AN IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN LIGHTING GAS BURNERS, LAMPS, AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Marino Casella, of Hatton Garden, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN LIGHTING GAS BURNERS, LAMPS, AND OTHER
ARTICLES."
Sealed the 12th April 1870, and dated the 13th October 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Marino Casella
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 13th October 1869.
I, LOUIS MARINO CASELLA, of Hatton Garden, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN LIGHTING GAS BURNERS, LAMPS,
AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to provide a convenient and cheap
substitute for wax tapers, paper spills, and matches, to the use of which
in the lighting of gas burners, lamps, and other articles there are
several objections; for example, the flame of wax, paper, or wood
blackens the globe of the lamp if it come in contact therewith as is

page_text: often the case, while grease falls from wax tapers, and portions of
partially burnt paper and wood fall from paper spills and matches,
besides a wax taper, spill, or match does not burn a sufficient length of
time to enable a person without using several of them to light many
lamps or lamps in different apartments. Now by my apparatus no
smoke is produced to blacken the globes, there is no chance of grease
or unconsumed or partially consumed material falling, and any number
of lamps or burners in any number of apartments can be lighted without
the apparatus requiring to be replenished or relighted.
My apparatus consists of a reservoir for spirits of wine of suitable
capacity, and of such shape as to stand on a table or other surface; the
top of the reservoir is provided with an aperture through which it is
filled with the spirits; a vertical tube or nipple from 2 to 6 inches or
more in length screws or fits into this aperture, and a wick is passed
through the tube so as to dip into the spirits. The spirits rise by
capillary attraction to the top of the wick, which is lighted when the
apparatus is required for use. The apparatus is provided with a thimble
or cap to be placed on the top of the tube to extinguish the light
and to prevent evaporation of the spirit when the apparatus is not
in use.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Louis Marino Casella in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th April 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
MARINO CASELLA, of Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Iler
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteen day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Louis Marino Casella, Her special licence
that I, the said Louis Marino Casella, executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis Marino Casella, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during

page_text: the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN LIGHTING GAS BURNERS, LAMPS, AND
OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Louis Marino Casella, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Marino Casella, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
accompanying Drawings, that is to say :-
The object of my Invention is to provide a convenient and chcap
substitute for wax tapers, paper spills, and matches, to the use of which
in the lighting of gas burners, lamps, and other articles there are
several objections; for example, the flame of wax, paper, or wood
blackens the globe of a lamp if it come in contact therewith as is
often the case, while grense falls from wax tapers, and portions of
partially burnt paper and wood fall from paper spills and matches,
besides a spill or match does not burn a sufficient length of time to
enable a person without using several of them to light many lamps or
lamps in different apartments. Now by my apparatus no smoke is
produced to blacken the globes, there is no chance of grease or
unconsumed or partially consumed material falling, and any number
of lamps or burners in any number of apartments can be lighted without
the apparatus requiring to be replenished or relighted.
My apparatus is represented in clevation in Figuro 1, in vertical
section in Figure 2, and in plan in Figure 3 of the annexed Drawings.
It consists of a reservoir a for spirits of wine of suitable capacity, and of
such shape as to stand on a table or other surface; the top of the reservoir
is provided with an aperture & through which it is filled with the spirits;
a vertical tube or nipple c from two to six inches or more in length
screws or fits into this aperture, and a wick d is passed through the tube c

page_text: so as to dip into the spirits. The spirits rise by capillary attraction to the
top of the wick, which is lighted when the apparatus is required for use.
The apparatus is provided with a thimble or cape to be placed on the
top of the tube c in order to extinguish the light and to prevent
evaporation of the spirit when the apparatus is not in use; tho thimble e 5
is connected to the apparatus by a chain f.
Figure 4 represents a modified and more ornamental form of the
apparatus.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the 1
improved apparatus herein-before described and represented in the
accompanying Drawings to be employed in lighting gas burners, lamps,
and other articles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Marino Casella, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of April One
thousand eight hundred and seventy.
LOUIS MARINO CASELLA. (L.S.)