A Combined Safety Lamp and Fire Grenade.
Year: 1888

page_text: A Combined Safety Lamp and Fire Grenade.
We, CHARLES WELLS, of No. 53, Charlotte Street, Portland Place, in the County
Middlesex, Gentleman, and EDWIN CHARLES, of Stapleton, Bristol, in the County of
Gloucestershire, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
According to our invention we diminish the risks of fire inherent more or less to all
lamps by combining the lamp with a fire grenade.
For this purpose, we manufacture the lamp with two or more receptacles, one of
which is for the illuminating oil, and the other for the extinguishing liquid.
The receptacles for this liquid may be attached to the lamp or made detachable
or detached and are generally made of a brittle substance, such as glass or porcelain,
or at least of a substance that can easily be torn, split, or rent, such as indiarubber, or
the like.
We, CHARLES WELLS, of No. 53, Charlotte Street, Portland Place, in the County
Middlesex, Gentleman, and EDWIN CHARLES, of Stapleton, Bristol, in the County of
Gloucestershire, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
According to our invention we diminish the risks of fire inherent more or less to all
lamps by combining the lamp with a fire grenade.
For this purpose, we manufacture the lamp with two or more receptacles, one of
which is for the illuminating oil, and the other for the extinguishing liquid.
The receptacles for this liquid may be attached to the lamp or made detachable
or detached and are generally made of a brittle substance, such as glass or porcelain,
or at least of a substance that can easily be torn, split, or rent, such as indiarubber, or
the like.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: We, CHARLES WELLS, of No. 53, Charlotte Street, Portland Place, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, and EDWIN CHARLES, of Stapleton, Bristol, in the County of
Gloucester, Gentleman, 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 :-
Our invention relates to an improvement in the construction of lamps, more
especially those which are portable, and consists in combining a fire extinguishing
grenade therewith.
In order that our invention, and the means by which it is to be carried into
practical effect, may be thoroughly understood, we will now describe the same in
detail, referring in so doing to the accompanying figures which are to be taken as
part of this specification and read therewith.
Fig. 1 is an elevation illustrating the embodiment of our invention in a portable
petroleum lamp, the container being made in one piece with the grenade.
Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation illustrating the embodiment of our invention in a
portable petroleum lamp in which the container and grenade are made separate, and
joined in any convenient way.
A is the container for the illuminating oil; and B is the grenade duly charged with
any suitable fire extinguishing fluid.
The material of which the grenade is made may be glass or porcelain or any of the
brittle materials used in the lamp trade. It may be made in whole, or in part, of
indiarubber, or any other substance which can be easily, and at a moment's notice,
torn or broken quite open, so that there shall be no obstacle presented by the said
material to the full application of the contents of the grenade to the lamp flame before
it has the chance of igniting any of its surroundings, e.g., the table-cloth, if it be
thrown over.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The combination, in a lamp, of container for the illuminating oil and grenade
charged with fire extinguishing fluid or material, as set forth.
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PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.