US151195A

US151195A - Improvement in lamp-burners

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Publication number: US151195A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1874-05-26
Anticipated expiration: 1891-05-26

Description

A. BARKER.

Lamp-Burners.

PatentedMay 26,1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ABEL BARKER, OF WYOMING, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-,HALF HIS RIGHT TO ABE'IUS H. WINTON AND BENJAMIN H. THROOP, OF SCBANTON, PA.

IMPROVEMENT IN 'LAMP-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 151,195, dated May 26, 1874; application led February 23, 1874.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, ABEL BAEKER, of Wyoming, county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented `a new and useful Improvement in Lamp Tops or Burners, to prevent the oil which passes up the wick by ca pillary attraction, or through thejoint or screw connecting the lamp top or burner with the lamp, from overflowing and running down over the outside of the lamp; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specilieation, in which'- Figure I is a vertical section. Figs. II and III are transverse sections of the same, showing the cupsA and C, the chamber B with the openings (t t into it, the openin gs c c through the wick-tube to the wick, and the openings b b for the oil collected in the cup A to liow down the outside of the tube into the chamber B.

In constructing a lamp top or burner with this improvement around any kind of tube or chamber for the wick, I make the cup A to catch any overflow of oil from the top, either from imperfect combustion when the lamp is burning or bycapillary attraction when it is not. From this cup the oil is conducted down the outside of said tube into the chamber B, where, by holes through the wick-tube, or by making it in two sections, the overow communicates with the wick, by which it is absorbed, and again carried up by capillary attraction. To prevent the overflow fromthe screw or connection of the top or burner with the lamp, I put around the female screw, which is attached to the lamp, the cup or ring C, ex= tending any suitable distance above the connectiou, to receive any oil working up through the screw or running down from above, even with the top of that part of the connection at tached to the lamp. I make one or more holes in the male screw to allow the oil in the cup C to pass into the chamber B, whereby, coming' in contact with the wick through the openings c c in the Wick-tube, it is absorbed and carried up the same as the overflow from the top.

By this arrangement the oil is brought into direct contact with the wick, by which it is taken up, instead of being conducted back into the lamp through holes from which the gas would escape, or left to run down over the outside ot the lamp. This arrangement may be modified so as to adapt it to any of the lamptops now in use.

I do not claim the cup C; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of thecup A, having openings b b in its bottom, in combination with the chamber B,'having a close bottom and openings a, at into the cup G, and with the wick-tu be having openings c '0, substantially as :and for the purpose set forth. t

ABEL BARKER. f Witnesses:

C. WILLIAMS, EVEIEETT WARREN.