US1077527A - Sealing-wax lamp. - Google Patents

Description

E. GOSLINER.

SEALING WAX LAMP.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 6, 19 12.

7 1,077,527, Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

WITNESSES ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELKAN GOSLINER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

SEALING-WAX LAMP.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELKAN GOSLINER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SealingWaX Lamps, of which the following is a specification.

The hereinafter described invention relates to a new and improved lamp, particularly adapted for the burning of alcohol or other liquid fuel, and designed for the melting of sealing wax or the like, when the same is to be utilized in the sealing of letters or packages, and has for its principal object to provide a lamp having burners which are so constructed and arranged that the flame therefrom will thoroughly melt the wax when properly placed thereover, and the wax when melted will drop between the burners and onto the article to be sealed, and will in no way interfere with the burner flame.

Another and important object is to provide a lamp of the above type in which the burners thereof are so constructed as to be telescoped within the body of the lamp when not in use, and to be inclosed by the burner cover or snufling device.

A further and important object is to provide a lamp of the above character that is thoroughly eflicient for the purpose designed, is simple in construction, and one which may be manufactured at a small cost.

With the above mentioned. and other objects in View, the invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details of construction, within the scope of the appended claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any advantages of the invention.

To fully comprehend the invention reference should be had to the accompanying drawings in which is disclosed one form of my invention, wherein-- Figure 1 is a View in elevation of my improved lamp with the wick-arms telescoped within the fuel reservoir, and the cover positioned over the same. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but with the cover re- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

Application filed. August 6, 1912. Serial No. 713,552.

moved. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view with the wick-arms withdrawn from their telescoped position and extending over the side of the base in operative position. Fig.

4 is a top plan view with the arms withdrawn from their telescoped position and extending over the side of the base in operative position.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the reference numeral 1 indicates a suitable lamp base constructed of any suitable material preferably glass, and formed with a reservoir or well 2 adapted to contain the fuel to be burned and provided with a scalloped peripheral edge 3 and with a semi-circular cut-out 1, arranged preferably at one corner of the base. A plate 5 of a size and configuration of the well or reservoir 2 is adapted to be inserted within the opened end thereof, and close the same, and said plate is provided in its surface with a suitable opening 6, from the underside of which projects a tubular flange 7 provided on its lower edge with a peripheral laterally projecting flange 8 between which flange and the underside of the plate 5 is positioned a suitable packing 9. the same surrounding the tubular flange 7, and the peripheral edges thereof extending to the edges of the plate 5. The packing 9 is preferably of cork and is adapted to frictionally engagethe walls of the well or reservoir 2, and retain the plate in position thereover.

A tubular guide 10 is inserted a short distance within the opening 6 in the plate 5, the inner face of the tubular flange 7 frictionally engaging the outer face of the guide 10 and maintaining the same in position. The guide 10 is provided in its side face with a pair of parallel extending slots 11, arranged adjacent each other, and the upper end of the slots terminating in semicylindrical apertures 12 in the upper end of the guide 10.

T elescopically mounted in the tubular guide 10 is a pair of parallel spaced tubular wick-arms 12, united at their inner ends by the transverse member 13, and diverging from each other, and bent upwardly as at 14 at their outer ends. One of said arms is adapted to operate through each of the slots 11 in the guide 10, and when said arms are in their telescoped position within the guide 10 the curved portion 14 thereof rest-s against the edges of the apertures 12, and limits the downward movement of the arms into the well or reservoir 2.

A wick 15 is positioned in each wick-arm, and extends into the well or reservoir 2 and conveys the fuel therefrom through the wiclearms to the outer open ends thereof, that the same may be lighted and produce a flame for melting the wax.

The plate 5 is provided on its upper surface with an annular upstanding flange 16 which provides a seat for and is adapted to frictionally engage the inner walls of the lower open end of a cap 17, the same adapte ed to be positioned over the plate, when the wick-arms are in their telescoped position and provide a snufier for extinguishing the flame and a cover for the lamp.

A semi-circular cut-out 18 is formed in the flange l6, and the same provides a rest for the wick-arms when in their substantiallyhorizontal position and extending over the side of the base 1, as in Fig. 4 of the drawings. i

When it is desired to fill the well or reservoir with fuel, the tubular guide 10 is withdrawn from within the opening 6 in the plate, 5 and the fuel is permitted to enter therethrough; the annular upstanding flange 16 preventing any fuel that may be poured on the upper surface of the plate 5 from.

running over the base 1 of the lamp.

The parts being assembled as in the drawing, and it is desired to use the lamp, the operator removes the cover therefrom, slides the wick-arms upwardly through the openings in the top of the guide tube and swings the same downwardly in the slots in the side of the tube until the anus rest in the out-out 18 in the flange 16, the arms projecting over the semi-circular cut-out 4c in the lamp base 1, as in Fig. 4 of the drawings. The article to be sealed is positioned below the circular cut-out 4, and with the place to receive the sealing wax between the ends of the wick-arms, and it will be observed that the wax to be applied when held above the flame and between the ends of the wiclearms, that the melted wax will drop between the wick-arms and onto the article to which'it is to be applied, and the wax in dropping will in no way interfere with or extinguish the flame as is the case with the lamps of this character now in use. When the operator has finished with the lamp the flame may either be first extinguished, the arms then telescoped within the guide and the cover applied, or the arms may be telescoped within the guide with the flame burning and when the cover is applied the same will be extinguished or snuffed out.

In the employment of a lamp constructed as hereinbefore described a considerable saving of sealing wax is effected over the lamps now in use, as in the present device the wax when melted drops between the burners and onto the desired spot of the article to be sealed where it is needed, and is not dropped on several places of the article, or on the lamp as is the case with devices new in, use where the lamp is held in one hand and,

the wax in the other.

Havin thus full described in invention.

what is claimed as new and is desired to be protected by Letters Patent is l. A lamp of the character described, the

same comprising a base having a reservoir formed therein for receiving the fuel, a closure for said reservoir, and parallel spaced wick-arms telescopically mounted in said closure.

2. A lamp of the character described, the

same comprising a base having a reservoirformed therein for receiving the fuel, a clo sure for said reservoir, and parallel spaced wick-arms telescopically mounted in said closure and extending laterally over and be yond the edge of said base.

l. A lamp of the character described, the same comprising a base having a reservoir formed therein for receiving the fuel, a clo sure for said reservoir, and parallel spaced wick arms pivotally and telescopically mounted in said closure and adapted when in operative position to extend laterally over and beyond the edge of said base, and when in inoperative position to be teleseoped within said closure.

A lamp of the character described, the same comprising a base having a reservoir formed therein for receiving the fuel, a. closure for said reservoir, a guide tube removably mounted within said closure, and parallel spaced wick-arms pivotally mounted in said guide tube and adapted to extend lat erally over and beyond the edge of said base and capable of telescoping within said guide tube. V

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELKAN GOSIIINER.

Witnesses I HARRY G. To'rrnu, D. B. RICHARDS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C."

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