Improvements in and relating to Cycle and other Lamps and Lanterns.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 10th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 25th May. 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Cycle and other Lamps and
Lanterns.
HENRY EBENEZER HUNT, 71 Bridge Street, St. Georges, Norwich, Gas
Engineer, etc. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to Improvements in, and relating to, Cycle-and other-
Lamps and Lanterns, and has for object so to construct such lamps and lanterns
that they shall be readily and easily lighted without the rider dismounting, and
without occasioning the necessity of opening the lamp or lantern.
In accordance with this my invention I form the lamp or lantern, either upon the
burner or wick tube itself, or in any other convenient position for the purpose inside
the lamp or lantern, with a match striker which may be of metal or other suitable
material preferably made with a roughened or serrated surface for facilitating the
striking and lighting of ordinary matches, wax vestas, and the like, thereupon.
Or the striker plate may be adapted for the use of what are commonly termed
'safety matches" by having the rubbing surface similar to that employed upon the
boxes or containers of such "safety matches." In one of the sides of the lamp or
lantern, I form, in a convenient and suitable position, an aperture through which
the match is to be inserted when it is desired to light the lamp or lantern. To light
the lamp it is only necessary to insert the match through the aforesaid aperture
in the side and conduct it to the wick. In its passage it is rubbed or pressed against
the "striker" plate above referred to, and is thereby ignited and upon reaching
the wick effects the lighting thereof.
By my invention as above described the operation of lighting a lamp or lantern
is much facilitated; the device moreover, is simple and inexpensive, and it will be
found of very great advantage in its use or employment upon velocipedes, carriages,
and other vehicles. It will also be found of equal advantage, more especially in
windy or inclement weather, when applied to hand lamps and lanterns.
Dated this 8th day of Jul 1893
JAMES
STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, W.C., Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Cycle and other Lamps and
Lanterns.
1, HENRY EBENEZER HUNT, of 71 Bridge Street, Norwich, Gas Engineer, 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 :-
My invention has for object to so construct lamps and with especial reference to
those for cycles and other vehicles as to allow of their being lighted with great
facility and without necessitating the rider (especially in the case of cycles)
dismounting; as also, avoiding the necessity for opening the lamp or lantern in
order to light the wick of same.
And in order that my invention may the better be understood, I have appended
the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Figure 1 is a front view of a cycle lamp having my improved device:

page_text: Figure 2 is a back view of the burner, shewing more particularly the striker a
hereinafter referred to; and,
Figure 3 is a part side view of lamp shewing more particularly the aperture
hereinafter referred to through which the match is entered.
In accordance with my improvements, I provide the lamp or lantern, either upon
the burner or the wick tube, itself, or in any other convenient position for the
purpose, inside the lamp or lantern, with a match striker a, which may be of metal
or other suitable material and preferably having a roughened or serrated surface to
facilitate the striking and lighting of ordinary matches, wax vestas and the like,
thereupon. Or, the striker plate a might be such as to allow of the use of
what are known as "safety matches," which would be ensured by having the
rubbing surface similar to that formed upon the boxes or containers of such
"safety matches."
In one of the sides of the lamp I form as at b (Figure 3) and in any suitable and
convenient position, an aperture through which the match is entered when it is
desired to light the lamp or lantern, to effect which it is only necessary to pass the
match through the aperture baforesaid in the side (or other convenient position) of
the lamp to the wick. The match in its passage is rubbed or pressed against the
striker plate a above referred to, when it becomes ignited, and on reaching the lamp
wick, effects the lighting of same.
By means of my invention as above described, the operation of lighting a lamp
or lantern is greatly facilitated; the device moreover, is simple and inexpensive,
and will be found very advantageous when employed for velocipedes, carriages and
other vehicles. It will also be found to be a very useful adaptation to hand lamps
and lanterns generally, especially in windy or inclement weather.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood
that I am aware it has already, previously to the date of my invention, been
proposed to light the wick of a lamp without opening the lamp, and therefore, I
make no claim broadly in respect of this: but I declare that what I claim is :-
:-
In cycle or other lamps or lanterns lighted without opening same, the employment
of the striker or striking plate a and aperture 6 as and for the purposes herein
described and shewn.
Dated this 10th day of March 1894.
VICTOR LAZARUS,
1, Furnival Street, Holborn, E.C., Agent for Applicant.