US111274A - Improvement in lamp-burners - Google Patents

Description

A. TA PLIN.

Lamp Burner.

Patented Jan. 24, 1871.

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ALVIN TAPLIN, 'OF FORESTVILLE, ASS IGNOR TO THE BRISTOL BRASS 'ANDCLOCK COMPANY,.OF BRISTOL, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 111,274, dated January 24, 1871,

IMPROVEMENT IN LAMP-BURNERS.

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

To all whom it may conceril 7 Be it known that I, ALVIN TAPL N, of Forestville, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a .new and useful Improvement in Lamp-Burners; of which the .foilowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a plan; and

Figure 2, a vertical section of a lampsburner constructed in. accordance with my improvement. I

Figure 3 is a plan of the cap plate or body and cone of the deflector detached; and V Figure 4, a plan of an independent slitted and elastic under plate, for use in combination with said upper or body and cone plate.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. My invention, which is'here shown as'applied to a sun-burnei',-consists in the construction of the deflector in two parts or pieces, that is to say, of an upper or body and coneplate that mayrnade ofany desired strength or stifl'ness without regard to the fit of the chimney, and of an independent and elastic under plate fringed or slit at its edges which project beyond the edges of the upper plate to provide for its expansion and contract-ion and fit of different sized chimneys over it.

By this construction. the body and cone of the deflector may be of a given and tolerably stout thickness of metal, while its circumferential portion may be of thinner metal and so have the necessary elasticity to provide for its contact with the chimney, and the radial slits'made in it are arranged under cover, for the interior "portions of their length, by the upper plate orbody of the deflector, which admits of a very open constructionof the slitted portion without allowiug of a too free supply of air through the slits. Additional strength is also obtained; and

The invention further consists in a peculiar 0011-. struction of the under or elastic plate of the deflector, which is made to clip the wick-tube on opposite sides and whereby the deflector is stayed laterally and the conduce to the strength and durability of the structure, while the under plate or ring D which is of larger diameter, so as to extend beyond the upperplate and establish contact. with the chimneyas the latter is fitted over it, may be of thinner metal to "obtain for it or its wings I), as formed by radial slits c in it, that desirable elasticity which" will provide in a soft and easymanner for the fit of the chimney over the deflector, and for its accomodating itself to differentsized chimneys.

Said slits c, which also serve to allow of air passing throughthem to the improvement of the light, when such supply is not too copious, maybe made free or large, thereby adding to the elasticity of the wings and preventing their contact without giving a too free supply, of air by reason of the inner portions of said slits being under cover of the upper plate D. 1 The under plate D also serves to stiffen the body and cone plate D, and maybe united therewith bygrooving, as at (Z d, and by the rails or posts E, which connect the baseAwith the deflector, and tie the structure in a vertical direction, as it were.

'lo tie or bind. it laterally as well, I forur the under deflector-plate D with oppositely-arranged interior clips or slotted projections ff, which fit' on .or over the opposite edges of the wick-tube C, thus uniting the deflector with the wick-tube near its top andstaying both. i

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-, i

1. The deflector, composed of two plates, the upper one, D, of which forms its body and the cone, while the under and elastic plate, 1), of larger diameter, is slitted to form wings I) at its periphery, with the rear portions of the slits undercover of the upper plate,

.substzintially as specified.

2. The slotted and elastic deflector-plate 1), constructed with clips or' slotted projections f f, ar-

ranged to fit opposite edges of the wick-tube,- essentiallyas and for the purpose or purposes herein set forth.

. ALVIN v TAPLIN.

Witnesses: DAN. A. MILLER, CHAUNoY- Goomncn.

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