US410238A - Lincoln gerhardt - Google Patents

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LAMP OR LANTERN LIGHTING DEVICE.

Nb.410,238. Patented Sept.3,1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LIN OOLN GERHARDT, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

LAMP OR LANTERN LIGHTING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,238, dated September 3, 1889.

. Application filed December 11, 1888. Serial No. 293,263. (No model.)

My invention relates to improvements in lighting devices for lanterns or lamps in which the chimney is perforated to permit the introduction of a match therein; and the objects of my improvement are to provide lanterns or lamps of this class with simple and inexpensive means to permit a match to be ignited within the chimney, and thereby sheltered from the wind. I attain these objects 4 by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section of a lantern provided with a match-lighting device constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of a lamp also provided with means to light it in accordance with my invention. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a portion of the chimney or globe supporting plate, showing the friction-plate and the globestopper attached thereto. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the friction-plate and its support detached.

In said drawings,A represents an oil-reser Voir provided with a burner B, having a slot 1) in'the top thereof for the passage of the wick O and of the flame fed thereby. Said burner has a perforated horizontal plate D, as usual, upon which rests the globe E of a lantern or the chimney E of a lamp. The globe is retained in a vertical position by means of wires e, encircling its upper end and attached to the frame of the lantern, and the chimney of the lamp is retained by means of springfingers e attached to theburner or to its baseplate.

To permit the wick of the burnerto be lighted without removing or detaching the globe from its support and igniting a match within said globe, and have it thus protected from the wind that may be blowing, the globe has a perforation f made in its side substantially upon a horizontal line passing through the slot 73 of the burner. Said perforation, being fullya quarter of an inchin diameter, permits the lighting end of a match m to be readily introduced'into the globe at that point and pushed in until it comes in contact with the wick.

To light the match within the globe, there is attached to the burner or to its base-plate D a serrated or frictional surface in the form of a light rectangular plate g, having its ends bent down andprovided with a tongue g that the burner and clinched against the under side thereof. As the plate g has its two ends sheet metal, as tinned sheet-iron, which, is inexpensive and easily perforated to produce a rasp-like surface. The top of the-plate g is provided with a surface of emery made to adhere thereto or with a rasp-like surface; ,or the long edges of the top of the plate 9 may be bent over to form grooves to receive the edges of a plate g having a rasp-like surface made by partly punching the metal of said plate orotherwise.

To prevent the wind from entering the globe of the lantern through the perforation f, a

the same level as said perforation by means of awire e attached in the middle of its length to said shutter and having its ends inserted in perforations of the plateD and bent overto clasp it. When used on a lamp, the shutter h is attached to one of the clampingfingers c of the burner. When it is desired to light the lamp or lantern, the globe is rotated a short distance until its perforation f comes in line with the frictional surface 9 and with the slot 1) of the burner. A match is then inserted and rubbed upon said rough surface. It then becomes ignited and is pushed forward until it comes in contact with the wick and ignites the latter. The match is then withdrawn and extinguished and the globe rotated a small portion of a turn until the perforation f coincides with the stationary shutter h.

I am aware that lamp-burners have been provided with a tube entering through the. bottom thereof and that a frictional blade has been attached to the end of said tube,

shutter h, preferably circular, is retained on is inserted in perforations of the plate D or of v secured to its support, it can be made of thin against Which one end of a match can be forced to ignite it, but they differ from my construetion.

Having now fully described .iny invention, I claim 1. A lamp-burner in Which one of the ch imey-retaining springs is provided with an enlarged portion adapted to cover an aperture formed in the chimney or globe, in combination with a chimney or globe provided with an aperture in the side and adapted to be turned, substantially as described. v

2. The combination of an oil-reservoir, a lamp-burner and its glass globe provided with a perforation therein on the same level with said burner, a frictional plate secured at both of its ends to the globe supporting plate of LINCOLN eERnARnT.

WVitnesses:

E. E. MAssoN, HARRY L. AMER.

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