IMPROVEMENTS IN DOMESTIC NIGHT LAMPS
Year: 1885

page_text: I JAMES BANNEHR of 179 Aldersgate Street in the City of London, Inventor, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN DOMESTIC NIGHT
LAMPS to be as follows:-
The objects of this invention are to provide an economical and equable night
light that will not require adjustment after being kindled, and to make it available
for warming diet in the night nursery and the invalids room. To accomplish this,
instead of having the fame near or adjacent to the reservoir containing the oil,
whereby the oil is unduly volatilized, I place the flame, at a considerable distance
from the reservoir, by increasing the length of the tube containing the wick to the
extent of two or three inches beyond what has been heretofore done in small night
lamps. And for making such night light available for the before mentioned
purpose I place it on a base surrounded by supports carrying a platform in the
centre of which is an opening to allow the heat of the flame to warm the contents
of vessels placed thereon.

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I JAMES BANNEHR, of 179 Aldersgate Street, in the City of London, Inventor
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 objects of this invention are to provide an economical and equable night
light that will not require adjustment after being kindled and to make it available
for warming food in the night nursery and the invalid's room. To accomplish this,
instead of having the flame near or adjacent to the reservoir containing the oil;
whereby the oil is unduly volatilized, I place the flame at a considerable distance
from the reservoir by increasing the length of the tube containing the wick to
the extent of two or three inches beyond what has been heretofore done in small
night lamps. And for making such night light available for the before mentioned
purpose I place it on a base surrounded by supports carrying a platform in the
centre of which is an opening to allow the heat of the flame to warm the contents
of vessels placed thereon.
Figure 1 of the annexed drawings is an elevation, Figure 2 a vertical section
and Figure 3 a plan of a domestic night lamp constructed according to my
a is the reservoir
invention; these figures being drawn to about half scale.
made preferably of glass. 6 is a tube or long neck projecting from the top of the
reservoir a and formed in a piece therewith; this tube b is shown as closed by a
cape from which is carried up a metal tube d forming a continuation of the tube b;
the tubes b and d together constitute the wick tube the top of the tube d forming
the burner. It will be seen that owing to the length of the tube b, d, the flame or
burner is at such a distance from the reservoir that the oil in the reservoir is not
unduly volatilized by the heat as is the case in domestic night lamps of the
ordinary construction in which the flame is near to the oil reservoir.
lamp chimney.
e is the
In order to make domestic night lamps available for warming food I combine
there with a base f on which the lamp stands the said base having standards g, g
rising therefrom to support at their upper end a platform at a suitable height
above the lamp chimney e. This platform h is for the purpose of holding a food
vessel and is open in the centre to allow the heat that escapes from the top of the
chimney to impinge upon the bottom of the vessel. To prevent loss of heat by
radiation at the sides of the chimney e I use, in combination with the stand con-
sisting of the base f, standards g, g and platform h, an outer chimney or tube i
which conducts the heat radiated at the sides of the chimney e to the bottom of
the vessel on the platform. This outer chimney or tube i is not necessary when
the lamp is not required for warming food. The chimney e fits into a ring or
gallery and the chimney i into a ring or gallery m; these two galleries are
shown as held by bent spurs n, n radiating from the tube d.
The base f may either be of the dished or concave form shown or convex or flat.
When of dished form I prefer to cut away a portion of the side as seen at k so as
to allow of the easy introduction and removal of the lamp.

page_text: 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
1. In a domestic night lamp, the elongated or long tube b, d, as and for the
purpose set forth.
2. The combination with a domestic night lamp of a food-vessel-stand or support
constructed substantially as herein before described.
3. The combination with a domestic night lamp and with a food-vessel-stand or
support, as referred to in claim 2, of a chimney or tube outside the lamp chimney
as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
1000
J. C. MEWBURN,
169, Fleet Street, London,
Agent.