Year: 1838

page_text: LONDON:
PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE,
PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY :
PUBLISHED AT THE GREAT SEAL PATENT OFFICE,
25, SOUTHAMPTON BUILDINGS, HOLBORN.

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PALMER, of Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, Lamp
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Tenth day of July, in the second year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William
Palmer, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said William Palmer, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said William Palmer, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LAMPS;" in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso that I, the said William Palmer, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being there-
unto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Palmer, do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention, and the

page_text: manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon
(that is to say):-
My Invention is applicable to that description of lamps in which candles
are burned, and my Invention relates, first, to a mode of applying a glass
chimney to such lamps as burn candles.
.
Secondly, to apparatus for holding and supporting the shade and the chimney
of lamps employed in burning candles.
Thirdly, to an improvement in the mode of applying the cap and nozzle to
such lamps, in order to prevent the tube containing the candle getting so hot
as when the cap is placed in contact with the tube.
And, fourthly, my Invention relates to the application of tubes made of zinc
to such lamps as are used for burning candles, such zinc tubes being applied
for receiving the candles, together with the apparatus for forcing up the candles
to the nozle.
And in order to give the best information in my power, I will describe the
Drawing hereunto annexed..
Figure 1 represents an elevation of a table lamp, suitably constructed for
a is the
burning candles, and Figure 2 shows the cap and nozle in section.
pillar of the lamp, shown in dotted lines. This pillar may be of brass or other
metal, similar to those at present made, and may be constructed of any design
required, according to the taste of the maker or designer. 6 is the inner tube,
which is placed in the pillar a of the lamp. The inner tube b' is made of zinc,
and the edges of the metal of these tubes may be soldered or otherwise joined,
but this is not essential, as zinc plates having been formed into tubes will
retain their figure separately without the edges being joined. In the tube 6 is
placed the spring for forcing up the candle as it burns, in like manner to what
has heretofore been practised in making similar lamps with tin or other metals:
c is the holder for the shade d, and the upper part of the holder c supports the
chimney e, and this combining in the same holder the capability of carrying
the chimney; and the shade constitutes an important feature in my. Inven-
tion. is a ring, which embraces the chimney and prevents its being shaken
out of its place; and, further, the chimney is so applied to the upper
part of the lamp, that the lower end of the chimney shall be at a distance
above the nozel. I prefer that it should be three-quarters of an inch for a
large candle above the nozle, because by that means I am enabled to obtain
the most steady light of a candle so burned, and the proper distance for a
given-sized candle of any description of material will readily be ascertained

page_text: by a few trials. It will be seen that the cap and nozel is applied to the
upper end of the tube b (which contains the candle) in such manner as to
be at a distance therefrom, and thus allow of a space between the tube and
the cap, which will keep the inner tube cool, and render the inner tube less
liable to melt away the upper part of the candle. The cap is moveable by the
"stud h, which is affixed to the cap. On moving the cap, the stud passes between
ends of the projecting bands i, fixed on the upper end of the tube b, and
when the cap is on the stud h is turned under the lowest band i, which fixes
or retains it in its place.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
.the same is to be performed, I would remark that although I have shewn the
use of zinc as an inner tube to lamps, yet it will be evident that where only
one tube is employed, that tube may be of zinc. I would have it understood
that what I claim is,-.
First, the application of a glass chimney above the nozel of lamps constructed
to burn candles.
Secondly, the mode of constructing and arranging the holder of the shade
of such lamps as are used to burn candles, that the holder will support both the
shade and the chimney,, as above described.
Thirdly, I claim the mode of applying the cap in such manner that there is
a space between it and the tube which contains the candle.
And, fourthly, I claim the application of zinc tubes in the making of that
part of the lamps which contains candles, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Palmer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of January, One thousand eight hundred
and thirty nina

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Er the Matter of a Patent granted to WILLIAM PALMER, of Sutton
Street, Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, Lamp Manu-
facturer, for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LAMPS," bearing date at Westminster,
the Tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and thirty-eight, in the second year of the reign of Her
Majesty Queen Victoria, to which a Specification was duly enrolled.
DISCLAIMER proposed to be entered with the Clerk of the Patents for
England by the said William Palmer, pursuant to an Act passed in the
fifth and sixth years of the reign of His late Majesty King William
the Fourth, entitled "An Act to amend the Law touching Letters
Patent for Invention."
WHEREAS in the said Specification of my said Patent I did declare the
nature of my Invention to relate, first, to a mode of applying a glass, chimney
to such lamps as burn candles.
Secondly, in apparatus for holding and supporting the shade and the
chimney of lamps employed in burning candles.
Thirdly, to an improvement in the mode of applying the cap and nozle to
such lamps, in order to prevent the tube containing the candle getting so hot
as when the cup is placed in contact with the tube.
And, fourthly, to the application of tubes made of zinc to such lamps as are
used for burning candles, such zinc tubes being applied for receiving the
candles, together with the apparatus for forcing up the candles to the nozle.
And whereas since the inrolment of my said Specification I have discovered
that the parts of the Invention described under the third and fourth heads of
the Specification are not of such practical utility as to render it desirable to
retain them in my said Patent, I, the said William Palmer, am therefore
desirous of disclaiming them, and do hereby disclaim all that part of my
description in the body of the Specification which relates to the third and
fourth heads of the Invention, and also the third and fourth parts of the claim
at the end of the Specification which relate thereto.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Palmer, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
WM PALMER. (L.S.)

page_text: To the Clerk of the Patents of England.
This is to certify that the above-named William Palmer, of Sutton Street,
Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, Lamp Manufacturer, has applied to
me for leave to enter with you the above-written Disclaimer of part of the
Specification of a certain Invention, for which Letters Patent were granted to
him under the Great Seal of Great Britain, dated at Westminster, the 10th
day of July 1838, and to which a Specification was duly enrolled; and having
considered the said application, and no objection having been made to the
same, I have accordingly granted leave to the said William Palmer to file his
said Disclaimer, pursuant to the Statute passed in the fifth and sixth years
of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entituled "An
Act to amend the Law touching Letters Patent for Inventions:"
T
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of January,
in the year of our Lord 1844, the aforesaid William Palmer came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Disclaimer
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Disclaimer aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-third day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-four.