improvements in Household and other Paraffin-oil or Light Burning Fluid Lamps for increasing their Safety.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Oct., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 5th July, 1888.
Complete Specification Accepted, 10th Aug.. 1988
improvements in Household and other Paraffin-oil or Light Burning
Fluid Lamps for increasing their Safety.
I, MATTHEW MORLAND of 38 Moon Street Liverpool in the County of Lancaster
Cargo Deliverer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
This invention consists in bringing the wick-tube of the lamp down almost to the
very bottom of the reservoir and making the wick-tube the sole communication between
the reservoir and the burner.
I propose to solder or otherwise fix a socket to the wick-tube and screw the burner
into this in preference to screwing a disc on the tube into a socket on the burner.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord, Street, Liverpool,
Agents for the Applicant.

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Improvements in Household and other Paraffin-011 or Light Burning
Fluid Lamps for Increasing their Safety.
I, MATTHEW MORLAND, of 38, Moon Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Master Stevedore 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:-
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This invention consists in bringing the wick tube of the lamp down almost to the
very bottom of the reservoir, and making the wick tube the sole communication between
the reservoir and the burner.
The invention is best described by aid of the accompanying drawing in which,
Figure 1 is a lamp in sectional elevation part of the wick tube, the crown burner,
etcetera, being shown in elevation.
Figure 2 a plan of the lamp, the burner being removed.
In these A is the reservoir or container, into which is screwed the wick tube G.
Into the wick tube G is screwed the socket 13 of the crown C. D is the gallery for
supporting the lamp chimney. E the disc for raising the wick, F perforations for
admitting a current of air upon the wick, so as to insure a more perfect combustion.
Instead of screwing the socket B onto the wick tube G, they may be soldered.or
otherwise fixed together, and the wick tube may, if desired, extend through the socket
to form the burner. The said wick tube G extends to near the bottom of the reservoir,
The flame
and forms the sole communication between the reservoir and the burner.
has no access to the body of oil in the former, and cannot creep down the wick so as
to ignite the oil. The reservoir is filled by unscrewing the screwed plug H, or simply
by unscrewing the wick tube G. In using the lamp, I prefer not to quite fill the
reservoir, so that if the lamp is upset, the surface of the oil will be below the mouth g
of the wick tube G, and cannot therefore escape. A vent hole is preferably provided
in the plug H for admitting air to the reservoir.
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
1 claim is
1. The method of preventing dangerous explosions in paraffin oil and other like
lamps, which consists in isolating the air above the oil in the lamp from the wick,
until the said oil has got so low as to be no longer a source of danger.
2. The combination in a lamp for burning paraffin oil or other light burning fluid,
of the socket B, and wick tube G, fixed or attached to said socket, and extending to
nearly the bottom of the oil chamber, whereby'all communication between the air in
the lamp and the flame, is cut off so long as there is any appreciable amount of oil in
the lamp.
Din tih dow of Jul. 1000