Improved Means for Regulating the Flames of Incandescent Oil Lamps.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Feb., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 15th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFIC
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PROVISIONAL DIMITIVATIO
Improved Means for Regulating the Flames of Incandescent Oil
Lamps.
I, SAMUEL SOLOMONS, of No. 10, South Street, Havant, in the County of Hants,
a Retired Solicitor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
An improvement on the "Era" incandescent oil lamp of the Era Incandescent
Oil Lamp Company by the addition of an instrument to be called "The flame
regulator" by means of which the flame can be regulated so as to prevent the
sooting of the mantle.
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The
The Era" incandescent oil lamp is an ordinary petroleum lamp with a cir-
cular wick tube (marked T in the accompanying drawing Figure 2) and a central
draught. A flame spreader is fitted into the centre of the said wick tube over
which is suspended a Welsback incandescent mantle marked M Figure 2. It
has a high chimney (C) (15 inches). The upper part of the burner called the
gallery (G) carrying the chimney and mantle is removable allowing the cleaning
of the wick. For the purpose of lighting the said upper part or gallery is raised
by a lever D. This exposes the wick as shown in the drawing Figure 2.
wick is raised or lowered by a screw E. This method of raising and of lowering the
wick is found to be insufficient for an incandescent oil lamp which requires that
the flame should be regulated to a much greater nicety than can be effected by the
screw E in order to prevent the sooting of the mantle. I therefore add to the said
lamp an instrument auxillary to the said screw E. This instrument is a piece
of metal (or other incombustible material) made to fit into the wick tube T
Figure 2 to regulate the hight of the flame to the greatest nicety. This instru-
ment I call a "flame regulator" and is figured in Drawing No. 1. The end
marked A Figure 1 is for use upon the wick when the said upper part or gallery.
(G Figure 2) is removed for the purpose of cleaning. The other end marked B
Figure 1 is for the purpose of useing when the said gallery is raised as shewn
in the drawing Figure 2 marked R.
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Improved Means for Regulating the Flames of Incandescent Oil
Lamps.
I, SAMUEL SOLOMONS, of No. 10, South Street, Havant, in the County of Hants,
a Retired Solicitor, 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 consists in an improved means of regulating the flame of the
"Era" incandescent oil lamp and of lamps of similar construction.

page_text: The "Era" Incandescent oil lamp is an ordinary petroleum lamp with a cir
cular wick tube (marked T in the drawings filed with my Provisional Specifica-
tion) and central draught. A flame spreader is fitted into the centre of the said
wick tube over which is suspended a Welsback incandescent mantle (marked M).
It has a high chimney (C) 15 inches. The upper part of the burner called the
gallery (G) carrying the chimney and mantle is removable allowing the cleaning
of the wick.
For the purpose of lighting the said upper part or gallery is raised by a
lever (D) this exposes the wick as shown in the said drawing.
The wick is raised or lowered by a screw (E) which is the only means pro-
vided for regulating the flame or of any defects thereof,
This method of regulating the flame simply by the raising and lowering of
the wick is found to be insufficient for an incandescent oil lamp which requires
that the flame should be regulated and corrected to a much greater nicety than
can be effected by the screw "E" alone in order to prevent the sooting or soiling
of the mantle which the slightest smoke or vapour will sully or blacken obscur
ing the light and rendering the lamp wholly unserviceable. My invention there-
fore consists in adding to the said lamp an instrument auxillary to the said
screw (E) and supplementing the action of the same enabling any irregularities
or defects in the flame to be at once remedied and corrected and to secure at any
time a clear level uniform flame free from smoke or flare. This instrument is a
piece of metal (or other incombustible material) made to fit into the wick tube
(marked T) so as to act directly on the wick and thus regulate the flame to a
far greater nicety than can possibly be effected by the screw (E) as hereinafter
described. This instrument I call a flame regulator" and is figured in Draw-
ing No. 1 filed with my Provisional Specification. The end marked (A) is for
use when the upper part or gallery is removed for the purpose of cleaning. The
other end marked (B) is for use as hereinafter described when the gallery is
raised as shown in the said drawing Figure 2 (marked R).
When the lamp is lit and turned up it is necessary to observe if the flame is
irregular that is to say to burn stronger in one part than another or if it
smokes then to raise the gallery by means of the lever (1) exposing the wick
then with the regulator to push the wick back into the wick tube at that part
where it burns too strong or smokes until the irregularity is corrected and à clear
level fame secured all around the wick.
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-
No. 1. This improved method of regulating and correcting the flame of the
"Era
incandescent and other oil lamps of similar construction so as to prevent
at any time smoking flareing and sooting and to secure a clear level and uniform
flame by means of an instrument called a flamegulator as delineated and
described herein.
2. The said flame regulator or any imitation thereof.
3. The system or method of flame regulation by means of the said flame regu-4
lator as applied to lamps of the said description herein set forth.
Dated this Fourteenth day of Santambay 1900
SAMUEL SOLOMONS.
No. 10, South Street, Havant, Hants.