US31915A - Apparatus foe tbimming wicks - Google Patents

Description

A. R. TURNER.

Wick Trimmer.

No. 31.915. PatentedApriI'Z, 1861 9.5356 .9 In van?! onrrnn STATES rarer orrion.

ALFRED R. TURNER, OF MALDEN, MASSAGHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FOR TRIMMING- WIGK S.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 31,915, dated April 2, 1861.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, A. R. TURNER, of Malden, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus Used for the Trimming of the icks of Lamps, and that the following description, taken in connection wit-h the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvements, by which my invention may be distinguished from all others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent.

I11 the burning of lamps especially those intended for kerosene and sperm oils, it is very desirable that an even flame should be produced, which can not be the case, if the wicks of the same are not evenly trimmed.

Heretofore the wicks have usually been trimmed by hand, that is by .the use of the common shears, which mode was liable to soil the hands, deface or injure the clothes of the person and never could give that even ness of finish or trim which is so desirable in the burning of the lamps.

The present invention consists in a novel arrangement of mechanical devices to be used for the purpose of trimming the wicks of lamps and by means of which the same are always sure to be unerringly and rapidly cut, without being obliged to place the hands in contact with the same.

In the accompanying plate of drawings my improvements are represented as attached to the ordinary kerosene oil lamps and of which Figure 1 is a plan or top view, Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section and Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal vertical section.

a a represent the top portion of the lamps used for the burning of kerosene oil and made of the usual form.

I) is the wick passing through the wicktube of the lamp.

(Z is a frame susceptible of being placed upon the top end 0 of the tube the short tube 7 attached to the lower surface of the frame (Z fitting over the outside of the same. In this frame (Z is a knife 9 having a beveled edge or tapering from heel to point and which is secured to a sliding carriage h m0ving through a smtable way or passage 2' for the same. Thls carriageh to which the knife or blade 9 is attached as described, has a rectilinear motion imparted to it by means of the following mechanical devices; viZ.; is a standard of the carriage h in which works a horizontal screw is operated by a crank Z upon its outer end and which passes loosely through a standard m-of the frame (Z.

a is a cover turning upon a hinge 0 opening upon the top of the frame cZ, of equal usual means employed in kerosene oil lamps,

a suflicient distance for the trimming or cutting of the same by the knife 9 or above the lower horizontal surface of the way 2', is firmly and securely held by the edge 1 of the lip p and of the cover a, which when the cover is closed presses the top of the wick between the. same and the edge 1" of the frame (Z and also by means of the screw 8, passing through a bearing a" on the lower surface of the frame (Z, and pressing against the wick in the short tube 7. The knife g being of the tapering form herein described and represented in the drawings,by the turning of the screw 7: working through the standard j of the carriage h of the same, is then made to move in a rectilinear direction, passing over the lower horizontal surface of the way i, which thereby cuts or trims the wick rapidly and accurately and also imparts to the top of the same that evenness of trimming which is so desirable in the burning of kerosene and other oil lamps in order to produce a steady and even flame. The knife 9 is allowed to move a sufiicient distance to trim or cut the whole width and thickness of the wick and is replaced in proper position for cutting the wick of another lamp by merely reversing the movement of the screw Zr,- and the apparatus can be removed from the lamp after having turned back the screw 8 pressing against the wick.

It will be evident that the knife g and its carriage it may be made to move in a rectilinear direction or back and forth, by other consisting substantially of the knife g atmeans than those described, as for instance, 4 tached to a traveling carriage which is made it could be pushed forward With the hand to move back and forth in a horizontal plane and a spiral spring being attached to it, While the Wick is firmly held by any suitable 1.3 Would necessarily force it back to its origholding device during the cutting operation,

inal position. as set forth. 7

Having thus described my improvements, 1 ALFRED R TURNER What I claim as my invention and desire to i have secured to me by Letters Patent, is l Vitnesses:

The organized apparatus herein described JOSEPH GAVETT, 2 for trimming the Wicks of lamps, the same A. W. BROWN.

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