A burner embodying my improve-
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 6th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 6th Sept., 1887
RESERVE
[Communicated from abroad by WILLIAM STANLEY MCLEWEE, of 35, West 18th
Street, in the City and State of New York, United States of America, Merchant.1
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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 :—
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A lamp burner embodying my improve-
This invention relates to lamp-burners.
ments is provided with an annular wick tube, the inner wall of which forms a draught
flue, through the centre of which extends a tube. A current of air ascends through
this tubo and also through the space in the draught flue surrounding the tube.
Two buttons or spreaders are arranged on said tube at the upper and thereof, one
above the other. The lower of these buttons or spreaders deflects air ascending through
the space surrounding the tubofagainst the flame, while the other deflects air ascending
through the tube against the flame at a point higher up. Between the two buttons or
spreaders is a perforated cylindrical air-distributor, whereby air deflected from the
upper button or spreader is caused to impinge against the flame in fine jets.
Dated this 15th day of November 1886.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Lamp-burners.
1, 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 :-
I will describe a lamp burner embodying my improvement.
The burner is provided with an annular wick tube. The inner wall of the wick tube
forms a central draught flue. Extending centrally through the draught flue is a tube.
A current of air may ascend through this tube and also through the space in the
draught flue surrounding the tube. Two buttons or spreaders are arranged on said
tube at the upper end thereof, one above the other. The lower of these buttons or
spreaders deflects air ascending through the space surrounding the tube against the
flame, while the other deflects air ascending through the tube against the flame at a
point higher up. Between the two buttons or spreaders is a perforated cylindrical air
distributor whereby air deflected from the upper button or spreader is caused to
impinge against the flame in fine jets.
The accompanying drawing is a vertical section of a lamp embodying my
improvement.
A designates an oil reservoir or fount of cylindric form made of sheet metal or other
suitable material. It is erected upon feet a between which are spaces through which
air may pass. In the centre of this reservoir is a draft tube B. Air passing between
the feet a may enter this tube B through its open lower end and pass upwards through
the same.
The tube B forms the inner wall of the wick tube. The outer wall C of the wick
tube is fastened to the upper part of the reservoir A, is circular in form and concentric
with the inner wall B. "It rises above the reservoir to the same height as the inner
wall B but does not extend but a short distance into the reservoir. The wick tube is
of course annular in form.
The wick D is cylindrical. It extends down into the reservoir and receives oil
therefrom. A feeding wick E of cylindrical form is hung from the lower end of the
outer wall of the wick tube and closely hugs the wick D conveying oil to the latter.
The wick D has affixed to it by spurs or like means a carrier G consisting of a tube
of sheet metal having at the lower end la collar 9 provided with a rack or shank studded
with rows of perforations. A shaft H journalled in the reservoir is provided with a
star wheel that engages with the rack or shank affording provision for adjusting the
wick D.
Above the reservoir is a perforated air distributor I, which preferably will be made
of sheet metal. It is surmounted by a sheet metal deflector J, that surrounds the upper
part of the wick tube and directs air to the outside of a flame emanating therefrom. On
the outside of this deflectoris a plate K serving to support a chimney partially represented
at L, a globe partially shown at M, or a shade holder partially represented at N.

page_text: O designates a tube made of sheet metal or other suitable material arranged con-
centrically within the tube B and having an open lower end. It is supported by
spiders S affixed to the tube B.
At the upper end of the tube O, buttons or spreaders P' P' are arranged. They are
made of thin metal or other suitable material and fastened together. The shank or
stem from which they extend is tubular and open at the bottom.
It fits in the upper
end of the tube O and is provided with a head or shoulders which rests on the upper
extremity of the tube O.
Air passing up the tube B, outside the tube O, is deflected by the lower spreader Pi
outwardly against the flame. Air passing up through the tube O, is deflected
outwardly by the upper spreader P against the flame higher up. It will be seen,
therefore, that two independent streams of air are deflected against the inner surface
of the flame.
A cylindric shell Q of perforated sheet metal is arranged between the two spreaders.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what mannor the same is to be performed as communicated to me by my foreign
correspondent I declare that what I claim is:
In a lamp burner the combination with 'an annular wick tube, of two spreaders,
two tubes through which air passes to the under sides of the spreaders, and a
cylindrical perforated shell between the spreaders, substantially as specified.
Dotal this 6th do of A1007
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.