Improvements in and connected with Oil Feeding Suspension Lamps or Bracket Lamps and the like, also applicable for Analogous purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 6th July, 1897-Accepted, 9th Oct.,
1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Oil Feeding Suspension
Lamps or Bracket Lamps and the like, also applicable for
Analogous purposes.
I ALFRED JOHN RILEY. of 88 Great King Street Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Cycle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention
to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to provide means whereby Suspension Lamps or
Bracket Lamps and the like and other oil or liquid fed articles may be readily
supplied from a main tank or container placed at any suitable distance from the
Lamp or other article being fed, and my invention consists firstly in a main
tank, made of any suitable material and divided into three or more compartinents.
One to hold compressed air and fitted (either directly on to it or connected by
a tube at a distance) with an air valve and air gauge of any suitable description.
The second compartment holds oil or other liquid. The third compartment is
or may be placed on the top of the other two, and fitted with an airtight removable
plug, to connect it with compartment number two, which in its turn has an open
connection or pipe of any suitable length and description, which may be fitted
with a suitable valve if required to connect it with the air compartment number
one, oil or other liquid is placed in the top or third compartment, which is or
may be open at the top or otherwise constructed. By removing the moveable
plug the oil or liquid runs through the plug hole by its own weight and fills
compartment number two. By replacing the plug, compartment number two
remains airtight. I now connect a pipe of any suitable size, length or material,
to the bottom, or other suitable part of the second compartment, which pipe in
its turn is fitted with a main tap of any suitable description, situated at any required
distance from the tank. This pipe is the feed or delivery pipe which carries
the oil or other liquid direct to the article required to be fed. I now by any
description of air pump whether detached or otherwise to a valve, force air through
the valve into the air tank number one, till the required pressure is produced,
which pressure being communicated to tank number two, through the open con-
nection or pipe presses on the oil or other liquid and so forces it up said feed
pipe till it is stopped by the main tap or other arrangement on said feed pipe;
the opening of which allows it to proceed to the various tanks or vessels required
to be fed. The above described main tank may be made in separate compart-
ments or otherwise arranged if required, any other suitable method of forcing
the oil or other liquid through the delivery pipe may be used if required. The
said delivery pipe in connection with tank number two is preferably made to pass
through the side of the top or third tank and is fitted with a tap which must be
situated above the main tap before mentioned on this pipe; and opening into
the top or third tank; so that after the first or main tap is turned off, any surplus
oil or liquid remaining in the pipes may be discharged through this second tap
into the top or third tank.

page_text: I now proceed to describe the arrangements in connection with the Suspension
Lamps or brackets to be supplied or fed.
On each of the brackets I fix a tank or container of any desired shape and
size which is provided with one or more taps (or other suitable attachments) if
desired fitted into it, in such a manner that when turned on the tap or taps let
the oil or other liquid out of the said tank through suitably provided ways or
pipes direct to the containers in which the burners are fixed. The before named
feed pipe from the main tank is connected to the first of these bracket tanks or
containers which latter may be also fitted with an overflow pipe to lead to the
next bracket tank and so on till all the bracket tanks are connected; the overflow
pipe from the last tank or container returning to the top compartment of the
aforesaid main tank. The action is thus:-
To fill all or any of the bracket tanks or containers I first of all turn off all
the taps leading out of them. I also turn off the small tap on main pipe, I now
turn on the main tap and the oil is forced along the delivery pipe into the first
small bracket tank; having filled which it passes through the overflow pipe to
the next filling each one as it passes and then returning through the last over-
flow back to the top compartment of the main tank and immediately this occurs
I turn off the main tap, and turn on the smaller one above it and also all the
others that I wish to light so that the oil can have access to the burners. The
Suspension Lamps and the like brackets may be made so that they will slide
up or down or move in any other position. The feeding arrangement described
may be applied to any other uses suitable. If desired the oil can be made to
pass through a filter before entering the delivery pipe. Any description of
burner may be used with wicks or without. The vapour from the burners can be
made to pass through suitable pipes to condense it.
EDWD. J. PAYNE & SON,
Warwick Chambers, 104 Colmore Row, Birmingham,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Oil Feeding Suspension
Lamps or Bracket Lamps and the like, also applicable for
Analogous purposes.
I, ALFRED JOHN RILEY, of 88 Great King Street, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Cycle Manufacturer, 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 my invention is to provide more simple, safe, and reliable means
than are at present in use for supplying a number of oil lamps, or stoves, from
one main supply tank placed at any suitable distance from the articles to be fed.
In order that my invention may be the more readily understood, I append
hereunto three sheets of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred to.-
Figure 1 on Sheet 1 is a diagram representing the method of supplying lamps
with oil in accordance with my improved system.
On Sheet 2 Figure 2 is a sectional side elevation, Figure 3 a sectional end
elevation, and Figure 4 a plan of the main supply tank. Figure 5 is a sectional
view to a larger scale of the regulating tap or cock on the supply pipe.
On Sheet 3, Figure 6 is an elevation, with part in section, of a suspension lamp
arranged in connection with my improved oil supply system.

