Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
date: label: patent date
content: 1882-05-30
name: label: patentee
content: Pearce, Henry F.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by Henry F. Pearce of Hyde Park, Pennsylvania that received patent number 258,803 on May 30, 1882. Pearce claimed as his invention “a cap for a miner's lamp having a lining arranged to form a space and having the annularly-located perforations, whereby none of the perforations in the lining directly communicate with the vent in the cap” to prevent the escape of the oil through the vent and the closing of the vent by the gumming of oil or sediment.
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content: Work and Industry: Mining
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content: Mining Lamps
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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-9746
label: accession number
content: 088881
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-9746
label: patent number
content: 258802
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, oil, cap, miner's
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model