US1069530A - Lighter. - Google Patents

Description

'H. D. COLEMAN.

LIGHTER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 23,1912.

71,069,530, Patented Aug.5, 1913.

UNTTED STATES PATENT @FFTCE.

HAMILTON DUDLEY COLEMAN, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

LIGHTER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAMILTON DUDLEY COLEMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lighters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to improvements in lighters for use in transmitting a flame from a match, or other source of heat, to the article to be ignited, whether it be a lamp wick, a gas jet, kindling wood, or other inflammable material.

My invention is intended to provide a safe and efficient lighter by which the flame may be transmitted through the desired distance, and thus reach the wick of a lamp, lantern or headlight, or the center of a grate, or any other location where the inflammable material is placed, without rendering it necessary to remove the lamp chimney, or to disturb the kindling; and, in case of use with explosive oils, whereby the fire may be lighted at a safe distance.

My invention will be more clearly understood by reference tothe accompanying drawings, in which the lighter is shown as applied for use with a kerosene lamp, it being especially adapted for this purpose.

Figure 1 shows a side elevation of the lamp, with the lighter placed in position after the lamp chimney has been applied. Fig. 2 is a detail section of a lamp burner showing a modified form of lighter; Fig. 3 is a detail view of the upper end of the lighter shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 1 is a similar view to Fig. 2, but shows the lamp lighter applied, in full lines through the screen at the base of the burner, and in dotted lines through an open ing between the lamp chimney and the side of the burner; Fig. 5 is a detail, on a larger scale, showing the lighter of Fig. 1; Fig. 6 shows the lighter in the form of a straight rod, especially adapted for use in kindling fires, or the like; and Fig. 7 illustrates a modified form of lighter provided with an offset wire for hooking over the top of a lamp chimney to support the lighter out of contact with said chimney.

The lighter is formed of any suitable inflammable material, such as celluloid or cot- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 23, 1912.

Patented Aug. 5,1913.

Serial No. 721,893.

ton, and may be provided with a stiffening wire core or with a projecting wire offset to support the inflammable material out of contact with a lamp chimney. The lighter may be in the form of a single straight rod, such as shown at 1 in Fig. 6, or this rod 1 may have a bent arm 2, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, t and 5. Figs. 25 show the lighter provided with a wire core 3'which preferably does not extend the full length of the rod 1, and is continued as at 1, partly extending through the bent arm 2, when such arm is provided. Beyond the end of the wire 3, in the rod 1, is a mass of celluloid, or similar inflammable material 5, which is completely consumed when the lighter has been fired.

In practice, when the lamp is cleaned, the wick trimmed, and the chimney put on, the lighter is put in place and left in site until it is desired to light the lamp, when a match is applied to the free end of the lighter, and the flame rapidly travels along the rod 1, reaching the part 5 and igniting the lamp wick. The inflammable shell will be burned away from the wire, and this may be either removed by hand, or may be left in place, without in any way affecting the efliciency of the lamp. It will be seen that it will be entirely unnecessary to remove the chimney, or to touch any part of the lamp, except possibly to turn the wick up in the usual way, after the lighter has been ignited; and it will also be noted that after the wick has been trimmed and turned up to the proper position for lighting, the lighter may be put in place, and may remain in position for an indefinite period, and yet always be avail able for lighting the lamp when desired.

To use the apparatus for lighting tires, a lighter with a bent end may be employed, if desired; but a straight, rod-shaped lighter would be ordinarily preferable, such as is shown in Fig. 6, in which case, the end 5 would be inserted at the spot where it is desired to start the fire, and the other end, protruding from the grate or kindling wood, could be readily ignited, as by applying a match.

The celluloid, or other inflammable material, may be applied to the wire stiffener in any convenient way, as by coating the wire with celluloid while the same is in a plastic condition, or by forming tubes of celluloid, and inserting the wire, or in any way that is most convenient.

The herein described lighter is especially suitable for lighting lamps, chandeliers, or the like, which are suspended from the ceiling, and which it is diflioult, and often clangerous, to take down for purposes of lighting same. All that is required is that the lighter shall be placedin position after the lamp is cleaned and the wick trimmed, and the lamp is put back in place. After the lighter is applied, the lamp can be lighted when desired, without removing same at all from its support, or disturbing the chimney in any way. It will also be evident that, the fire being laid, kindling wood prepared, etc.,

the lighter may be inserted, and would be available for use whenever it was deei red to start the fire.

Fig. 7 illustrates a modified construction, in which a stiffening Wire 9 is threaded through, or otherwise attached to, the strip of inflammable material 10., and provided with a bent or offset portion 11 for hooking over the top of a lamp chimney for supporting the inflammable portion of the lighter out of contact with said chimney.

WVhile any suitable inflammable substitute may be used for celluloid, I prefer celluloid, because it is cheap, highly inflammable, is not apt to blow out with ordinary movements of the air around the lamp or fire, and

because it does not leave any smoke, or other objectionable deposit, on the lamp chimney.

Instead of using the wire core, I may use a tube, rod, or strip of celluloid, or other in.- flammable material, substantially of the shape herein illustrated and described, but omitting the wire core.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is l. A lamp lighter comprising a rod of inflammable material, such as celluloid, bent near one end to engage a portion of the lamp, the said lamp lighter being adapted to conduct flame from some point exterior to the wick, substantially as described.

2. A lamp lighter comprising a rod of inflammable material, such as celluloid, bent near one end to engage a portion of the lamp, the said lamp lighter being adapted to conduct flame from some point exterior to the wick, and being provided with a stiffening core extending across the bent portion of the lamp lighter, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I a fiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

HAMILTON DUDLEY COLEMAN.

\Vitnesses M. I. Evans, A. E. SANOILL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G.

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