page_text: The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
The main tank is divided into three principal compartments as A, B, and C,
the closed compartment A being the compressed air storage chamber, the closed
compartment B the oil chamber, and the open top compartment C the everflow
chamber. An air pump or inflator as D) (preferably of the type employed_for
the inflation of pneumatic tyres of cycle and other vehicle wheels) is fitted at
one side of the tank and is connected with the compressed air chamber A by the
tube d. A suitable valve as a is fitted to the tube d for the purpose of exhausting
the compressed air from the chamber A when the chamber B is to be charged
with oil. Such charging is effected by removing the screw plug b and thus
allowing the oil placed in the upper or open top chamber C to flow into the
chamber B. When the chamber B is filled the aperture is closed by the screw
plug b, and after closing the valve a, the pump or inflator D is operated until
the air chamber A is charged to the required degree of pressure. As the air
chamber A is connected with the oil chamber B by the tube E the compressed
air flows from the chamber A to the chamber B and forces the oil up the feed
or supply tube F.
The pressure of the air within the chambers is indicated by the U shaped
gauge G which contains water and is fitted with a suitably graduated gauge
glass. I also sometimes employ a gauge glass for directly indicating the level
of the oil within the chamber B...
The regulating tap or cock H on the feed or supply tube F is of a two way
type such as illustrated at Figure 5, one way or passage through the cock forming
the communication between the upper and lower parts of the feed tube F, whilst
the other way or passage forms a communication between the upper part of the
feed tube and the drain or discharge tube f. The cock or tap plug is so arranged
that when the one passage is opened the other is closed; in the position of the
plug given at Figure 5, the passage between the upper part of the feed tube and
the drain or discharge tube f is open, whilst the other passage is closed.
When the passage between the upper and lower parts of the feed tube F is
opened, the oil is forced under the action of the compressed air through the
cock H and the upper part of the feed tube F to the tank or reservoir J of the
suspension lamp illustrated at Figure 1, and after such tank has been filled,
the oil, continuing to flow up the tube F, will pass through the tube F¹ leading
from (the tank J to the tank J' of the bracket or other lamp. The overflow from
the tank J¹ is returned by way of the tube 12 to the upper chamber C of the main
supply tank. On the appearance of the oil at the mouth of the overflow tube F2
the attendant knows that the whole of the lamp reservoirs are completely charged
and he then closes the tap H and by such closing movement opens the passage
between the upper part of the feed tube and the drain or discharge tube f. The
tube F then empties itself of the surplus oil which is returned to the main tank,
and as the tubes FF2 also automatically empty themselves, the whole of the
tubes in the system will be relieved not only of pressure but of the oil itself,
whilst the lamp tanks or reservoirs remain charged.
I preferably attach a wire gauze or other filtering device at K or in any other
suitable position, to arrest any dirt or grit which would otherwise be forced
through the feed tube into the lamp reservoirs or containers.
The lamp reservoirs or containers are each provided with a three way tap or
cock as L, one way or passage being for the admission of atmospheric air to the tank,
the second way or passage forming the communication between the tank and the
tubes to the containers M immediately under the burners, whilst the third way
or passage admits the oil from the feed or supply tube. The first and second
passages are opened and closed together by the one movement of the tap, but
when such passages are opened the third passage is closed, and in the same
manner when the third passage is open the others are closed. For the purpose
of feeding the lamp tanks the taps L must be so turned that the first and second
passages are closed whilst the third is open for the admission of oil.
At the con-

page_text: clusion of the filling or charging of the lamp tanks the taps L are turned in the
reverse direction, thus closing the third and opening the first and second passages.
By thus arranging the tanks and their regulating taps or cocks the charging of
the tanks with oil can be safely effected whilst the lamps are burning.
The tubes N of the suspension lamps have their upper ends to the atmosphere,
and thus serve as condensers for the oil vapour that may arise from the containers M.
It will be understood that I can arrange my intermittent system of oil feeding
from the one main supply and distributing tank to suit any desired number of
lamps or stoves arranged in series in the manner hereinbefore described and as
illustrated. I sometimes employ my system of distribution for the purpose of
supplying oil or liquid lubricant to a number of machinery bearings and to other
analogous purposes.
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 combination of parts constituting the intermittent system
of distributing oil from one main tank and consuming the same substantially as
described and as illustrated.
Dated this 5th day of July 1897.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.