A NEW LAMP FOR THE PURPOSE OF LIGHTING STREETS, HOUSES, HALLS, AND SHOPS, AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1793

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
COLLINSON, of Lombard Street, in the City of London, Tinplate Worker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third did, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eighteenth day of March last past, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Collinson, His especial licence, that I, the said Edward Collin-
son, should and might, during the term of years therein expressed, make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and also in all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my
Invention of "A NEW LAMP FOR THE PURPOSE OF LIGHTING STREETS, HOUSES,
HALLS, AND SHOPS, AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Edward Collinson, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto
had) more fully appears.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Collinson, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described and
ascertained in manner following, and by the Plan hereunto annexed (that is
to say) :-
Figure 1 represents a globular glass lamp, made of a proper thickness round
the belly or middle part, to magnify the light, and give it a brilliancy. It may
be either cut or plain.

page_text: Figure 2 represents a metal reflector, with a hole in the top equal to that
in the glass to which it is fixed, to admit the pan which holds the oil and
cotton. It also shews the manner of fixing the lamp to the iron, by three
bolts and keys, as well as to those irons now in use.
Figure 3 represents a round pan to hold the oil, in the inside of which is
fixed a flat tube or burner for the cotton. Wires are fixed to the pan to keep
it suspended a proper distance from the bottom of the glass.
Figure 4 represents an oval pan, with a tubo; and wires in the same manner
as Figure Three.
Figure 5 represents an oval pan, with two tubes or burners for cotton and
wires, in the same manner as Figures Three and Four.
Figure 6 represents an oblong pan, with three flat tubes or burners for
cotton, in the same manner as Figures Three, Four, and Five.
Figure 7 represents a metal refloctor without hooks, applicable to irons made
for this Invention.
Figure 8 represents the several parts of the Invention put together. a, a, a,
the magnifying globular glass; b, b, b, the metal reflector fixed over it; c, c, c,
a rim fixed on the top of the reflector, over which a lamphead, such as are in
common use, may be put; d, the opening in the rim to admit the iron; e, e, e,
the hooks for hanging the lamp to irons now in use; f, the pan for oil; g, the
tube or burner for cotton; h, h, the wires by which the pan is suspendod in
the glass; i, i, the magnified frame.
Figure 9 represents a round magnifying glass, made in the same manner as
Figure One, only with this difference, that it has a hole in the bottom to be used
within doors, with a reflector over it. This lamp produces a strong, useful,
and steady light, which communicates itself all around to a considerable dis-
tance, and also descends downwards, so as to illuminate a whole flight of stairs
or stops, or any large doorway directly under it. The reflector may be either
painted or used without, as suits the fancy. In the inside of the glass globe
is hung a tin pan, which may be made either round, oblong, oval, or square,
with one or more burners or tubes, to hold the cotton, and which tubes may be
made either flat or round or in other shape, and fixed in the inside of the tin
pan, either sloping or upright.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Collinson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of April, in the year of our a
Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and in the
thirty-third year of the reign of King George the Third.
EDWARD COLLINSON. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Seventeenth day of April,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Edward Collinson came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor
of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Seventeenth day of April, in the year above written.