A New or Improved Device for Facilitating the Trimming, Lighting, and Extinguishing of Cycle and other Lamps.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMPLETE DIECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Device for Facilitating the Trimming, Lighting,
and Extinguishing of Cycle and other Lamps.
I, ALFRED LEECH, of 48, Eglington Road, Bow, London, E. Gentleman,
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 :—
My invention relates to a new or improved device for facilitating the trimming,
lighting, and extinguishing of cycle and other lamps, and has for its object to
provide means whereby the wick can be easily cleaned and the lamp lighted or
extinguished without it being necessary to open the door of the said lamp.
According to my invention, I fix to the wick-holder of the lamp a light metal
frame consisting of two parallel sides and two end pieces, each end piece being
furnished centrally with a recess within one of which is pivoted two bars forming a
clip, the said bars being placed around the wick-holder, one on either side, and the
ends drawn together and inserted in the recess of the other end piece. Upon this
frame is mounted a carrier sliding on the two longitudinal side pieces thereof, and
furnished with a knife or cutting edge, so that by pushing the carrier backwards
and forwards by means of a rod and handle, passing through a hole formed in the
side of the lamp for that purpose, the wick can be cleaned and trimmed, and the
said carrier being furnished with a curved projection, serrated or roughened, and
against which the match comes into contact when passed through a hole also
formed in one of the sides of the lamp, the said match will be ignited thereby
enabling the wick to be lighted without opening the door of the lamp.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood, I will now proceed to
describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a side view of the oil reservoir of a cycle lamp, fitted with my improved
device, Fig. 2 is a plan of same.
Fig. 3 is an end view and Fig. 4 is a side view of a cycle lamp with the device
complete,
Fig. 5 is a side view of the rod.
Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the figures.
My new or improved device consists of a light metal frame formed of two
parallel sides a a¹ and two ends beach end being furnished with a recess r.
Within the recess r are pivoted the two bars cc forming the clip, the said bars
being so shaped as to closely embrace the wick-holder, the ends being drawn
together and inserted within the recess r¹.. The carrier fslides upon the longitudinal
sides a a¹ and is furnished with a knife or cutting edge d, a rod e furnished with a
knob or handle is permanently attached to the side of the carrier f (as shown in
dotted lines in Fig. 2) and passes through the hole or perforation p so that the
carrier f can be drawn backwards and forwards along the frame for the purpose of
trimming the lamp. Instead of the rod being permanently fixed to the carrier, it
could be made separately and one end bent down so as to form a hook k (Fig. 5)
the said rod being passed through the hole or perforation p in the side of the lamp
and engaging with a hole or perforation formed in any convenient part of the
carrier when the lamp is required to be trimmed.
The carrier is further provided with a curved projection g which is serrated or
roughened and which after trimming the wick is close against the side of the lamp,
so that by inserting a match through the hole or perforation p' formed in that side
of the lamp it is rubbed against the roughened or serrated surface and ignited
thereby enabling the lamp to be lighted. In order to extinguish the lamp it is only

page_text: necessary to draw the carrier with the knife edge d across the wick when the
object will be immediately effected.
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 :-
The new or improved device for facilitating the trimming, lighting and
extinguishing of cycle, and other lamps, arranged and constructed substantially as
herein described and shown and for the purpose set forth.
Dated the 9th day of December 1893.
F. G. CASSELL,
Of Cassell & Co.,
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.