IMPROVEMENTS IN OIL LAMPS AND CHANDELIERS
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM DANIELL of New Road Linslade in the County of Buckingham
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
OIL LAMPS AND CHANDELIERS" to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in the construction of oil lamps and in
arranging combining and mounting them in order to form chandeliers.
For this purpose I employ a reservoir for holding a supply of paraffin or other
oil or spirit. The reservoir may be supported and be capable of adjustment upon
a suitable pillar or support to stand upon a table or elsewhere as required or it
may be supported by a bracket against a wall or be mounted upon a fixed lamp
post. Or the reservoir may be suspended from the ceiling or other part of a room
or building to serve as an oil lamp chandelier the height or position of the reservoirs
and burners being capable of adjustment.
From the lower part of the reservoir one or more horizontal tubular arms extend
to any desired distance each terminating in a vertical tube corresponding in height
with the upper level of the oil or spirit in the reservoir. On the top of the
vertical tube the burner of the lamp is mounted which burner may be of the
ordinary construction with a wick tube and means for raising and lowering
the wick as required for lighting and extinguishing the lamp.
The wick passes down from the burner and along each horizontal arm up to the
reservoir and it is this feature which constitutes an important part of my
improvements as the continuous wick serves to feed the oil or spirit up to the
burner or burners as long as there is any left in the reservoir.
Several reservoirs may be mounted at different levels on the same support the
horizontal tubular arms and burners varying in length or distance from the
reservoirs so that several tiers of burners may be thus arranged to form an oil or
spirit lamp chandelier.
This improved lamp chandelier may be arranged with telescopic pendant fittings
to slide up and down and where a central reservoir is mounted upon a pillar its
height can be adjusted and fixed in the desired position.
By my improvements time and labour is saved in trimming lamps and a much
better steadier and brighter light is obtained.

page_text: I, WILLIAM DANIELL of New Road, Linslade, in the County of Buckingham,
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
OIL LAMPS AND CHANDELIERS " and in what manner the same is to be performed
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This Invention relates to improvements in the construction of oil lamps and in
arranging combining and mounting them in order to form chandeliers. And in
order that my Invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into
practice I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereto annexed. a in ench
Figure is a reservoir for holding a supply of paraffin or other oil or spirit. The
reservoir & may be supported and be capable of adjustment upon a suitable pillar
or support b to stand upon a table or elsewhere as required as represented by
Figure 1 or it may be supported by a bracket against a wall as represented by
Figure 2 or be mounted upon a fixed lamp post. Or the reservoir a may be
suspended from the ceiling or other part of a room or building to serve as an
oil lamp chandelier as represented by Figure 3 the height or position of the
reservoirs and burners being capable of adjustment. Froin the lower part of the
reservoir a one or more horizontal tubular arms a¹ extend to any desired distance
each terminating in a vertical tube a³ corresponding in height with the upper level
of the oil or spirit in the reservoir.
On the top of the vertical tube a², the burner c of the lamp is mounted which
burner may be of the ordinary construction with a wick tube and means for
raising and lowering the wick as required for lighting and extinguishing the
lamp.
The wick passes down from the burner c and along each horizontal arm a¹ up to
the reservoir a and it is this feature which constitutes an important part of my
improvements as the continuous wick serves to feed the oil or spirit up to the
burner or burners c as long as there is any left in the reservoir a.
Several reservoirs may be mounted at different levels on the same support the
horizontal tubular arms a' with wick and burners c the arms a¹ varying in length
or distance from the reservoirs a so that several tiers of burners may be thus
arranged to form an oil or spirit lamp chandelier.
This improved lamp chandelier may be arranged with telescopic pendant fittings
to slide up and down and where a central reservoir is mounted upon a pillar its
height can be adjusted and fixed in the desired position.
The lamp cottons are placed and laid straight down in the tubular arms a¹ from
the oil reservoir a to each burner c and there is no necessity to disturb them again
the oil being sucked up freely to the burner or burners.
By my improvements time and labour is saved in trimming lamps and a much
better steadier and brighter light is obtained.
In order to prevent the wick from twisting with the burner c when the burner
is screwed on to the vertical wick tube I mount a revolving collar d, on the fixed
collar a³ of the lamp as shewn in Figure 4 which is a section of these parts greatly
enlarged, the collar d is formed with a screw socket so that when the screw in the
burner is inserted in the screw socket by turning the collar and with it the screw
socket it will draw the screw on the burner into the screw socket whilst the burner
and wick tube remain stationary thus preventing the wick from being twisted.
Any suitable burner may be used which is made with a screw corresponding in
size and thread and that of the revolving screw socket.

page_text: 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:
First. The improved arrangement and construction of oil lamps in which the
burner e is placed at a distance from the oil reservoir a and connected by a tubular
arm a¹ containing a continuous wick from the reservoir a to the burner o so as to
act substantially in the manner herein before described and represented in the
Drawings annexed.
Second. I claim the improved arrangement and construction of oil lamp
chandeliers in which the burners are connected with the oil reservoir by means of
tubular arms containing continuous wicks substantially in the manner and for the
purpose herein before described.