Improvements in Lamp-burners for Burning Hydrocarbon Oils.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1888
Complete Left, 9th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 11th May, 1888
Improvements in Lamp-burners for Burning Hydrocarbon Oils.
I, WILLIAM LIGHBODY, of the firm of Thomas Rowatt & Sons, of 9, 10, 11,
and 12, Radsworth Street, City Road, in the County of Middlesex, and of
126, Fountain Bridge, Edinburgh, in the County of Midlothian, Lamp Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object to provide an improved burner for burning paraffin
and like hydrocarbon oils whereby a better light is obtained than with the ordinary
burners hitherto in use.
In carrying out my invention I use four or more flat wick tubes arranged so as
to produce four or more curved flames. Each flame is regulated by a separate winder
so as to allow of complete control over the flame at any given point.
In practice I construct my burner so that it can be fitted to oil vessels of ordinary
dimensions and I place the wick tubes close together at the base forming a square
(when four wick tubes are used) and the said wick tubes diverge outwards from base
to top so as to give sufficient space for the admission of air between the said wick
tubes for the purpose of combustion.
The dome or cone of the burner has as many slots in it as there are wick-tubes and
to effect the proper distribution of air from the space between the wick-tubes, I form
a thimble or projection on the underside of the dome which divides the air passing to
the flames so as to securo more perfect combustion.
I provide the wick-tubes both inside and outside with perforated air regulators or
purifiers such as are described in the Specification of my former Patent No. 1712
of 1882.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Lamp Burners for Burning Hydrocarbon Oils.
I, WILLIAM LIGRBODY, of the firm of Thomas Rowatt & Sons, of 9, 10, 11
and 12 Radsworth Street, City Road, in the County of Middlesex, and of
126, Fountain Bridge, Edinburgli, in the County of Midlothian, Lamp Manufacturers,
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:
This invention has for object to provide an improved burner for lamps burning
paraffin and like hydrocarbon oils whereby a better light is obtained than with the
ordinary burners hitherto in use.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1 is a plan and
figure 2 a vertical section of a lamp burner constructed according to my invention.
Similar letters of reference are used in both the figures to indicate similar parts.
In carrying out my invention I use four or more flat wick tubes a, a, a, a arranged
so as to produce four or more curved flames. Each flame is regulated by a
separate, winder b, b, b, b so as to allow of complete control over the flame at any
given point..
f
a
In practice I construct my burner so that it can be fitted to oil vessels of ordinary
'dimensions and I place the wick tubes a, a, a, a close together at the base forming
square (when four wick tubes are used, as in the drawing,) and the said wick tubes
diverge outwards from base to top so as to give sufficient space for the admission of
air between the said wick tubes for the purpose of combustion.
The dome or cone c of the burner has as many slots in it as there are wick tubes;
in the drawing there are four slots d, d, d, d, videlicet, one for each wick. tube, and
in order to effect the proper distribution of air from the space between the wick
tubes I form a thimble or projection e on the underside of the dome which, thimble
divides the air passing to the flames so as to ensure more perfect combustion. In
the drawing the thimble or projection e is shewn as stamped out from the dome, but
it will be obvious that it can be formed in any other suitable manner..
I provide the wick tubes a, a, a, a on both sides with perforated air regulators or
purifiers, such as are described in the Specification of iny former Patent No. 1712
of 1882.
All the other parts of the burner are of ordinary construction and therefore need
<no description.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same. is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :
The manufacture and use of the improved lamp burner bereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.