AN IMPROVEMENT IN OIL AND SPIRIT LAMPS
Year: 1884

page_text: We WILLIAM HENRY BAILEY of 25 Barr Street Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Manufacturer and WILLIAM HICKIN of 83. Buckingham Street
Birmingham in the aforesaid County of Warwick Brassfounder do hereby declare
the nature of the said invention for AN IMPROVEMENT IN OIL AND SPIRIT LAMPS
to be as follows:-
This improvement is applicable to oil or spirit lamps of all kinds intended to
be used as bracket or pendant lights and has for its object the placing of the
reservoir of the lamps in such a position as not to cast a shadow when the lamp
is lighted. This we effect in the case of brackets by forming the arm of the
bracket into a hollow case or recepticle for the oil with an opening on the upper
side thereof near the end over which opening the wick case and gallery is placed.
The bracket thus formed may then be attached to a wall or whore else required.
In applying the improvement to pendant lamps the arms are constructed as
above described and if desired the body of the pendant may also be constructed as
a reservoir with each arm connected therewith.
The reservoirs of these brackets or pendants may be formed of metal glass
earthenware or any other suitable material.
PAYNE & TALBOT,
4 & 5, Arcade Chambers,
Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: We WILLIAM HENRY BAILEY of 25 Barr St Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturer and WILLIAM HICKIN of 83 Buckingham Street Birmingham
aforesaid Brassfounder do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for AN
IMPROVEMENT IN OIL AND SPIRIT LAMPS and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the drawing hereunto annexed and to the letters
and figures marked thereon.
This improvement is applicable to oil or spirit lamps of all kinds intended to be
used as bracket or pendant lights and has for its object the placing of the reservoir
of the lamps in such position as not to cast a shaddow when the lamp is lighted.
This we effect in the case of brackets by forming the arm of the bracket into a
hollow case or receptacle for the oil with an opening on the upper side thereof near
the end over which opening the wick case and gallery is placed.
The bracket thus formed may then be attached to a wall or elsewhere.
In applying the improvement to pendant lamps the arms are constructed as
above described and if desired the body of the pendant may also be constructed as
a reservoir with each arm connected therewith.
The reservoirs of these brackets or pendants may be formed of metal glass
earthenware or any other suitable material.
Refering to the drawing which represents a bracket lamp in which (a) is the
arm formed as a hollow case or receptacle for the oil with the opening (b) on the
top near the end in which opening the wick case and gallery (c) is placed. The
bracket can be attached in the ordinary way by the rose (d) to a wall or elsewhere.
(e) is an opening by which to fill the tube, (f) being a screw cap to close the
opening.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The improvement in oil and spirit lamps by constructing the arms or brackets
which carry the wick holders so that such arms or brackets shall in themselves be
the reservoirs or receptacles for the oil or spirit.