Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 25th Jan., 1897-4ccepted, 27th Mar., 1897
1. HARRY ALLDAY, trading as Horton and Allday, of Warstone Lane, in the
City of Birmingham, Manufacturing Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an apparatus for the diffusion or dissemination of scents
in apartments.
The vaporizer or means of distributing the scents consists of an apparatus
perfectly self-contained and indestructible in itself, and constituting a glow
burner made up primarily of a metal cage, supported by a metallic stalk taking
into the bore of a cotton wick located within the wick casing of a spirit lamp,
which cage contains a number of pillules or granules of spongy platinum, either in
its natural state, or blended with plaster-of-paris or other suitable material for
binding the said platinum together in the form of solid globules or pillules.
The cage may be of perforated metal or of woven wire gauze, and may be made
for preference of either platinum, silver or copper.
The said cage is carried above the top of the wick, and forms a. kind of
deflector upon which the flame of the lamp plays when lighted to start the
apparatus.
The spirit has incorporated with or dissolved in it, the scent, which is distributed
or diffused during the vaporization of the spirit.
Assuming that the container of the lamp has been filled with scented spirit, then
light the wick for a few moments, until the cage and the pillules contained therein
have become thoroughly heated, then blow out the flame when the pillules do not
cool but continue to keep red hot and glow and communicate their heat to the cage
from whence it is conducted to the metallic tube and to the spirit-saturated wick
surrounding it, hence the spirit is caused to continue to rise up the wick by
capillary attraction and is vaporized, disseminates its scent to the atmosphere
and by the spirit vapor coming in contact with the spongy platinum pillules, the
same are kept on the glow.
This continues so long as spirit remains in the lamp and the pillules are exposed
to the air.
An extinguisher is provided for cutting off air from the cage in order to cause
Bame to cease glowing and an ornamental pierced hood or cover is provided for
covering up the enge, wick and burner when the pillules are glowing. If
necessary a rotatory extinguisher may be embodied with the book and be adapted
to cover up the piercings in the hood when it is required to put the diffuser out of
operation.
As a modification the cage or an equivalent part may be made of platinum and
the use of the spongy platinum pillules may be then dispensed with.
Datul this 22nd day of Anril 1896
HARRY ALLDAY,
By Heury Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: 1, HARRY ALLDAY, trading as Horton aud Allday, of Warstone Lane, in the
City of Birmingham, Manufacturing Jeweller, 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 :-
My invention relates to an apparatus for the diffusion or dissemination of scents
or perfumes in apartments.
The vaporizer or means of distributing perfume or scent consists essentially of a
self-contained apparatus in the form of a glow lamp or burner comprising a small
block of composition whose principal element is spongy platinum (or a metal cage
containing small pieces or granules of spongy platinum) supported by a suitable
metallic stalk or carrier encircled by a cotton wick located within the wick casing
of a spirit lamp. The said block or pieces of composition may be made either of
spongy platinum alone or of a combination of ammonium platino-chloride,
calcined muguesia, powdered asbestos and clay or of spongy platinum powdered
asbestos and clay, or of spongy platinum combined with plastor-of-paris or other
suitable material which will bind the particles of platinum together in the required
form.
The said platinum block or the cage containing the pieces of platinum is carried
above the top of the wick, and forms a kind of deflector upon which the flame of
the lamp plays when lighted to start the apparatus, whilst the spirit contained in
the reservoir of the lamp has incorporated with or dissolved in it, the scent or
perfume which is distributed or diffused during the vaporization of the spirit, as
hereinafter described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an elevation of one form of
scent diffuser constructed according to my invention and shown with the extinguisher
removed.
Figure 2 represents a complete vertical section of the lamp, with the extinguisher
in position, whilst
Figure 3 shows a topside plan, with both the extinguisher and the casing or
protector which encloses the platinum cone or bluck removed.
Figure 4 represents a vertical section and Figure 5 an elevation of the extinguisher
separately.
