Improvements in or connected with Lamps for Burning Oil or Spirit.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 12th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Lamps for Burning Oil
or Spirit.
I, AUGUST KIESOW of 25 Fore Street Avenue in the City of London, Lamp
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to a modification of an invention in respect of which a
Complete Specification has been filed by me in pursuance of an application for
Letters Patent dated the 13th day of September 1894 No. 17449, and which
consists of hermetically sealing the burner with the container and forming in
continuation of the wick tube and beneath the same but preferably of greater area
than the wick tube proper, a wick case of S or waved form which extends to or
near to the bottom of the container.
The object of the present invention is to modify the S tube in such manner as
to more or less cheapen the cost of construction of the device and although iu effect
it is inferior to the device above referred to, yet it more or less answers the
purpose and inasmuch as it is less expensive to produce it is applicable to a cheaper
class of lamps.
In carrying the invention into effect the lamp burner is constructed in any well
known manner so as to make an hermetically tight joint with the reservoir or
container and in continuation thereof and beneath the wick tube and fixed with the
burner, but preferably of greater area than the wick tube proper is arranged a wick
case.
In applying the invention to a flat wick burner this case is formed in transverse
section of an oblong rectangular form, and instead of being straight or approxi-
mately so, it is formed in the direction of its length of the shape of one loop or
bend of the letter S connected with the burner by a straight neck, such loop or bend
in the preferred form being carried completely beyond lines drawn in continuation
of the sides of the neck or tube.
In order to ensure the successful action of the device, it is necessary that the
lamp should lie when overturned with the broad side of the wick tube or case in a
horizontal position or approximately so, and with a view to prevent its assuming
any other position it is provided with any well known means to compel the lamp to
assume a given position when overturned.
By the employment of the means herein before described in the event of a lamp
being overturned it will be impossible for any great body of oil to escape through
the wick tube as the flow thereof will be more or less arrested by the peculiar
formation of the wick case.
Although the invention is described as applied to a flat wick burner it can also
be applied in connection with round wick burners constructed to buru benzoline
or spirit and which at the present time are a source of considerable danger to the
public.
Dated this 21st day of March 1895
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27 Southampton Buildings, London, Agents. .

page_text: Improvements in or connected with Lamps for Burning Oil
or Spirit.
I, AUGUST KIESOW, of 25 Fore Street Avenue in the City of 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 :-
The invention relates to a modification of an invention in respect of which
Letters Patent have been granted to me dated the 13th day of September 1894
No. 17449, and which consists of hermetically sealing the burner with the container
and forming in continuation of the wick tube and beneath the same but preferably of
greater area than the wick tube proper a wick case of S or waved form which
extends to or near to the bottom of the container.
The object of the present invention is to modify the S tube in such manner as to
more or less cheapen the cost of construction of the device and although in effect it
is inferior to the device above referred to, yet it more or less answers the purpose
and inasmuch as it is less expensive to produce, it is applicable to a cheaper class
of lamps.
In carrying the invention into effect the lamp burner is constructed in any well
known manner so as to make an hermetically tight joint with the reservoir or
container, and in continuation thereof, and beneath the wick tube, and fixed with
the burner, but preferably of greater area than the wick tube proper is arranged a
wick case.
In applying the invention to a flat wick burner this case is formed in transverse
section of an oblong rectangular form, and instead of being straight or approxi-
mately so, it is formed in the direction of its length of the shape of one loop or bend
of the letter S connected with the burner by a straight neck, such loop or bend in
the preferred form being carried completely beyond lines drawn in continuation of
the sides of the neck or tube.
In order to ensure the successful action of the device, it is necessary that the
lamp should lie when overturned with the broad side of the wick tube or case in a
horizontal position or approximately so, and with a view to prevent its assuming
any other position it is provided with any well known means to compel the lamp to
assume a given position when overturned.
By the employment of the means hereinbefore described, in the event of a lamp
being overturned it will be impossible for any great body of oil to escape through
the wick tube as the flow thereof will be more or less arrested by the peculiar
formation of the wick case.
Although the invention is described as applied to a flat wick burner it can also
be applied in connection with round wick burners constructed to burn beuzoline
or spirit and which at the present time are a source of considerable danger to
the public.
And in order that the said invention may be more clearly understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed aided by the accompanying drawings more fully
to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.

