Improved Lamps and Apparatus for Lighting, Cooking, and similar Purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: ate of Application, 18th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Lamps and Apparatus for Lighting, Cooking, and
similar Purposes.
ADOLPH ZALKIN GERMAINS of 380 Oxford Street London W., Inventor and
Manager, and RICHARD SANDON GUTTERIDGE of 58, Brook Street Grosvenor
Square London, W. Physician, 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:-
An arrangement of paraffin or other lamps, and specially constructed boilers, for
affording light and heat, and for the speedy and cleanly carrying out of all ordinary
cooking operations.
The arrangement and construction are duly set forth as follows.
Fig. I. The elevation of the legs or supports of the lamps and boilers.
Fig. II. Plan of legs or supports.
Fig. III. Lamp fitting into rings.
Fig. IV. Lower portion of boiler.
Fig. V. Plan and elevation of gauze shelf or diaphragm.
Fig. VI. Section of upper part of boiler.
Fig. VII. Elevation of complete apparatus.
Fig. VIII. Alternative arrangement of apparatus as a table decoration.
Fig. 1. Elevation of the legs or supports of the lamps or boilers.
A. the legs, of wrought iron, 24 inches in height, & 1½ inches in thickness in
their upper part, and 2 inches in thickness in their lower part.
The upper part of the legs is bent outwards, the lower part bent inwards.
B. milled-headed thumb screws, for fastening the legs to the rings C, C.
The said rings being in height 134 inches distant from each other.
Fig. 2. Plan of legs and rings.
The rings C, C, C, C, are of wrought iron and are of 7 inches in diameter, the
thickness of iron of which they are made of an inch by of an inch.
The rings are separated in line from each other, by a piece of wrought iron
14 inches in length.
The legs A. are fixed by screws B to the rings C, to form the complete
stand Fig. 1.
(The distance of the legs, from front to back, being 12 inches.)
Fig. 3. The lamp.
It is fitted with a duplex-burner, a chimney, and a globe and its reservoir
is of such diameter, as to fit easily in any of the rings C, C, as shewn in
Figs. 7 and 8.
When the lamp is placed in the lower of the rings C, the bottom of the reservoir
is 3 inches from any table or stand on which it is placed.
The chimney of the lamp extends beyond the upper part of the upper ring C, by a
space of 24 inches.
Figs. 1, 2 and 3, complete the description of the lamp and the stand.
Figs. 4 & 6. The boiler, the upper portion and the lower portion and the lid.
Fig. 4. The lower portion of the boiler.
It is provided on the outside with two handles and furnished with a tap.
Height 7 inches, diameter 7 inches.
Convex bottom 24 inches in height.
D, D are projections, for the support of the gauze shelf or diaphragm Fig. 5.
The height of the lower projections 2 inches from the bottom of the boiler.
The height of the upper projections 4 inches from the bottom of the boiler.
Fig. 5. Plan and elevation of the gauze shelf or diaphragm.

page_text: The shelf or diaphragm, 64 inches in diameter, is of fine metal gauze stretched
on or supported by a metal rim an inch in thickness with notches or easements or
clearings to allow of the shelf when required, being readily raised or lowered over
or beyond the projections, D, by means of the handles F, F.
These handles, also serve the purpose of removing the shelf altogether when
necessary.
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When the shelf is raised or lowered so as just to clear the projections D, a
slight turn of the shelf to left or right secures its position, either on the higher or
lower projection.
Fig. 6. Section of upper portion of boiler with lid G, removed.
Height of the upper part of the boiler 1 inch, from lower rim, 7 inches in
diameter, 2 inches in height of shaped rim, leaving a space for lid 2 inches.
Lid in diameter 2 inches.
D, D, are projections of similar construction position and
use, as in lower portion
of boiler, for admitting and securing the gauze shelf, for the purpose of cooking
vegetables or anything else of small size.
The gauze shelf in upper portion of boiler is precisely of the same material, size,
shape and construction, as that of the shelf described under Fig. 5.
The lid G, if removed, when the apparatus is in use for cooking or steaming,
affords an additional convenient and useful opening in which to place a tea or
coffee pot for the infusion of either tea or coffee.
Fig. 7. Elevation of complete apparatus.
It is
It supplies light and heat, and at the same time whilst affording these as desired,
it cooks or boils rapidly, wherever it may be placed at a very trifling cost.
always available for any of these purposes.
Fig. 8. An alternative arrangement of the lamps, so as to serve for lighting and
for table decoration.
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It is claimed for the improved Lumare lamps and boilers, as set forth in the
foregoing Specifications, that they constitute a complete apparatus, convenient,
economical, unrivalled and thoroughly adapted to the uses for which they are
designed.
That they are unique in construction and to the best of our knowledge and belief,
they have not been anticipated in any part of the world.
The stand or legs may be made of any suitable material or suitable construction,
and they may be fastened to the rings in any way or by any contrivance.
The boilers, may be made of copper, brass, tin, iron or earthenware or china
either in part or as regards the whole part of them.
The movable shelves may be of gauze perforated metal, or any kind of per-
forated earthenware or china, either in whole or in part, or they may be fixed or
lowered or introduced by any arrangement or method, that will answer the purposes
herein previously described.
There is no limit either to the size or number of the lamps or boilers that may
be made use of in the apparatus.
They may be of such a number and size, as to cook conveniently and expeditiously
for one individual or more or even for an army corps in the field or in barracks
temporary or otherwise.
The lamps may be used without the boilers but when used with the boilers, it is
contended, that cooking of any kind is speedily performed in a convenient and
cleanly manner, and that by the construction of the bottom of the boiler as
previously described three special advantages are secured.
The bottom of the boiler Fig. 4. is made concave on the outside and convex on
the inside; the concavity being of the depth of from 2 to 24 inches, Figs. 4
and 7.
The greatest convexity is only a very short distance from the top of the chimney
of the lamp, just at that point where the heat produced by the flame strikes most
directly and fiercely; so that
(a.) The heat most speedily acts on the contents of the boiler.

page_text: (b.) The carbon, which in the case of a flat bottomed boiler would speedily
form in a thick coating, is consumed by a rapid stream of oxygen rushing
in from all sides, whilst the bottom of the boiler remains bright and
uncoated.
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(c.) By the same means any disagreeable odour pervading a room, is drawn in
and consumed. No smell of paraffin attends the use of these lamps.
Lastly as to the shelves or diaphragms in the lower portion of the boiler, and
especially in the upper portion, as to their construction methods of moving and
fastening and for the great improvements they effect in cooking, so as to ensure its
thoroughness and when desired of pure and clear soup at the bottom of the boiler
from the gravy of the meat cooking above, whilst they secure compartments of
varying size, so as to admit of a steak or chop at one time or half a fowl at
another, vegetables of different kinds being by the same means secured and cooked
in the upper portion of the boiler.
And when the lamps only are in use, a brilliant light is secured, and with
baskets of flowers placed in the lower rings, a handsome table decoration is
formed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. That it possesses great utility.
2. That whilst, at the same time continuing to give light, it is capable by the
same means of cooking in the specially constructed boilers placed over the lamps,
of cooking in every one of the compartments, in a thorough, expeditious and
cleanly manner, unaccompanied by the least odour from the oil consumed in the
lamp or lamps, the quantity of oil used is not materially increased so that the cost
of cooking is merely nominal.
3. That the alternative arrangement of the lamp or lamps permits of their use
for illumination and decoration as well as for cooking with equal facility and
completeness.
A. Z. GERMAINS.
R. S. GUTTERIDGE.