same, complete. Fig. 2 is a section of Fig. 1, the lamp,
cover, and burner exhibiting the whole of the inter parts put together. Fig. 3,
the exterior of the lamp as Fig. 1, the dotted lines describing (through the
same) each part within. Fig. 4, the lamp detached from the cover, with the
improved neck applied to the same, shewing the apertures (c) in the neck, for
the air to pass between the plates of the burner (a, a), Figs. 2 and 7, to the
cotton. Fig. 5, the burners detached; (a, a,) the plates, (b, b,) the apertures,
through which the air passes to the cotton. Fig. 6, the neck and screw detached
from the lamp, to which it should be fixed, as in Fig. 4. Fig. 7, the lamp cover
detached; (h) a female screw, by which it is screwed on to the male screw of the
neck of the lamp (f). Fig. 8, a nut, with a male screw (9), which fastens the
whole by screwing into the female screw of the neck (e) down upon the plate
of the burner (a, a), and confines the burner from falling out and the cover
from coming off. The burners, Fig. 5, being trimmed with cotton, as Fig. 2,
are dropped into the lamp, Fig. 4, which is previously filled with oil, the plates
(a, a,) of the burner resting upon ledges in the neck of the lamp, Fig. 4 and 6,
as seen in the section; the cover, Fig. 8, is then screwed on, which acts as a
blower, the air passing up the channel (d), Fig. 2 and 3, between the exterior
of the lamp and interior of the cover, enters through the apertures in the
neck, marked (c) in Fig. 2, 3, 4, and 6, and passing between the plates of the
burner (a, a,) enters through the holes in the burners (b, b,) into the cotton
wick; by which contrivanco greater quantity of air is thrown up through
the cotton wick into the flame, which causes the oil to burn with a brilliant
white light, and combustion is more perfectly carried on, causing all the grosser
particles of common oil to be consumed without any smell or smoke. This
contrivance is also applicable to lamps of any other sort besides the common
lamp. Fig. 9 displays an handsome sort of brass lamp, which may be used
with a glass, whereof Fig. 10 is the section, shewing the manner of applying
the patent burners to the same, and the passages for air and oil; the various.

page_text: parts of which are lettered agreeable to the foregoing description. Fig. 11 is a
workman's lamp, mounted on a rod for the purpose of elevating to any height;
Fig. 12 is a section of the same, showing its internal parts. Lamps of these or
any other form or kind may have this improved burner applied to them, and
the burners may be may be made to have one, two, three, or more round pipes
or tubes, or may be formed of flat pipes, as Fig. 14, or of crescent pipes, as
Fig. 13, or various other formed pipes, at pleasure.
In witness whereof, we, the said Richard Seaton and Thomas Rice, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-sixth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and ten.