Figure 6 represents a vertical section, side elevation and plan of the spongy-
platinum cone or block, and its twisted wire stem or supporting stalk, the section
show how the composition is affixed to the summit of the same by embedding the
branching free ends of the wires in the material of the cone.
Figure 8 represents a vertical section, elevation and topside plan of the small
pointed metal tube constituting the carrier of the composition block, the stem of
which takes into the bore of the said tube.
Figure 9 represents a vertical section of the wick carrier and wick, and Figure 10
shows an elevation of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 10 of
the drawings.
The diffusing apparatus comprises spirit lamp a, the reservoir or container a',
of which is charged with spirits of wine having a volatile scent or perfume incor-
porated with or dissolved in it, whilst the burner part a', is fitted with a wick b,
depending into the spirit in the reservoir and carried in a wick tube or casing b
having out out and inwardly bent teeth or parts arrauged to prevent the wick
slipping down the tube. Located ceutrally within the wick, and with its upper
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page_text: end coming flush with the top of the same, is a small metallic tube c, preferably
having a closed and pointed end c', and within the bore e, of which, the stem or
stalk d', of the spongy platinum or composition block d, (whose purpose is fully
described hereafter) is slipped, the underside of the said block or cone of com-
position being thus supported preferably at a short distance from the upper face of
the wick, which is saturated with the scent-chargail spirit.
e is a perforated or reticulated metal cover or protector for this block, having its
mouth end e', of a sizo suitable for taking over the collar a', and which, whon the
lamp or diffuser is in action, takes the position shown in Figure 1, whilst is an
extinguisher, for putting the lamp out of action.
Assuming the reservoir of the lamp has been filled with scented spirit, and that
the wick has been thoroughly saturated with the same, then light the lamp and
allow the flame of the same to play upon the composition block and the protector
of the same for a few moments or until the said block becomes red hot. The flame
is then gently blown out, when the composition block does not cool down, but con-
tinues to glow and communicate its heat to its stem from whence it is conducted to
the supporting tube and the spirit-saturated wick surrounding it. The spirit
continues to rise up the wick by capillary attraction and is vaporised and
disseminates the perfume incorporated with it to the atmosphere, and by the
spirit vapor coming in contact with the composition, the same is kept constantly
on the glow so long as any spirit remains in the lamp and the composition is
exposed to the air. The extinguisher f, is provided for the purpose of cutting off
air from the composition in order to cause same to cease glowing, whilst the
ornamentally pierced protector er cover covers up the said composition, wick and
burner when the lamp is glowing.
If necessary a rotatory extinguisher may be embodied with the protector and be
adapted to cover up the piercings in the same when it is required to put the diffuser
out of operation.
The block of composition may be of a conical or other form and may be attached
to its stem or support in any suitable way.
Figure 11 represents a modified form of diffuser, in which the platinum com-
position is made up in the form of small globules or pieces, or number of which
are enclosed in a metal cage or perforated enclosure supported from a stem in the
same way as the cone described in the preceding arrangement.
Figure 12 is a vertical section of the same.
d is the perforated metal cage, containing a number of pillules or small pieces d',
of the platinum conposition, the action of which is the same as that of the block
described in the first arrangement.
As a further modification, the said cage or an equivalent device may be
provided and constructed entirely of fine platinum wire, no composition being
employed at all, as the metallic platinum would act in essentially the same
way as the spongy-platinum element of the composition used in the previous
modifications.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tien and in what manner the saine is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. Ascent diffuser or means of distributing perfume or scent consisting
essentially of a small block of composition whose principal element is spongy
platinum (or a metal cage or equivalent containing small pieces of such com-
position) supported by a suitable metallic stalk or other carrier encircled by a
wick located within the wick casing of a spirit lamp, substantially as described and
set forth.

page_text: Secondly. A scent diffuser as referred to in the preceeding claim in com-
bination with a perforated cover or protector e, substantially as described and
`set forth..
Thirdly. The improvements in means or apparatus for diffusing scents or vapors,
-substantially as herein described and set forth.
Dated thin..
HARRY ALLDAY,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.