Improvements in or connected with Oil Lamps, with Special Means for Supplying Air to the Flames thereof.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in or connected with Oil Lamps, with Special Means
for Supplying Air to the Flames thereof.
I, HENRY SALSBURY, of 124, Long Acre, London, Lamp Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention has for object certain construction of oil lamp bodies or
casings that air in a rarified form can be admitted to the flame or flames in
order to render the flame steady and prevent flickering.
The invention is specially applicable for carriage and like lamps and lanterns
whether they be of square, circular or other shape.
For the purpose of this invention I form a space or chamber between the top
of the casing and the roof liner to which air from a weather screen can be
admitted and I connect to said roof liner the reflector portion, a space or chamber
being also formed between such reflector and the back or side or sides of the
body the lower part of the reflector being part of or in direct contact with a
fixed plate arranged above the oil well and below the burner or its dome and to
which the down flowing air has passage preferably into the dome for the purpose
of feeding the flame or flames the air being rarified on its down travel by the
heat of the flame assisted by the heat of the smoke and vapour uptake which is
surrounded by the air inlet before referred to. The reflector may be part of the
door which fits close and permits of the air passing down from the inlet chamber
to the space under the fixed plate.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said H. Salsbury.
Improvements in or connected with Oil Lamps, with Special Means
for Supplying Air to the Flames thereof.
I, HENRY SALSBURY, of 124, Long Acre, London, Lamp Manufacturer, 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 has for object certain construction of oil lamp bodies be
casings that air in a rarefied form can be admitted to the flame or flames. in
order to render the flame steady and prevent flickering.

page_text: The invention is specially applicable for carriage and like lamps and lanterns
whether they be of square, circular, or other shapes.
The invention will be fully understood by reference to the annexed drawings.
Figure inside elevation of square lamp such as those used for broughams
and other like vehicles and in which the warm air chamber is formed from the
top to the bottom by the roof liner and reflector respectively to under the plate
above the oil tank.
Figure 2 similar elevation of the same with the addition of the extra reflector
being affixed to the door, so that the entering air becomes divided before it enters
the space between the plate and the oil tank.
Figures 3 and 4 elevations of round body lamp such as those used as head
and side lights of mail coaches and like vehicles.
For the purpose of this invention, I form a space or chamber A. between the
top B of the casing and the roof liner C to which air from a weather screen D
can be admitted, and I connect to said roof liner C the reflector portion E, a space
or chamber being also formed between such reflector and the back G or side or
sides of the body, the lower part of the reflector E being part of or in direct
contact with a fixed plate H arranged above the oil well I and below the burner
or its dome J, and to which the flowing air has passage preferably into the
dome for the purpose of feeding the flame or flames, the air being rarefied on
its down travel, as indicated by the arrows, by the heat of the flame from within
the lamp, assisted by the heat of the smoke and vapour uptake K which is
surrounded by the air inlet before referred to. The reflector E may be in duplicate
such as in the door L as well as at the back or at the door only, and when the
door L is shut it fits close and permits the air, or a portion only to pass down
from the inlet chamber 'A to the space M thence behind the reflector E, and under
the fixed plate H.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the safe is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
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The construction of oil lamps for carriages with air entries around the
weatherings D, over a roof liner C, down between the body G or door L, and a
reflector E, and thence under a plate H to the space between the oil well I and
the burner J or dome thereof, for feeding the flame with rarefied air as set forth
and shown.
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