US368698A - Adolfo saenz yanez - Google Patents

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A. s YANEZ. LAMP AND WIGK THEREFOR.

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' ADOLFO sAENZ YAnEZ, on HAVANA, CUBA.

LAMP AND WICK THEREFOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,698, dated August 23, 1887. Application filed November 1, 1886. Serial No. 217,724. (No m del.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLFO SAENZ YASIEZ, of Havana, Cuba, at present residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Lamps and WVicks therefor, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention more particularly relates to lamps for burning various kinds of hydrocarbon fluids and oils, in which a compound wick is used composed of an ineombustible tip-piece of mineral or refractory material and a cotton or other like fibrous wick or wicksection for feeding the burning fluid or oil to said tip-piece; and the invention consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be hadto the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1' represents a side elevation of a lamp embodying my invention, with a shade, shown only in part, applied'thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of the upper portion of my improved lamp with shade omitted. Figs. 3 and 4 are longitudinal views, in planes at right angles with each other, of the compound wick and its holder; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing a modified construction of the incombustible tip-piece'or upper section of the compound wick.

A is the reservoir of the lamp, here shown as a hand one, but which might be a table or other description of lamp, and, so far as its reservoir and other ordinary parts are concerned, may be made of any suitable material. B is the lamp-top, and O the burner, provided with the usual cone, b, perforated diaphragm c, and having an enlarged lower neck,

(1, which is fitted to screw up and down within or through the lamp top, cap, or ring 13, for a purpose that will be hereinafter described. The burner O is or may be also provided with a stand or support for the shade D of the lamp, and is fitted with a short wick-tube, 6, here shown as a flat one and as arranged to project up within the cone 1), as usual.

E is a wick tip or section of fiat or slab form, to fitfreely within the tube e, and made of bath-brick, unglazed porcelain, or other like porousincombustiblematerial. Thistip piece or section is the portion of the wick which supplies the flame, its porous character providing for the upward passage through it of the burning gases or vapors supplied by the oil or fluid in the reservoir A. It is held in place within the tube e, above and below which it projects, and is inserted or removed, as required, therein or therefrom by means of a pinchers-like clip or clamp, F, adapted to receive the lower portion of said tip-piece within it and of a transverse tubular construction at its base f,which is open above to expose the lower end of the tip-piece E within it. Through this hollow or tubular base f a cotton or other like fibrous wick or wick-section, E, is doubled and descends into the reservoirA below to supply the oil or burning-fluid by capillary attraction to the porous incombustible tip-piece E, which rests upon the upper end portion of the wick or wick-section E. The upper portion of the clip or clampvF is composed of two opposite side cheeks, interrupting at their lower ends the continuity of the tubular base f. The two sections E E form a compound wick, which is indestructible .by reason of the incombustible character of the porous earthenware tip-piece E, to which the oil or fluid is freely supplied by the capillary action or property 01' the fibrous wick or wick-section E.

Fig. 5 of thedrawings shows a modification of the incombustible tip-piece E, which is eonstructed with a passage, 8, in its upper part, said passage consisting of a lower transverse tubular opening extending throughout the width of the tip-piece, with a kerf bisectiug the thickness of the tip-piece from the top edge down to said tubular opening.

The wick clamp or holder F fits loosely or freely within the tube 6, and is supported at a fixed or given altitude by a rod, 9, resting below upon the base of the reservoir A. To regulate the flame, or to expose or project, as required, the tippiece E above the tube e, or to extinguish the flame, if necessary, the burner O is turned to the right or left, so as to screw or unscrew its lower neck, (1, up or down within the fixed top B, and thereby to raise or lower the tube 6 to any desired distance above or below, if desired, the upper end of the stationary tip-piece E of the wick.

Having thus described my invention, what I within and through it an upper porous incombustible tip-piece and lower fibrous doubled wick or wick-section, upon which the tip-piece rests, the wick clamp or holder F,

composed of a tubular passage, f, at its base and upper opposite side cheeks, interrupting at their lower ends the continuity of the tubular base-passage, essentially as shown and described.

2. The burner 0, provided with a wicktube, 0, and lower screw-neck, d, in combination with the lamp top or cap 13, having'a screw-thread adapted to fit said screw-neck,

the lamp-reservoir A, and the holder F of the wick, adapted to fit freely within the wick tube, and provided with a lower support or rod, substantially as and "for the purposes herein set 'forth.

8. The porous incornbustible tip-piece E of the wick, constructed with a passage, 8, in its upper part, consisting of a lower transverse tubular opening extending throughout the width of the tip-piece, with a kerf bisecting' the thickness of the tip-piece from its top' edge down to said tubular openipg.

ADOLFO SAEN Z YANEZ. Witnesses:

EDGAR TATE, C. SEDewIoK.

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