IMPROVEMENTS IN LAMPS OR APPARATUS FOR BURNING NAPTHA, BENZOLE, AND SIMILAR LIQUIDS TO REPRE- SENT A CANDLE
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George'Glover, of Ranelagh Road, Pimlico, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LAMPS OR
APPARATUS FOR BURNING NAPTHA, BENZOLE, AND SIMILAR LIQUIDS TO REPRE-
SENT A CANDLE."-A communication from abroad by Laslo Chandor, of
St. Petersburg, in the Empire of Russia.
Scaled the 26th June 1868, and dated the 30th December 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Glover at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 30th
December 1867.
I, GEORGE GLOVER, of Ranelagh Road, Pimlico, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LAMPS OR APPARATUS FOR BURNING NAPIHA, BENZOLE, AND SIMILAR LIQUIDS TO
REPRESENT A CANDLE," communicated to him from abroad by Laslo Chandor, of
St. Petersburg, in the Empire of Russia, to be as follows:-
The object of the Invention is to form apparatus for the burning of naptha,
benzole, and similar liquids to present the appearance of candles. For this
purpose the external appearance of a candle of the form desired is obtained to
a tube by enamelling or glass, or other coating. This tube contains another
tube which may be of nearly the same size as the external one but leaving a
little space between them. This internal tube descends into the reservoir of
the naptha or other similar liquid, and it is filled nearly to the top of it with

page_text: cotton or other suitable porous material adapted to absorb or hold the naptha
or other similar liquid in suspension. The lower part of this tube descends
into the réservoir, where it is formed with openings to facilitate the passage
of the liquid from the reservoir to the porous substance contained in the tube.
The upper part of the combined tubes carries a wick tube with a passage or
passages by the side of or surrounding it, and the wick internally rests on the
upper part of the porous substance in the internal tube, or the wick may be
passed through the porous substance in the internal tube. The internal tube
may also be formed of openwork of a slightly conical or other form, leaving
increased space between parts of it and the internal tube, and to contain and be
in part surrounded by the cotton or other porous material. The lower open-
work portions in the reservoir may be connected to or form a portion of the
external tube. The lower portion of these tubes may be closed so that the
tube itself becomes the reservoir for the liquid, and to give increased surface to
the lower portions of such tubes as well as to adapt them to various sizes of
holders or sockets such lower portions may be enlarged and of a cylindrical,
conical, or other suitable form. The wick may have a cap or cover perforated
where the flame is produced. A wire may be conducted from the cap or cover
or wick down through the porous absorbing material.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Glover in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th June 1868..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
GLOVER, of Ranelagh Road, Pimlico, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Glover, Her special licence that I, the said George Glover,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Glover, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
'and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Chanuel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN

page_text: LAMPS OR APPARATUS FOR BURNING NAPTHA, BENZOLE, AND SIMILAR LIQUIDS TO
REPRESENT A CANDLE," coinmunicated to me from abroad by Laslo Chandor, of
St. Petersburg, in the Empire of Russia, upon the condition (amongst others).
that I, the said George Glover, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should.
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in :
the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately.
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Glover, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-..
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained. in and by the following.
statement thereof, that is to say:-
The object of the Invention is to form apparatus for the burning of naptha,
benzole, and similar liquids to present the appearance of a candle. For this..
purpose the external appearance of a candle of the form desired is obtained to..
a tube by enamelling or glass, or other coating. This tube contains another
tube which may be of nearly the same size as the external one but leaving a
little space between them. This internal tube descends into the reservoir of the
naptha or other similar liquid, and it is filled nearly to the top of it with cotton
or other suitable porous material adapted to absorb or hold the naptha or
other similar liquid in suspension. The lower part of this tube descends into
the reservoir, where it is formed with openings to facilitate the passage of the
liquid from the reservoir to the porous substance contained in the tube. The
upper part of the combined tubes carries a wick tube with a passage or
passages by the side of or surrounding it, and the wick internally rests on. the
upper part of the porous substance in the internal tube, or the wick may be
passed through the porous substance in the interual tube. The internal tube
may also be formed of openwork of a slightly conical or other form; leaving
increased space between parts of it and the internal tube, and to contain and
be in part surrounded by the cotton or other porous material. The lower
openwork portions in the reservoir may be connected to or form a portion of.
the external tube. The lower portion of these tubes may be closed so that
the tube itself becomes the reservoir for the liquid, and to give increased surface
to the lower portions of such tubes as well as to adapt them to various sizes'
of holders or sockets such lower portions may be enlarged and of a cylindrical,.
conical, or other suitable form... The wick may have a cap or.cover perforated.
where the flame is produced. A wire may be conducted from the cap or cover
or wick down through the porous absorbing material.

page_text: Figure Shows a sectional view, and iguanaterial view
arrangement of lamp according to the improvements. In each of these views
the same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a is the reservoir to contain the liquid to be consumed; b is the tube, which
by enamelling or otherwise may be prepared to present the appearance of a
wax or other candle. This tube may also be formed of or it may be cased
with glass or other matter c. The tube is formed to receive another tube d,
leaving space between it and the tube 6. The tube d descends into the
reservoir a, and at the lower part thereof it is formed, with slits or openings d¹
or other suitable openings adapted to facilitate the free passage of the liquid
in the reservoir a to the interior of the tube d. The tube d is filled to near
the upper part thereof with cotton, wool, or other suitable porous substance,
e is the wick tube through which the wick passes, and it may then rest on
the upper part of the cotton or other porous matter, in the tube d; or the
wick may be carried down through the cotton contained in the tube d and
into the reservoir a. The form of the internal tube.d may be varied, and it
may also be of a conical form and may be surrounded or partly so. by cotton
or other fibrous matter. The lower openwork portion of the tube d may be
formed as a continuation of the tube b. The lower portion of the tube b may
in some cases be closed, as represented by sectional view and side view,
Figures 3 and 4, to form a reservoir for the liquid, to be, consumed. In this
case the lower part i of such tube may be conical to facilitate its more readily
fitting into sockets of various sizes. 9, 9, are air passages by the side of the
wick tubee; h is a small air passage to admit of a small quantity, of air passing
into the reservoir a. The red line in this Figure represents a piece of wire
passing through the wick to promote the vaporization of the liquid. The wicks
may have a perforated cap or cover over them with a small portion of wire or
other suitable metallic. substance into the wick tube, so that when heat is
applied to the cap or cover such heat may be readily conducted down to the
liquid in the wick to generate vapour, which passing through the perforations
of the cap or cover may be ignited and then the. heat of the flame produced
will keep up the required: supply of gas to support.combustion.
Having thus described: the Invention as communicated to me I would have
it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details as shown and

page_text: described as these may be varied; but what I do claim is, the adaptation or
combination of means forming apparatus for burning naptha, benzole, and
similar liquids to represent a candle, substantially as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Glover, have bereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-cight.
GEO. GLOVER. (L.S.)