page_text: Figure 5 is a sim lar view to Figure 3, but taken at right angles thereto.
Figure 6 is a sectional view showing the lamp in one of its capsized positions.
Figure 7 is a similar view showing the lamp in its other capsized position.
Figure 8 is a vertical section representing a round wick spirit or benzoline lamp
having the present invention applied thereto, and,
Figure 9 is a plan thereof.
In the several figures like parts are indicated by similar letters of reference.
Referring to Figures 1 to 7 a represents the oil container or reservoir a' represents
the burner fitting which is fixed with the container a, and represents the burner
which may be constructed in any well known manner so as to make an hermetically
tight joint or approximately so with the reservoir or container a, but the method of
connection represented in the drawings is similar to that shown and described in
the Specification of Letters Patent granted to me dated the 13th day of September
1894 No. 17449, and therefore needs no specific description here.
c represents the wick, and 2 represents the ordinary wick tube enclosing the
same, and in continuation of the wick tube 62, beneath the same and fixed with
the burner b, but preferably of greater area in section than the wick tube proper b³,
is arranged a wick case b³.
In applying the invention to a flat wick burner, this wick case 6 is formed in
transverse section of an oblong rectangular form as seen more clearly at Figure 4,
and instead of being straight or approximately so, it is formed in the direction of
its length and at * of the shape of one loop or bend of the letter "S" connected
with the burner by a straight neck such loop or bend 63* in the preferred form
being carried completely beyoud lines drawn in continuation of the sides of the
neck or tube 63 as shown by the dotted lines x in Figures 1 and 3, and the wick
case 3 is for its entire length ordinarily formed with corrugations or projections
as shown more clearly at Figure 4 and as fully described in the Specification of
Letters Patent granted to me dated the 9th day of November 1894 No. 21605
and for the same purpose.
In order to ensure the successful action of the device it is necessary that the
lamp should lie when overturned with the broad side of the wick case 6³ in a
horizontal position or approximately so, as represented at Figures 6 and 7, and
with a view to prevent its assuming any other position, the burner b is provided
with an oblong gallery 6 which will compel the lamp to assume a given position
when overturned.
Or the lamp might be provided with any other well known means for effecting
this object, and such for example as those described in the Specifications of the
Letters Patent hereinbefore referred to.
By the employment of the means bereinbefore described upon a lamp being
overturned it will be impossible for any great body of oil to escape through
the wick tube 2 as the flow thereof will be more or less arrested by the peculiar
formation of the wick case 65 for the reason that a column of oil will always be
contained in some part of the half "S" or bend 63* through which the air would
need to descend in order to release the contained oil.
In the example given at Figures 8 and 9 which represents the application of the
invention to a lamp of the benzoline or spirit class the parts are substantially the
same as those hereinbefore shown and described with respect to Figures 1 to 7,
except that the wick c and wick case 63 are in this case circular in transverse
section, and in lieu of the oblong gallery 6 hereinbefore described the body a of
the lamp is formed oblong, with the same object, and the action of this lamp is
identical with that described with respect to the previous figures of the
drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In combination with a lamp or lamp burner, a wick case descending into the

page_text: reservoir or container, and formed with a lateral bend, shaped like half of the
letter "S," substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose
stated.
2. In combination with a lamp or lamp burner, a wick case descending into
the reservoir or container, and formed with a lateral bend shaped like half of the
letter "S," and an oval gallery or other means for causing the lamp and conse
quently the wick case upon overturning to lie with either of its broad sides
towards the ground, substantially as herein shown and described and for the
purpose stated.
3. In combination with a lamp or lamp burner, a wick case descending into the
reservoir or container, and at its end bent to trap the oil, and means for causing
the lamp and consequently the wick case upon overturning to lie with either of
its broad sides towards the ground substantially as herein shown and described and
for the purpose stated.
Dated this 12th day of November 1895.
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27 Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.