Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Aug., 1886.
Complete-Left, 10th May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 10th June, 1887.
I JOSEPH HINKS of Great Hampton Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Lamp Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
In those kinds of lamps for burning light or volatile oils in which the gallery or
globe holder is capable of being raised from the burner for trimming and lighting the
lamp the extinguisher requires to be withrawn from the wicks before the wicks can be
trimmed or lighted and should the extinguisher not have been withdrawn from the
wicks prior to the raising of the gallery or shade holder it is inconvenient to do it
afterwards in consequence of the hands being engaged. The object of my invention is
to obviate the inconvenience referred to and consists in so connecting the extinguisher
lever with the sliding gallery or shade holder that the raising of the said gallery for
lighting the lamp or trimming the wicks automatically operates upon the extinguisher
lever and causes the latter to uncover the wicks. For this purpose I connect the
extinguisher lever to the sliding gallery or shade holder by means of a chain
or other flexible connector the said chain or flexible cord or connector being
secured to the end of the outer arm of the extinguisher lever. When the gallery or
shade holder is in its lowered position and the outer arm of the extinguisher lever
is in its lowest position and the extinguisher over the wicks the chain or flexible
cord or connector is slackened. On lifting the sliding gallery the flexible connector
is first tightened and afterwards operates upon the extinguisher lever and lifting its
outer arm withdraws the extinguisher from the wicks. Thus the raising of the
gallery or globe holder effects the withdrawal of the extinguisher and the wicks are
ready to be trimmed or the lamp lighted.
Although I prefer to use a flexible connector as described yet an inflexible
connector may
be employed. For example a wire headed at its upper end may
be fixed to the outer arm of the extinguisher lever the said wire passing through
and working in a hole in the sliding gallery. When the sliding gallery is raised
it acts upon the head of the wire carrying the said wire with it and the latter
raises the extinguisher lever as before described with respect to a flexible connector.
The flexible or inflexible connector described also acts as a stop to the sliding
gallery or globe holder thereby rendering the stop nuts at the bottoms of the
guiding rods of the said gallery unnecessary.
1002
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Lamps for Burning Light or Volatile Oils.
I JOSEPH HINKS of Great -Hampton Street, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Lamp Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:—
In those kinds of lamps for burning light or volatile oils in which the gallery or
globe holder is capable of being raised from the burner for trimming and lighting the
lamp, the extinguisher requires to be withdrawn from the wicks before the wicks can
be trimmed or lighted and should the extinguisher not have been withdrawn from the
wicks prior to the raising of the gallery or shade holder it is inconvenient to do it
afterwards in consequence of the hands being engaged. The object of my invention is
to obviate the inconvenience referred to and consists in so connecting the extinguisher
lever with the sliding gallery or shade holder that the raising of the said gallery for
lighting the lamp or trimming the wicks automatically operates upon the extinguisher
lever and causes the latter to uncover the wicks. For this purpose I connect the
extinguisher lever to the sliding gallery or shade holder by means of a chain or flexible
cord or other flexible connector the said chain or flexible cord or connector being
secured to the end of the outer arm of the extinguisher lever. When the gallery or
shade holder is in its lowered position and the outer arm of the extinguisher lever is in
its lowest position and the extinguisher over the wicks, the chain or flexible cord or
connector is slackened. On lifting the sliding gallery the flexible connector is first
tightened and afterwards operates upon the extinguisher lover and lifting its outer arm
withdraws the extinguisher from the wicks. Thus, the raising of the gallery or globe
holder effects the withdrawal of the extinguisher and the wicks are ready to be
trimmed or the lamp lighted.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents partly in elevation and partly in
vertical section a duplex burner of a lamp for burning light or volatile oil containing
one of my improvements the gallery or shade holder being represented in its lowered
position and the extinguisher over the wicks and Figures 2 and 3 represent elevations
of the same taken in planes at right angles to one another, the gallery or shade holder
being represented in its raised position and the extinguisher withdrawn from the
wicks.
The same lotters of reference indicate the same parts.
a is the burner; b the sliding gallery and c, c the guiding rods of the same; dd are
the levers or lever arms and e the actuating handle by which the gallery 6 is raised
and supported in its raised position; ff are the wick holders and g g the sliding
double extinguisher; his the extinguisher lever the forked inner arm of which engages
with a cross bar between the two extinguishers for raising and lowering them as
usual; is the chain (or other flexible connector) by which the outer arm of the
extinguisher lever his connected to the sliding gallery b. When the gallery bis in its
lowered position and the outer arm of the extinguisher lever h is in its lowest position

page_text: as represented in Figure 1 the double extinguisher d, d is over the wicks in the
holders ff and the chain i is slackened. On lifting the sliding gallery 6 by the action
of the levers or lever arms d, d and handle e as represented in Figures 2 and 3, the
chain iis first tightened and afterwards operating upon the extinguisher lever h lifts
its outer arm and causes the extinguishers to be depressed from the wicks as
represented in the said Figures 2 and 3.
In this way the raising of the gallery b for lighting the lamp or trimming the wicks
automatically operates the. extinguisher lever and causes the other to depress the
extinguisher and uncover the wicks.
In place of the chain represented for connecting the extinguisher lever with the
sliding gallery, a flexible cord or other flexible connector may be used.
Although I prefer to use a flexible connector as described and represented yet an
inflexible connector may be employed. For example, a wire headed at its upper end
may be fixed to the outer arm of the extinguisher lever h the said wire passing through
and working in a hole or slot in the sliding gallery the head of the wire being
situated on the upper side of the gallery. When the sliding gallery is raised it
acts upon the head of the wire carrying the said wire with it and the latter
raises the extinguisher lever as beforo described and represented with respect to a
flexible connector.
The flexible or inflexible connector described also acts as a stop to the sliding gallery
or globe holder thereby rendering the stop nuts at the bottoms of the guiding rods of
the said gallery unnecessary.
My improvements may be applied to burners having mechanism for lifting the
sliding gallery of a different kind from that described and represented and having
extinguishing mechanism of a different kind from that described and represented,
provided that the extinguishing mechanism is operated by a lever of the kind
described and represented.
my
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed 1 declare that I claim as my
invention of "Improvements in lamps for burning light or volatile oils;”-
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Connecting the outer arm of the extinguisher lever of the burners of the said
lamps with the sliding gallery or globe holder by means of a chain or flexible cord or
other flexible connector or by an inflexible connector substantially as hereinbeforo
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing whereby the raising of the
sliding gallery or globe holder for lighting the lamp or trimming the wicks auto-
matically operates the extinguisher lever and causes the wicks to be uncovered, the
flexible or inflexible connector described also acting as a stop substantially us
described and illustrated.