Improved Means for Facilitating the Igniting and Extinguishing of Lamps.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 15th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by HENRY ALBERT CHAPIN, of No. 303, West Twelfth
Street, in the City and State of New York, United States of America,
Inventor.]
Improved Means for Facilitating the Igniting and Extinguishing
of Lamps.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co. Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this improvement is to provide means whereby a lamp or gas
burner or analogous article may be lighted and the light extinguished without
removing the globe or chimney ordinarily employed with such article.
The improvement consists in the combination with a burner of a tube arranged so
that at one end it is in proximity to the tip of the burner tube, and the other end
accessible from outside the burner, said tube being provided internally with a
scratcher so that a match may be inserted through it toward the burner tip and
will be ignited before the forward end reaches the burner tip. If one blows through
this tube, the air set in motion will be directed against the flame and will serve
to extinguish the flame.
It is advantageous to arrange the scratcher at an angle so that the end of the
scratcher which is the nearer to the burner tip will extend toward the line or plane
of the opposite portion of the tube. Where so arranged the scratcher will intrude
itself in the way of the igniting end of a match passed through the tube, and the
end of the match will consequently necessarily press against the scratcher. This
construction will insure the ignition of the match.
Preferably there will be combined with the scratcher a spring located opposite
to the scratcher. This spring will serve to hold the igniting end of a match against
the scratcher with a yielding pressure so as to effect the ignition of the match by
its passage through the tube. The spring may be made separately from the tube
and secured thereon or it may be a part of the tube itself. In the latter case the
end of the tube which is the nearer to the burner tip will be slotted or cut away
at the opposite sides and the top extended to form a spring. The bottom will
usually have the scratcher upon it. This part may also be made resilient or in the.
form of a spring.
C T
1000
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Facilitating the Igniting and Extinguishing
of Lamps.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex, 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 object of my improvement is to provide means whereby the wick of a lamp,
or analagous article, may be lighted and such light extinguished, without removing
the globe or chimney of the lamp or analagous article.

page_text: I will describe a lamp burner embodying my improvement and then point out
the novel features in claims.
In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a central vertical section of a lamp
burner having my invention applied thereto. Figure 2 is a section of igniting
apparatus embodying my improvement. Similar letters of reference designate
corresponding parts in both figures.
A designates the body of the lamp burner.
It has at the lower end a cylindric boss a, which can fit into the opening of the
reservoir of a lamp or lantern. B designates the wick tube. D designates the air
distributor, which is perforated in the usual manner. E designates the slotted cone or
deflector. All these parts may be made of ordinary construction and of any
suitable metal.
The air distributor D is provided at one side of the wick tube with a rectangular
opening whereby provision is afforded for the insertion of a tube, G, here shown as of
rectangular shape. This tube may be made of sheet metal. Through it a match may
be introduced for the purpose of lighting the wick of the burner. This tube is
extended in an oblique direction through the said opening in the air distributor and
at right angles to the width of the wick tube, until it is but a short distance from
the top of the wick tube. It may be rigidly secured in position by solder or any
other suitable means. The portion of the tube G, which is outside of the air
distributor, may be of any desired length and extends downwardly in an oblique
direction.
In my improvement shown clearly in Figure 2, the bottom wall of the tube extends
for a short distance beyond the other walls of the tube, at the end nearest the wick
tube, and is bent upwardly at an incline so that its end is on a plane with the upper
wall of the tube. This upwardly bent portion is provided on its inner side with a
roughened surface to form a scratcher or, if desired, any suitable scratching material,
such, for instance, as sand paper, may be rigidly secured thereto. The upper and
side walls of the tube are rigid as is also the bottom wall. The bent portion,
however, may or may not be rigid, as desired. When a match is introduced into this
form of tube it comes in contact with the scratcher of this upwardly bent portion
and its end which is provided with igniting material becomes ignited by reason of
friction. The lighted match is then extended to the wick as before described. It
will be observed that the prolonged or upwardly turned portion within the burner will
not permit a match to pass beyond its end or over it into the deflector. Owing to
this, the charred portion of the match is not scraped or pulled off, when the match is
withdrawn, and hence the danger of filling the openings in the distributor D, and
thereby causing the lamp to smoke by cutting off the supply of air necessary for
combustion is obviated.
When the tube is not in use, a cap of metal of any suitable size or shape to fit the.
end of the tube through which the match is inserted, may be used as a cover for the
saine to prevent the entrance of air.
By removing the cap or cover of the tube G, and blowing through the tube,
the light of a wick may be readily extinguished.
To facilitate the extinguishing of the flame of a lamp which is not easy of access,
the tube G, may have at its outer end a telescopic section which may be secured thereto
or be removable therefrom, as desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign Correspondent I declare that what I claim is :
1. The combination with a lamp or analagous article, of a tube closed at all sides,
one portion being cut away and the opposite portion prolonged and inclined toward
the plane of the portion which is cut away, substantially as specified.

page_text: 2. The combination with a lamp burner, or analagous article, of a tube closed at all
sides, and extended through the shell of the burner at right angles to the width of
the wick tube, substantially as specified.
Dated this 15th day of November 1889.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.