An Improved Lighting or Igniting Device for Miners', Cycle, and other analogous Lamps.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1896
[Communicated from abroad by WILHELM SEIPPEL, of Bochum, Westfalen, in-
the Empire of Germany, Manufacturer.]
An Improved Lighting or Igniting Device for Miners', Cycle, and
other analogous Lamps.
I, ANTON FREderick RichtER of 16 Lombard Street in the City and County
of Newcastle on Tyne, Merchant, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved lighting or igniting device for miners', cycle
and other analogous lamps and has for its object to enable a lamp to be lighted
without opening it or exposing flame to the external atmosphere surrounding the
lamp.
I will describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in
which
Figure 1 shows a plan view of the improved device and Figure 2 a vertical
sectional elevation of the same and in the following description like marks of
reference designate like parts.
Referring to the drawings a is the oil reservoir onto the screwed upper portion of
which the upper frame of the lamp is secured in the ordinary way. On the flat
upper surface of the lamp base or oil reservoir and surrounding the wick-tube 3,
I place a tray 4 to carry the improved mechanism which again is covered over or
protected from dirt by an upper plate 5; 6 is a ratchet wheel secured to a short
spindle 7 adapted to be connected with a longer spindle 8 passing up through the
oil reservoir and adapted to be turned by a finger-nut 9. The spindles 7 and 8
form practically one continuous spindle when the lamp is closed but when it is open
the tenon-joint shown dotted at 10 is useful in enabling the tray 4 with the short
spindle 7 to be lifted up for filling the reservoir, cleaning or other purposes.
When
the ratchet is rotated by the finger-nut 9 it gears as shown with a tooth il on
hammer 12 hinged at 13 and raises the hammer which when released by the ratchet
is forced back again by a spring 14. On a pin or spindle 15 is wound a coil of
strong paper tape 16 or equivalent material studded at equal short intervals with
phosphorus tips or "amorces" 17: one end of this tape is carried as shown round
the guide-piece 18 and over the anvil 20 to the pin or spindle 21 above the ratchet
to which it is secured in any convenient manner 21 being an extension of spindle 7
aforesaid.
Behind the anvil and between it and the wick is an inclined plate 22 as
shown.
Suppose now that a lamp has become extinguished or requires to be lighted,
the operator turns finger-nut 9 which turns the spindle and ratchet and causes the
hammer to strike one of the phosphorus tips and ignite it at the same time drawing
the tape 16 sufficiently forward to bring another or the next phosphorus cap under
the anvil. The flash of the ignition is directed up plate 22 and ignites the wick W
and the mechanism is still in position and order for repeating the operation and as
the tape is unwound off pin 15 it is synchronously wound round spindle or pin 21.
In the improved construction described the igniting apparatus surrounds the wick.
without surmounting it or obstructing the light or causing a shadow in any way and
this is a very important improvement as compared with devices hitherto invented.
and intended for the same purpose.

page_text: The invention is obviously applicable to cycle and other ordinary lamps of
similar construction and in which a wick retaining any oil capable of being ignited
as hereinabove described is used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved lighting or igniting device for miners' and other analogous
lamps consisting in the combination of a ratchet wheel adapted to operate a
striking hammer for the purpose of igniting a phosphorus tip or amorce the
operation of the ratchet simultaneously unwinding a tape off one pin, drawing an
amorce thereon over an anvil and winding the spent tape onto ancther pin the
several parts for performing the several operations being arranged, combined or
adapted to work substantially as herein set forth.
2. The improved lighting or igniting device for miners' and other analogous
lamps consisting in the combination of a ratchet wheel adapted to operate a
striking hammer for the purpose of igniting a phosphorous tip or amorce the
operation of the ratchet simultaneously unwinding a tape off one pin, drawing an
amorce thereon over an anvil, directing by means of a sloping plate the flash to the
wick and winding the spent tape onto another pin the several parts for performing
the several operations being arranged, combined or adapted to work substantially
as herein set forth.
3. The improved lighting or igniting device for miners' cycle and other
analogous lamps consisting of the general arrangement or combination of parts all
arranged combined or adapted to operate substantially as and for the purposes
herein described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 19th day of December 1895.
A. CRAWHALL CHAPMAN,
3 St. Nicholas Buildings, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Patent Agent.