RIP OF BURNER
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1887
Complete Left, 23rd Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 13th Apr., 1388
EDWARD HORTON 239 Bradford Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Lamp Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
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DESCRIPTION OF BURNER.
By introduceing air tube A into the construction of the burner, between the wick
case tubes B the light is thereby increased and purified. The number of wick case
tubes can be increased round the air tube A so that any number of lights may be used
in one burner, each wick producing a separate flat light. But the shape of the air
tube A would have to be altered to suit the number of lights required, because the
wick case tubes in the burner fit close up to the air tube A. Thus a burner with
three wick case tubes in it, the air tube would have three sides to correspond, and
every extra wick case tube that is added, the air tube would require another side to
correspond with it. C. is simply a screw to hold the burner in its right position on
the oil vessel.
EDWARD HORTON.

page_text: I, EDWARD HORTON of Stratford Works, Bradford Street Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, 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 :-
The said invention, consists of the improvement, or improvements, as hereinafter
described, in hydro carbon oil lamps, with flat wicks; and consists first, in arranging
between flat wick cases, or wick tubes, an upwardly directed air passage, whose upper
and open end, is on a level with the tops of the said wick cases, and wicks; while the
lower end, which is bell mouthed, preferably passes through the oil container, and is
open to the atmosphere.
The wick cases, and the winding wicks, disposed within them, as in a duplex lamp
come opposite the flame slits in the cone, of the burner part, whilst the upper open
end of the air passage, which is flat in cross section, and preferably of about the width
of the wick cases, between which, the said air passage comes, and with its upper open
end coming opposite the unpierced middle part of the cone.
My invention consists secondly, in providing supplementary suction wicks, hung
on the insides, or on the outsides, of the respective winding wicks.
Thirdly, in placing within the foot of the burner part, and around the depending
inside neck of the mount part, a disc or plug of cork, so as to ensure a perfect joint,
and thereby preventing accidental spilling of the oil, should a lamp get inadvertently
knocked over, or broken.
Figure 1 represents in longitudinal vertical section, a duplex flat wick lamp,
provided with improvements made according to my invention. Figure 2 represents
partly in elevation, and partly in vertical section, the burner portion of the said lamp,
but with the section and elevation taken at right angles to figure 1. Figure 3 is a
transverse vertical section, on the dotted lines A B figure 1, showing the position of
the air passage, with respect to the wick casings, or wick tubes; while figure 4
represents a like cross section, as in figure 3. Figure 5 is a section of the cap, at the
mouth entrance of the oil container, and figure 6 represents a cork packing piece,
placed within the foot of the body of the burner part; this packing piece, completely
surrounds the wick tubes, and the walls of the centrally disposed air passage.
Figure 7 represents a modification of the foot of the body of the burner part,
showing the wick cases at an angle, to admit of the said cases, and flat tube con-
stituting the air passage, passing through independent holes, in the cork packing or
plug, as seen at figure 8.

page_text: Figure 9 represents my invention, applied to the lamp of a cooking stove.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures of
the drawings.
a is the body of the burner of a lamp, and bare wick tubes, or wick cases separated
from each other, and passing vertically through the body of the said burner part, with
their lower ends, extending below the foot or pummel a², which depends into the oil
container e, of the lamp, while their upper ends are presented to within a short
distance of the crown of the cone part a³; and between these said wick cases or wick
tubes, is an upwardly directed air passage d, extending from a little above the tops of
the said wick cases, and wicks, and with the lower part d², which is preferably bell or
trumpet mouthed, extending through the bottom of the oil container, and open to the
atmosphere so that air for supplying combustion to the burner, is fed through this
centrally disposed air passage d, and through the side piercings, in the burner
body.
The air passage d, is a little broader than the wick casings, as will be best seen in
the side elevation figure 2, and the sectional plans figures 3 and 4.
By providing lamps, or the burners of lamps, with upwardly directed air passages
as represented, the illuminating power of a lamp, is greatly enhanced.
When the lamp is in use, the air drawn up the air passage d, d², is delivered from
the open top, and strikes the top inside part of the crown of the cone part, thereby
feeding the flames, passing through the flame slits, with oxygen, at the points where
the flames are formed.
The foot a² of the body part of the burner, which fits into the collar of the .
mount c³, of the oil container c, is provided with a plug or packing of cork e, where-
through the wick cases b, b, and the tube of the central air passage d, passes. This
packing or plug, prevents the possibility of oil or vapour, passing into the burner
part of the lamp, should the lamp inadvertently get knocked over.
The inside of the collar c², of the mount c, is fitted with a cork lining e.
fare the winding wicks, which pass through the wick cases, and depend into
the oil container, and are suction wicks, hung on the outside of the winding
wicks, by which means, capillary attraction of the oil is greatly increased, and
thereby a larger amount of oil admits of being fed to the burner.
The suction wicks may be placed inside the winder wicks, instead of on their
outsides, as represented.
The air passage d, instead of passing both through the oil container, and body
of burner, it may only pass through the latter; that is to say, the air passage
proceeds upwards from the foot or pummel part of the burner, and with its lower
end, open to the atmosphere, through a side passage or hole made in the body of the
said burner part.
The lower part of the tube of the air passage, is directed outwardly, in the same
plane, in which the wick casings are disposed.
Although I have described an air passage, in connection with two flat wicks, yet I
wish it to be understood, that the said air passage, may be employed in connection
with three or more flat wicks, or flat wick casings.
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. Providing flat wick lamp burners, or lamps, with an upwardly directed air
passage, or upwardly directed air passages, disposed parallel to, and between the
wick casings, or wicks of a lamp, and with the top open end, or ends of the said
passage, or passages, presented to near the underside of the cone of the burner part,
whilst its lower end, which passes through the oil container, is open to the atmosphere,
substantially as, and for the purpose, as herein described and set forth.
Secondly. In combination with a flat wicked duplex lamp burner, and lamp, of the
kind as herein described, of a centrally disposed air passage d, bell mouthed at its
lower and open end, as described and set forth.

page_text: Thirdly. Providing flat wicked duplex lamp burners; with upwardly directed air
passages, passing between the lamp casings, and terminating at its lower end, through
an opening, or openings, in the sides of the body of the said burner part, as
described.
Fourthly. Employing supplementary wicks, called "suction wicks," upon the
outsides, or upon the insides of winder wicks, for the purpose, substantially as
described and set forth.