Improvements in Lamp Wick. Trimmers.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th. Oct:, 1894
Complete Specification Left. 19th July, 1895-Accepted, 24th Aug, 1895.
PROVISIONAL: STECTEICAMION
Improvements in Lamp Wick. Trimmers.
I, HERBERT VILLIERS RIPPINGILLE, trading as Rippingille Brothers,, of
Sampson. Road North, in the City, of Birmingham, Manufacturer; do hereby
declare the nature of' this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in lamp wick trimmers and its object is to
produce a neat and serviceable trimmer which shall cut the charred portion off and
retain the charred. matter so cut off,,thus avoiding, fouling. the lamp.
My invention consists in a knife or knife edge arranged in combination with a
recess or trough. so that when the knife edge is used to cut away the charred
portion of the wick. the charted. matter falls into the recess or trough. and' is
there held.
In one method of carrying my invention into effect. I construct a shovel or spoon
shaped. instrument. having a suitable handle attached: to or. forming part. of the
shovel or spoon.
I cut a slit into the shovel, or spoon preferably from. the front
and sharpen the interior. edge to a knife edge. To trim, the wick. I. push the slit
along the charred portion, the back or knife edge then cuts the charred portion off
tlie wick and it falls into the shovel or spoon. Instead of a spoon shaped with
knife edge sometimes arrange a handle with a knife end attached to it, the knife.
end being preferably of crescent or hook form sharpened along its edge and
provided with a trough recess, or guard back to retain the charred.material..
My knife edge lamp wick trimmer may be made. in other. forms than spoon or
knife without departing from my invention provided the trimmer so made' is supplied
with a knife edge for outting the charred matter and a recess, trough, or guarded
receptacle into which it falls. when cut.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London; W.C., and
3 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Lamp Wick Trimmers.
I, HERBERT VILLIERS RIPPINGILLE, trading as Rippingille Brothers, of
Sampson Road North, in the City of Birmingham, 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in lamp wick trimmers, and its object is to
produce a neat and serviceable trimmer which shall cut away the charred portion
of the wick, and retain the charred matter so cut off, thus avoiding fouling the
lamp.
My invention consists in a knife or knife edge arranged in combination with a
recess or trough, so that when the knife edge is used to cut away the charred

page_text: portion of the wick, the charred matter falls into the recess or trough and is
there held.
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In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings, to be hereinafter referred
to :-
Figure 1 is a plan, and Figure 2 an elevation representing one form of my
improved lamp wick trimmer, the shovel or spoon shaped trough in Figure 2 being
shown in section.
Figures 3 and 4 are similar views representing another form of the trimmer,
having a crescent shaped trough for the reception of the charred material.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
In one method of carrying my invention into effect, I construct a shovel or spoon
shaped instrument, such as illustrated at Figures 1 and 2, having a suitable
handle, A, attached to or forming part of the shovel or spoon shaped trough B.
I cut or form a slit C in the shovel or spoon B, and sharpen the interior side b to a
knife or cutting edge. To trim the wick, I push the slit end of the shovel along
the charred portion; the back or knife edge 6 then cuts the charred portion off the
wick and it falls into the shovel or spoon B.
Instead of a spoon or shovel such as B with knife edge b, I sometimes arrange a
handle with a knife end such as D attached to it, as illustrated at Figures 3 and 4,
the knife end being preferably of crescent or hook form sharpened along its front
edge, and provided with a trough recess, or guard back d, to retain the charred
material.
My knife edge lamp wick trimimer may be made in other forms than that of a
spoon or knife, as herein before described, without departing from my invention,
provided the trimmer so made is supplied with a knife edge for cutting the charred
matter and a recess, trough, or guarded receptacle, into which it falls when cut.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
A lamp wick trimmer, substantially as and for the purposes herein described.
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MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.