US117281A - Improvement in incense-burners - Google Patents

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UNrrnn Sra'rns PATENT @Erica E. WARREN HASTINGS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN INCENSE-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,281, dated July 25, 1871 antedated July 21, 1871..

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, E. WARREN HAsrrNcs, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Illuminators and Incense-Burners for Lodges, Theaters, and Societies, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my invention relates to an illuminator so constructed that the illuminating coml pound or powder used can be ignited instantaneously simply by the use of a movable lamp, as hereafter will be fully shown and described, the said illuminator also to serve the purpose of an incense-burner when not used as an illuminator.

On the drawing, Figure l is a side view. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is a plan of the inside of the urn as shown, with the covers b and c lifted off. Fig. 4is a plan ofthe cover b. Fig. 5 is a bottom view of Fig. l, and Fig. 6 is a side view of the lamp that is to be placed within the Aurn when used for incenseburning.

a, on Fig. 2, is an urn, the top of which is covered with two respective covers, b and c. The cover b has a spherical concavity, d, as shown on Figs. 2 and 4, which serves as a receptacle for the illuminating-powder or incense that lis used. In the spherical concavity d is xed a small bracket, e, having a hole through its vertical part that serves as a guide for the fuse f. The fuse fis laid in the bottom of the spherical concavity, and covered with the illuminating compound in the usual manner. The fuse is further put through the eye on the small bracket e and conducted downward through a small hole in the cover b on the right-hand side of the bracket e. The fuse is, still further down, guided by means of a small tube, g, iixed in a bearing in the body of the urn, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The fuse terminates a little below the lower end of this tube, as clearly shown' in Fig. 2. In the base of the urn is a lamp, It, suspended and movable in the following manner: In thc lower part ofthe base, Fig. l, is made a slot, t', wherein plays the projecting end ofthe slide Ak, as shown on Fig. 5. The said slide lc is supported by means of a pin or screw in its opposite end l in such a manner as to be moveable around this pin or screw as a fulcrum. The central part of the slide k is made as a circular box, m, serving as a support for the lamp h. The lamp h is placed in the position as shown on Fig. 2 when not used; but when it is desired to ignite the illuminatingpowder in the concavity d I simply move the slide le by touching the projecting' end 7a and moving it from the position indicated by the line X to the position Y, when the burning lamp IL comes directly under the lower end oi' the fuse j', which latter, being thus ignited, conducts the lire, through the pipe g and bracket e, to the illuminating compound in the concavity d. The cover c is lifted off when the urn is used for illuminating purposes. Vhen the urn is required for incense-burning I take away the lamp h and place instead of this one another, n, shown on Fig. o'. The incense is then placed in the same concavity d of the cover b, The cover c is then put on, and the smoke and fumes will arise through the perforations p lo p p in the cover c. Both the body of the urn and the cover b have holes for the purpose of admitting air freely to and from the interior.

Having thus described the nature, construc-

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