APPARATUS FOR LIGHTING FIRES FOR COOKING AND FOR OTHER DOMESTIC USES
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Sainty at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th April 1881.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
JOHN SAINTY, of Wisbech, in the County of Cambridge.
APPARATUS FOR LIGHTING FIRES FOR COOKING AND FOR OTHER DOMESTIC
USES."
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for lighting fires
for cooking and for other domestic uses.
The arrangement consists of the following parts:-A blowing apparatus, a lamp,
and cooking vessels, all of which are peculiar in their construction.
The blowing apparatus consists of a box with a lever handle mounted upon it,
and conveniently arranged to be worked by the hand with a reciprocating
movement in a vertical plane.
The lever gives motion to feed bellows within the box, and by this air is forced
into an expanding wind chest which is loaded by a weight or spring.
A valve prevents the wind passing back from the wind chest to the bellows.
At the end of the box, on the outside, there is a nozzle in connection with the
wind chest, and to this a flexible pipe is adapted to convey the wind to the lamp.
The lamp consists of an oil reservoir, a wick holder, and a blast tube. The first
is a vessel of any convenient size and form to contain a supply of paraffin or other
oil. The wick holder is an upright tube, square or oblong in form, and containing
a number of flat wicks, which being packed side by side fill the upper part of the
tube, the ends only of the wicks appearing. Beneath the wicks there is a spring
which presses them upwards, and they are prevented escaping from the top of the
tube by a flange around the mouth projecting inwardly. The oil reservoir
communicates with the wick holder by a passage or connection from the lower
part of the reservoir leading into the wick holder, about half way down, so that the
lower part of the wick holder remains full of oil so long as any is left in the
reservoir. The blast tube is fixed in an horizontal position upon the top of
the reservoir, and it is connected at one end with the flexible pipe bringing the
blast from the blowing apparatus. Its other end is so placed that the blast issuing
from it passes over the wick, and when the lamp is burning, propels forward an
horizontal beam or sheet of flame.

page_text: The lamp is carried upon a foot by an upright pillar on which a socket can
slide, and this socket has the lamp attached to it on one side. The whole
apparatus being portable, the connection between the blowing apparatus and the
lamp being flexible, and the lamp being upon an adjustable stand, the beam or
sheet of flame can be directed to any position. When the apparatus is used to
light a fire in an ordinary fire place, the flame from the lamp is directed between
the front bars of the grate. The grate need only be filled with coal, no wood or
other kindling is required. The cooking vessels which I employ have flat sides,
and the beam or sheet of flame is caused to play on the side in place of on the
bottom of the cooking vessel.
Some cooking vessels however I make with double bottoms, with a space between,
and with an opening at the side to admit of the beam or sheet of flame being
forced in between the bottoms of the cooking vessel.