Improvements in Oil Lamps and Stoves.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 13th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 16th May, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Oil Lamps and Stoves.
I, EDMUND FORD HULSE of 203 Padgate Lane, Warrington in the County of
Lancaster, Lamp Manufacturer and Metal Worker, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to oil lamps and stoves and its object is to provide a
simple and efficient means for raising the gallery and chimney so as to leave the
wick or wicks easily accessible for lighting and other purposes.
In carrying this invention into effect I mount upon the upper end of the wick
tube or upon each wick tube a sliding ferrule, band, ring or the like furnished
with extensions or arms secured to the gallery. Pivoted upon a convenient part
of the lamp is a lever, one end of which is adapted to engage with the ferrule
or ferrules and the other end of which projects outside the lamp. By depressing
the outer end of the lever the inner end is raised and with it the sliding band
or bands and the connected gallery.
Dated this 10th IT. AD 1005
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
I, EDMUND FORD HULSE of 203 Padgate Lane, Warrington in the County of
Lancaster, Lamp Manufacturer and Metal Worker, 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 :-
This invention relates to oil lamps and stoves and its object is to provide a
simple and efficient means for raising the gallery and chimney so as to leave the
wick or wicks easily accessible for lighting and other purposes.
In carrying this invention into effect I mount upon the upper end of the wick
tube or upou each wick tube a sliding ferrule, band, ring or the like furnished with
extensions or arms secured to the gallery. Pivoted upon a convenient part of the
lamp is a lever, one end of which is adapted to engage with the ferrule or the like
and the other end of which projects outside the lamp. By depressing the outer
end of the lever the inner end is raised and with it the sliding bands or band and
the connected gallery.
The accompanying drawings illustrate in what manner my invention may be
carried into effect. Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts where they
occur in the different figures.
Figures 1 and 2 shew in sectional elevation and plan respectively the application
of my improvements to a duplex lamp. A, A, are the wick tubes, each of which
is provided with a sliding band, ferrule, or the like B, the two bands being
connected together by a cross pin C. Pivoted upon a fixed part of the lamp is the
lever D the inner end of which is slotted to engage with the cross pin C. The
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page_text: sliding bands are connected to the dome E and the gallery F of the lamp,
preferably by means of wires G. It is obvious that when the outer end of the
lever is depressed the inner end is raised, carrying with it the sliding bands, and
thus lifting the dome and gallery so as to allow free access to the wicks.
A modified form of my improved device is illustrated in elevation and plan
respectively by Figures 3 and 4. The two wick tubes A A are coutained within
and surrounded by a single sliding band B which is connected by the wires G to
the dome and gallery. The lifting lever D is forked to pass outside the wick
tubes and engage with the sliding band. The inner ends of the lever may as
before be slotted to engage with pins fixed upon the sides of the band or they may,
as shewn, carry pins or projections C' which engage with slots formed in the
sliding band. Similarly, in the device illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, the end of
the lever may be provided with pins or projections and the bands be slotted.
In lieu of the lever other equivalent means may be employed for lifting the
sliding bands, such for example as a chain or cord passing over a pulley or pulleys.
The sliding band may be similarly applied to a single flat wick lamp or to a hollow
circular wick lamp.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. In an oil lamp or stove, the combination with the wick tube or tubes of a
sliding band or bands connected to the dome and gallery, constructed arranged
and operated substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and as
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. A lifting device for the dome and gallery of oil lamps and stoves, constructed
arranged and operated substantially as and for the purpose herein before described
and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Deted this 11th day of Al A D 1906
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.