Year: 1888

page_text: I FREDERICK SAVAGE of 384, Grant Road, Battersea in the County of Surrey, Oil
and Colourman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide means whereby a lighted paraffin lamp
may be extinguished automatically or by hand.
In carrying out my invention, I employ flaps or shutters which are arranged to
close over the wick tube. The flaps or shutters may each be secured to an
oscillating rod carried by, and transversely of the gallery of the lamp, the outer ends
of which may be cranked to form handles by which the rods may be moved axially in
one direction. The rods are provided with coiled springs by which they are brought
back to their normal position.
In lamps to be automatically extinguished, and now known as "safety lamps,"
the flaps may be arranged to remain closed in their normal position.-On one of the
cranks is mounted a lever, one end of which is formed with a catch to take over
the other crank when the two cranks are approached to one another, in which position
the flaps will be open. To the other end of the lever is attached a chain connected
with a ball or weight, which, in its normal position, will rest in a shallow cup on a
bracket, or in a recess on the stand, so that the chain will be loose. If the lamp be
unduly tipped or shaken, the ball will roll out of its cup, jerk the lever, and release
the catch, when the two flaps will be closed by their springs; or I may attach the
flaps to tubes working on the wick tubes, and actuated by a lever extending beyond
the gallery, and to which the ball or weight will be attached by a chain.
In adapting the appliance as an ordinary extinguisher, the flaps may be arranged
to remain open in their normal position, and the cranks will be arranged to cross
one another, so that by pushing down the cranks, the flaps will be brought over the
wick to extinguish the flame. In this case, also, a chain with weight may be
attached to the cranks, so that when the weight rolls off the cup, its weight will jerk
down the cranks, and cause the flaps to rise and close over the flame.
I would here remark that this invention is applicable to all kinds of paraffin lamps,
as well as to paraffin oil stoves.
11:20 Jaw of Mo. 1908

page_text: Paramin Lamps and Oil Stoves.
I FREDERICK SAVAGE of 38ª Grant Road, Battersea in the County of Surrey, Oil
and Colourman, 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 object of the present invention is to provide means for extinguishing lighted
lamps or stoves automatically (when the lamp is overset) or by hand.
According to my invention, I arrange, on either side of the wick tube, hinged
shutters, which close over and extinguish the flame.
When automatic extinguishing is required, the closing of the shutters is effected
by springs which are retained compressed by a lever catch. The lever catch is
disengaged by a weight attached thereto, falling from a supporting cup, should the
be tipped out of the vertical, or the catch may be disengaged by hand to
the shutters to close.-If it be required only to extinguish the lamp or stove by
o normal position of the shutters, (retained by springs,) may be open, and the
the springs may be overcome by hand when it is desired to extinguish
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In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 is a plan view of the burner of a paraffin lamp fitted with my invention.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof.
Fig. 3 is a plan of an oil stove, and
Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the same.
Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are details and modifications of parts of the stove.
I will first describe the invention with reference to Figs. 1 and 2.
A is the wick tube, and B B are the shutters arranged on either side thereof, and
carried upon cranked spindles bb, capable of partial rotation in bearings in the
gallery of the lamp. The spindles bb are provided with springs, which tend to
press the shutters B B into the dotted position of Fig. 2, closing the wick tube.
The cranked end of one of the spindles is provided with a catch lever C, for
taking onto the cranked end of the other spindle b. The tail of this lever is provided
with a chain and weight c c. While the lamp is alight, the shutters are held open,
against the pressure of the springs 616, by the catch of the lever C, as shown
in Figs. 1 and 2, the weight e' being supported upon the cup e. Should the lamp be
upset, the weight is thrown off the cup, and the lever is tipped so as to free the
cranked ends of the spindles bb. The shutters B B then take the dotted position of
Fig. 2, and extinguish the lamp. The extinction can also be effected by disengaging
the catch lever C by hand.
In connection with the other figures of the drawings, 1 have used similar letters of
reference to indicate corresponding parts.
In the Figs. 3 and 4, is shown a flat wick oil stove, but with the chimney removed,
as in the case of the lamp.

page_text: BB are the shutters of the extinguisher, carried on spindles 66 passing through
bearings in brackets d d, bolted or otherwise secured to the gallery of the stove, or to
the wick tube. Figs. 3 & 4 show these brackets d d at either end of the gallery, and
Fig. 5 shows the form thereof in detail.
Fig. 6 shows a gallery support arranged at the side of the wick tube A, with a
bracket of the form shown in Fig. 7 secured thereto, and Figs. 8 and 9 show, in side
elevation and end view, a bracket attached to the wick tube direct.-
- is the box for
the ratchet spindle E, for raising and lowering the wick. The springs b₁₁ of the
spindles bb, in this case, hold the shutters apart, and the cranked ends of the spindles
are, by preference, crossed as shown, so that the depression thereof, in the dotted
position of Fig. 4, will overcome the pressure of the springs, close the shutters, and
put out the flame. ff are retaining lugs for the stove chimney, not shown, and fl
is a snap spring for securing it when in position.
Sometimes in lamps or stoves to be extinguished by hand, as in Figs. 3 and 4, the
springs may be omitted, the shutters merely resting in an open position until closed
by the depression of the cranked ends of their spindles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. In extinguishers for paraffin lamps and oil stoves, the combination of a pair of
shutters B B, cranked spindles bb, and springs bb, arranged and operating sub-
stantially as described and shown.
2. In extinguishers for paraffin lamps and oil stoves, the combination of a pair of
shutters B B, cranked spindles bb, springs b¹¹, and lever catch C, arranged and
operating substantially as set forth.
3. In an extinguisher for paraffin lamps and oil stoves, consisting of a pair of
shutters, closing over the wick tube, a pair of cranked spindles for operating the
shutters, substantially in the manner described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 25th day of Fahruary 1980