Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
date: label: patent date
content: 1872-05-07
name: label: patentee
content: Winfield, William C.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by William C. Winfield of Hubbard, Ohio that received patent number 126,606 on May 7, 1872. The patent claims as its invention “securing the lid or cap of the ordinary ‘miners' lamp’ to its body through the medium of screw-threads in the cap and on the neck of the lamp, the cap being furnished with an elastic packing-disk, air-chamber, and openings for the ingress of air.”
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content: Work and Industry: Mining
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content: Mining Lamps
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Natural Resources
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-MN-9753
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-9753
label: accession number
content: 088881
label: patent number
content: 126606
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, cap, mining
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 6.35 cm x 8.255 cm x 4.445 cm