US102897A - Improvement in lamp-burners - Google Patents

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-H. J.WHIT.E.' Lamp-Chimney Holder.

- N0. 102,891. Patented May 10; 1870.

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HIRAM J. WHITE, OFBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 102,897, datezl'May 10, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAMP-BURNERS.

The Schedule referred to in these' Letters Patent and making part of the same.

drawings, of which- Figure l is a front elevation.'

Figure 2 a top view, and

Figure 3 a transverse section of a burner provided with my said invention, which has particular reference .to the cone, or deflector and the cliimney-supporter.

Figure 4 is a top view, and

Figure5 a side elevation of the (-himneysnpportcr separate from the cone, or deflector.

Figure 6 is'a side elevation of the tor. t t

The chimneyssupporter is represented at A, as ai fixed to thewick-tube B, and the screw-cap C.

This latter sustains the wick-tube and the wick-ch vator shown at D.

The support-er A encompasses the cap 0, and is concavo-convcx, or dished, and formed with a neek,N, to receive the chimney.

This neck not only has a flange, a, for the chimney to rest on, but is constructed with a rebate, 1), arranged at the top of the neck, and extending entirely about the supporter.

That part of the neck, N, which-is between the flange, (I, and the rebate, 11, is perforated with aserics ot' vcrticalnnd horizontal saw-slits, c and d, the vcrtical ones, or those at right angles with the rebate, being extended through the base 0 and up to the neck f of the rebate. Above the said rebate, and between it and the head 1 the supporter is perforated with a series of tine holes, or, in other words, is fin'aniinous.

Every neck section h which extends down from the rebate, and is insulated from the lip or flange a, is bent outward beyond the next adjacent sections in manner as IOIHCSClltOd, in order that it may constitutea spring to receive and hold or steady a glass chimney, when cncmnpassing the supporter and resting on the lip a.

Two studs,"t 'i, projected from opposite sides of the neck of therebate, serve as guides for determining the correct position of the cone or deflector, while being applied to the sup iiorter, such cone, or deflector har-v ing two notches 7: It made in its base to receive such studs.

I nrthermore, the base part I of the cone, or doflector, formed in manner as shown in the drawings, is intended to close and fit upon the neck of the rebate, and for this purpose is slitted vertically, at intervals as represented, in order that it may be sprung closely upon such neck.

The width of the base of the rebate, however, it

considerably greater than the thickness of the part, I

in order that the air may pass up through the slits 0 the base part of the rebate, and flow around the has of the cone or deflector, and pass into the clnmne when in the supporter.

The cone, or air-deflector, is furnished with twl handles or projections in in, arranged soas to pro ect from opposite parts of it, and near its base, in marine: as exhibited in the drawings.

These handles, or projections, greatly facilitate thi removal of the cone from the supporter, or their sep aration; for, by placingthe thumb and fore-fingerot tln hand of a person on these handles, force may by ap plied to the deflector to good advantage by the hand whether for lifting the deflector off the supporter o for putting it upon the neck of the rebate.

The construction of the chimney-supporter A, n manner as described, renders i t peculiarly advanta geous, not only for holding and sustaining the chnnne and the cone or deflector, but for supplying air to tin wick. It also admits otthe supporter being cash; and cheaply constructed. D

I am aware of the chinitrey-supporter as shown 11 the United States Patent No. 74,403, to Mullally and, therefore, make no claim thereto, it having ase ries of thin springs extending around it with vertiea slits and air-holes between them.

In my cliimney-supporter I have a series at sue. springs, each being formed by making two vertlca slits and one horizontal slitin the supporter, and bend ing outward the intermediate part so as to extend 1 from the body of the supporter, and have air-passage: through such body and about the splin l urthermorc, each spring is separated from tln next by an intervening part of the supporter, and eacl spring is insulated from the flange (0 for supporting the chimney; whereas, in the supporter of Mullally the chimney is wholly supported by the sprin".

A. chhoney-supporter madeon my plan is'not onh much stronger than the other, but better in other re spects.

I therelbre claim myimyn-oved lampchimney sup porter N, as having its spring it formed by vertica and horizontal air-passages or slits c d in the body and arranged with reference to the rest of the bed; as specified, and as provided with the supporting-flangt a, insulated from the springs, as

I also claim the cone, or deflector, as made with th slittcd base, the notches 7;, and the handles m an, ar-

- anged on its opposite sides as represented.

HIRAM J. \VHITE.

Wi tnesscs:

R. H." Envy, J. R. Snow.

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