IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH BURNERS FOR OIL LAMPS
Year: 1884

page_text: I ALBERT RETTICH of 34 & 35 Gerrard Street, Soho, Middlesex, Lamp Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN AND CONNECTED WITH BURNERS FOR OIL LAMPS to be as follows:―
The object of my invention is to fit or arrange certain appliances to oil lamp
burners in order to obviate inconveniences that now exist and to render the burner
easier to manipulate, notably for increasing the light or intensity of flame, and also
for more readily inserting and holding the wick or wicks without intorfering with
the flow of oil up them.
According to one part of my invention I fit or arrange an additional disc above
or below the usual flame spreader or central button of a circular wick or a
compound circular or of a mitrailleuse or many wick (circular) lamp burner, said
additional disc being part of attached to or slid on, the central stem (solid or
tubular) with such a distance between them that the heated air generated in the
chamber, combined with the heat of the spreader itself an increased brilliancy of
flame is produced.
According to another part of my invention which is based upon the mitrailleuse
wicked oil lamp invention patented by me on April 10th in the year 1883 N° 1987,
I provide the cotton supports or carriers each with a couple of lips springing from
the inside towards the outside of the frame, whereby the flow of oil to the tips of
the wicks is not interfered with as with the tongues referred to in the specification
of the before mentioned patent.
This arrangement of the lips enables the wicks to be readily inserted into the
wick tubes and be adjusted by pulling them up or down by hand.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the Applicant,

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I ALBERT RETTICH of 84 and 35 Gerrard Street, Soho, Middlesex, Lamp
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN AND CONNECTED WITH BURNERS FOR OIL LANTS" 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 fit or arrange certain appliances to oil lamp
burners in order to obviate inconveniences that now exist and to render the burner
easier to manipulate, notably for increasing the light or intensity of flame and also
for more readily inserting and holding the wick or wicks without interfering with
the flow of oil up them.
.
According to one part of my invention I fit or arrange an additional disc above
or below the usual flame spreader or central button of a circular wick or a
compound circular or of a Mitrailleuse or many wick (circular) lamp burner said
additional disc being part of, attached to or slid on, the central stem (solid or
tubular) with such a distance between them that the heated air generated in the
chamber combined with the heat of the spreader itself, an increased brilliancy of
flame is produced.
The invention above described will be understood by reference to the annexed
drawings in which at Figure 1 I show a detached view of my double buttoned
stem A, the two discs B, C, being of different diameters and at a distance apart
which distance may be increased or diminished by, preferably, sliding the lower
disc C upon the stem A. In practice the two discs would be both fixed and
they may be of the same diameter, the heated air arising up the centre passage of
the lamp, becoming checked and more highly heated by the button C before
entering the chamber between the two buttons where it becomes so intensely
heated as to sensibly increase the brilliancy of the flame in which it burns while
passing over the button B. The under disc C may be solid or it may be
perforated or formed of wire gauze to split up the air into fine streams in passing
through it.
The stem A may be hollow or solid and has the usual bottom disc D or not
to rest upon the cross bar E as seen at Figure 2 which shows its position within
a many wicked or Mitrailleuse Lamp the stem setting on the pedestal F which
centralizes it.
The two buttons B, C, may be truly circular or one or both of them may have a
wavy edge as desired.
According to another part of my invention which is based upon the Mitrailleuse
wicked oil lamp Invention patented by me on April 10th in the year 1883 N° 1987
I provide the cotton supports or carriers each with a couple of lips springing from
the inside towards the outside of the frame whereby the flow of oil to the tips of
the wicks is not interfered with as with the tongues referred to in the specification
of the before mentioned patent.
This arrangement of the lips enables the wicks to be readily inserted into the
wick tubes and be adjusted by pulling them up or down by hand this will be

page_text: understood by Figure 3 which shows one of my improved wick tubes G provided
with slots Hat the termination of which the metal is formed with lips I which
grip or exert sufficient pressure upon the cotton when pulled through as to hold it
in place and prevent it dropping but yet leave the cotton loose enough for the oil
to flow freely up from the oil well.
These tubes are arranged in circular form as seen in Figures 2 and 4 with a clear
space between for the passage of air through the perforations of the gallery J to
the interior chamber within the range of tubes to feed the inner portion of the
flame, the air for feeding the outer portion of the flame passing up the annular
chamber K of the chimney holder in the usual manner.
The tubes arranged as above mentioned are attached to the disc L this having
the rack M fixed to it so that all the tubes can be raised, en masse, when the
thumb button or winder N and pinion P are actuated.
The upper ends of the tubes are connected in a similar manner to a ring shaped
collar Q
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. The employment of two discs at a distance apart at the upper end of the
central stem of a lamp having one or more wicks arranged in circular order at the
burning point as and for the purpose described and substantially as shown at
Figures 1 and 2 of the annexed drawings.
2. The lipped wick holder tube arranged substantially as shown at Figure 3 and
the combination of a number of said tubes in ring form as shown at Figures 2 and 4
of the annexed drawings for the purpose set forth.