IMPROVEMENTS IN LANTERNS FOR APFORDING LIGHT AND FOR COOKING
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Clarke, of Albany Street, Regent's Park, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LANTERNS
FOR APFORDING LIGHT AND FOR COOKING"
Sealed the 4th March 1856, and dated the 11th December 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Clarke at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th
December 1855.
- I, SAMUEL CLARKE, of Albany Street, Regent's Park, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN LANTERNS FOR AFFORDING LIGHT AND FOR COOKING" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of constructing lanterns each with two or more
candle lamps or tubes, in such manner that one or more candles may be
burned therein, according to the quantity of light and heat it is desired to
obtain. For this purpose each lantern is constructed with two or more candle
lamps or tubes, each suitable for burning a candle, and it is preferred that the
lantern should be divided into as many compartments as there are candle
lamps or tubes, and that there should be a reflector at the back of each
candle lamp or tube. The lantern is glazed in front of each candle lamp or
tube, and there is a door to give access to the same. Above each candle.

page_text: lamp or tube is a conical passage for the heated air and products to pass off
to the upper part of the lantern, which is arranged with a cover and a perfo-
rated head. Within the cover and above the candle lamps or tubes the space
is suitably arranged for receiving a kettle or pan and other cooking utensils.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Clarke in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th June 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
CLARKE, of Albany Street, Regent's Park, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Clarke, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Clarke, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel
Clarke, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN LANTERNS FOR
AFFORDING LIGHT AND FOR COOKING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Samuel Clarke, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Samuel Clarke, 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:-
This Invention consists of constructing lanterns, each with two or more
candle lamps or tubes, in such manner that one or more candles may be
burned therein according to the quantity of light and heat it is desired to

page_text: obtain. For this purpose each lantern is constructed with two or more candle
lamps or tubes, each suitable for burning a candle, and it is preferred that the
lantern should be divided into as many compartments as there are candle
lamps or tubes, and that there should be a reflector at the back of each
candle lamp or tube. The lantern is glazed in front of each candle lamp or
tube, and there is a door to give access to the same. Above each candle
lamp or tube is a conical passage for the heated air and products to pass off
to the upper part of the lantern, which is arranged with a cover and a perfo-
rated head. Within the cover and above the candle lamps or tubes the space
is suitably arranged for receiving a kettle or pan and other cooking utensils.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a vertical section of a lantern constructed according to my
Invention; Figure 2 shows a horizontal section thereof. The object of the'
Invention is so to construct the lower part of a lantern that two or more
candle lamps may be combined together, in order that one or more candles
may be used at a time, according as less or more light and heat may be
required. The lantern is made to obtain the maximum light and heat which
may at any time be required, yet it is not necessary that the whole power
should be used at all times, as only one or more candles may be used for the
time being when a lesser quantity of light or heat is required. The arrange-
ment shown is for four candle tubes a, a, a, a, but other numbers of candle
tubes may be combined together in a similar manner. The perforated bottom
6 of the lantern is made with as many sockets c as there are candle tubes to
be used at any one time in a lantern, and one or more candle tubes may be
introduced and used, according to the quantity of light and heat required for
the time being. a, a, are candle tubes, which are similar to those used in
candle lamps, the candles being pressed up to the nozels, as heretofore, by
springs. e is the cover, which folds back on a hinge or joint at e¹; below this
cover the upper part of the lantern is formed suitable for receiving a vessel or
pan for cooking purposes, and such cooking vessel f may, as shown, be of
such form as to be shut in by the cover e, or it may require the cover to be
open. Above the candle lamps, or tubes there is a cone g descending into the
lantern from the centre of the perforated plate h. In some cases I divide
the lantern by vertical partitions into as many compartments as there are
candle lamps or tubes used, and I make the same of bright metal, so that

page_text: they may be useful. as; reflectors, in which cases, there would be formed a
conical opening in the plate h for each candle lamp.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I. do not claim, the
parts separately, nor do I confine myself to the form shewn; but what I claim
is, the combining of the parts of a lantern in such manner that several candle
lamps or tubes may be combined in the same lantern.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Clarke; have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six...
Witness,
HENRY W. CARPMAEL.
SAMUEL CLARKE. (L.S.)