Patent ID: 8763926

Claim:
An apparatus for creating an oil lamp lighting effect, comprising: a receptacle with an inner surface defining a basin for containing a volume of liquid; a nozzle extending into the receptacle a height above the inner surface; a liquid input manifold for directing pressurized liquid to an inlet of the nozzle, wherein the nozzle has an outlet ejecting the pressurized liquid received at the nozzle inlet vertically upward; a light source operable to output light into the liquid input manifold, whereby the output light illuminates the pressurized liquid received at the inlet and ejected out of the nozzle outlet; and a drain line in the receptacle with an inlet at a height above a base of the inner surface for receiving the liquid in the basin having a depth greater than the inlet height, wherein the nozzle outlet is at a height that is less than the height of the inlet such that the pressurized liquid ejected out of the nozzle travels through a portion of the liquid in the basin.