An Improved Method of Lighting and Extinguishing Lamps, applicable to all Enclosed Wicks and Burners wherecon.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 14th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Lighting and Extinguishing Lamps,
applicable to all Enclosed Wicks and Burners where it is:
Inconvenient to Expose the same to the Free Action of the
Atmosphere.
ALBERT EDWARD CHARTER 9 Fitchetts Court Noble Street London E.C..
Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To effect these objects I introduce through the enclosing case of the lamp from
any convenient point a tube which carries a supply of specially prepared match or
matches, the said match or matches being moved towards the wick or burner by
mechanism worked either by screw, lever, or sliding rod, ending in a suitable disc
or handle.
From another point of the enclosing case of the lamp at a suitable angle to
aforesaid tube, I introduce another tube carrying an arm ending in a serrated
portion this arm being provided with a spring which gives it a quick releasing
action.
The working of the apparatus is as follows:-A supply of match or matches.
being loaded into the tube that carries them and one being worked to the end of
the tube, the serrated arm is either pressed inwards or pulled outwards sharply, the
resultant friction ignites the match and the flame spreading to the wick or burner
causes the desired lighting. To extinguish the flame the tube carrying the serrated
arm being hollow, all that is necessary is to blow sharply through this tube. In the
case of miners' lamps the outward openings of the tubes must be protected with
fine wire gauze.
Dated this 14th day of April 1893.
ALBERT EDWARD CHARTER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Lighting and Extinguishing Lamps,
applicable to all Enclosed Wicks and Burners where it is
Inconvenient to Expose the same to the Free Action of the
Atmosphere.
ALBERT EDWARD CHARTER 9 Fitchetts Court Noble Street London E.C.
Agent 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 :-
An attachment for lamps of various kinds but principally for cycle, carriage
miners' or similar lamps by which the act of lighting or extinguishing may be
performed without opening the lamp or any part thereof, the lighting being
performed in the following manner. A small milled head or similar contrivance
projects from the side of the containing case of the lamp, and is pressed or turned
with more or less rapidity when the lamp is required to be lighted.
To effect this there is a reservoir containing one or more matches contrived in
the oil-well or in any part thereof, such reservoir being by preference in a vertical
position.
The milled head which which is turned in the act of lighting the lamp, is fixed
on a shaft which shaft may be hollow for the purpose of blowing down from the
outside when required to extinguish the lamp, and having at its other end a serrated

page_text: knob, disc or friction head for the purpose of rubbing against the exposed head of
the match. The action may be that of rapidly forcing the shaft inwards, or it may
be quickly revolved pressing at the same time in a plane at right angles or nearly
so to the said match."
The beforementioned shaft is carried in a small tube which tube is soldered or
otherwise fixed into a convenient position in the case of the lamp, and contains a
spiral spring so placed as to withdraw the shaft immediately the match has been
struck, from out of the reach of the flame of the lamp.
The reservoir if arranged to contain a single match is simply a small tube
soldered into the top of the oil-well in a convenient position near the burner
preferably in an upright position and so made that a match folded in two can be
inserted in the tube with its head about on a level with the wick. When the
reservoir is made to contain more than one match I make a hole through the
burner and through the bottom of the oil-well, into which I place a spiral and a
shaft for the purpose of raising the matches to the top opening where they are met
in the act of ignition by the friction head, disc, knob &c.
DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES.
Fig. I is a sketch of the lamp-lighting appliance of the single match form
attached to and fixed on the outer casing of an ordinary cycle lamp. The friction
head is shown away from the head of the match marked H.
Fig. II is a sketch of the appliance in which A is the milled head for turning
or striking, B is the hollow shaft that carries the friction head, C the friction head
for striking the match. D the small spiral spring for keeping the shaft and the
striking part C out and away from the head of the match, E the outer cover or
case of the appliance which fits into the frame of the lamp.
Fig. III the match reservoir when two or more matches are used. F spiral
groove cut in outer cover in which the shaft K turns so as to force the head of the
match up in such a position as to come in contact with the friction head C. L is
the oil-well pierced, through which the match reservoir is fixed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare what I
claim is:
1. In a cyclists, miners' carriage or other lamps a means whereby one or more
matches may be ignited without opening the outer case of such lamp or any part
thereof, substantially as herein described and set forth.
2. In a cyclists, miners' carriage or other lamp, a reservoir made in any part of
the said lamp, but preferably in the burner and oil-well, to contain a supply of
matches with an arrangement for bringing the matches to meet the friction surface
substantially as herein described and set forth.
3. In cyclists, miners, carriage, or other lamps a reservoir for containing one or
more matches in a vertical or oblique position with or without connections with the
outside of said lamps, the match when in position being held ready to be acted on
by the friction surface as herein described and set forth.
4. In cyclists, miners carriage or other lamp a shaft running in a tube or similar
contrivance having a spring for roturning it to position and a friction surface which
may be a knob head. or rubbing plane for the purpose of igniting a match placed in
a convenient position for the same.
5. In a lamp for cyclists, miners, carriages &c. the combination of a vertical or
oblique reservoir and a tube with a shaft running through, and having a friction
surface that may be pressed on the head of the match, substantially as herein
described and set forth.
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