IMPROVEMENTS IN BURNERS FOR HURRICANE AND OTHER LAMPS OR LANTERNS
Year: 1885

page_text: I PAUL KOEPPEN, of the firm of "Koeppen & Wenke" Lamp Manufacturers of
N° 58 Waldemar Strasse in the City of Berlin and German Empire, do hereby
declare the nature of my Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BURNERS FOR
HURRICANE AND OTHER LAMPS OR LANTERNS" and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention relates principally to improvements in burners for hurricane lamps
or lanterns or more especially for lamps in which no chimneys are used but which
can be applied in like manner to any other kind of lamp or lantern.
The object of my invention is to prevent the sudden extinguishing of the flame
through shock against the lamp or lantern or in case the latter are subjected to
violent gusts of wind where, as is well known, the flame is suddenly forced down
into the burner, is reduced to a minimum and is then generally extinguished.
Heretofore no arrangement or device existed against the former draw-back, and
the latter was sought to be avoided by a complicated arrangement for admitting
air, so that the direct entrance of air to the flame was avoided.
Both of these drawbacks, the abrupt extinguishing of the fame by sudden
concussions, or violent gusts of wind, are remedied in the simplest manner through
my invention the principal advantages of which are the inexpensive manufacture
of the improved article and its practical value.
Figure 1 of the drawings represents a side view.
Figure 2 a vertical section and
Figure 3 a plan or top view of my.improved burner.
The burner cap a is so formed, that by means of an outward flange b, it surrounds
the burner slot c, but projects a little above the latter.
At the outer periphery or circumference the burner is provided with suitable
holes or openings d for the admission of air, while at the same time at the narrow
part of the burner-cap below the burner e and the burner-slot c, there is a second
row of air admitting apertures f
Provided now the flame is forced down into the burner cap through a violent
concussion or gust of wind, it is, by means of the enlargement of the burner-cap
enabled to expand and at the same time find an escape through the upper apertures
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page_text: or orifices d, through which it can freely pass while at the same moment a fresh
supply of air to the flame, which is necessary for combustion, is allowed to enter
through the apertures or orifices f..
The apertures d in the projecting flange b have also the advantage that during
the undisturbed burning of the lamp or lantern, the air is compelled to enter from
above and then reach the flame from below, whereby the same is intensely
foreheated.
In the ordinary burners in use up to the present time the flame was suffocated
whenever, through a concussion or gust of wind, the same was forced down into
the burner, as it was neither able to expand in, nor escape from the said burner, if
its emergence from the burner slot was momentarily cut off through either of the
causes mentioned above.
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
The arrangement and construction of a burner for hurricane and other similar
lamps or lanterns for preventing the extinguishing of the flame through sudden
concussions or gusts of wind, consisting in the flange surrounding and projecting
above the level of the burner-slot, which said flange is provided with suitable
apertures or orifices for admitting air to the flame substantially as described above
and shown in the accompanying drawings.