US434929A

US434929A - William c

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Publication number: US434929A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-08-26
Anticipated expiration: 1907-08-26

Description

(No Model.)

W. G. HOMAN.

WIGK ADJUSTING DEVICE.

No. 484,929. Patented Aug. 26, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIAM C. I-IOMAN, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO EDIVARD I MILLER & COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WlCK-ADJUSTING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,929, dated August 26, 1890.

Application filed March 6, 1890- Serial No. 342,919, (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: My device, as shown, is a band E, of resili- Be it known that I, VILLIAM C. HOMAN, a cut wire or other material, bent into the form citizen of the United States, residing at Meriof a circle, with overlapping ends and proden, New Haven county, Connecticut, have vided at its extremities with radially-project- 5 invented a new and useful Improvement in ing portions 6 e. The circle is of such a nor- VVick-Adjusting Devices, of which the followmal circumference as to hug the wick with ing is a specification. sufficient force to secure its adhesion to the My invention relates to that class of wicksleeve when the latter is vertically adjusted. adjusting devices used in Argand lamps in To wick the lamp, slip the wick D over the 10 which a tubular wick encircles a verticallysleeve C, as usual, open the clamp or band E, movable sleeve, and is intended to provide and abut the projecting portions 6 6' against a cheap and effective means of securing the each other, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawwick to the sleeve. ings, pass the clamp E over the wick to its In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is proper place, and release the ends 6 e" from 15 an elevation of an Argand lamp partly broken contact, when the clamp will, because of its away to show the interior mechanism. Figs. resilience, contract to the form shown in Fig.

2 and 3 show the wick-clamp detached from 2 and clasp the wick D to the sleeve C, as

the lamp. required. To remove the clamp from the wick, The same letters refer to like parts in the press the ends e 6 together with the finger 20 several views. and thumb, thereby increasing the circum- A designates a lamp fount or body; B, an ference of the clamp E and allowing it to be inner wick-tube; C,a wick-adjusting sleeve; easily slipped from the wick. I do not of C',adraw-bar; D,awick;E,awick-clamp, and course consider myself limited to the parc c radially-projecting ends of the clamp E. ticular form of construction or material shown 2 5 The example of myinvention shown in the or described.

drawings is constructed and operated as fol- WhatI claim as myinvention, and desire to lows: The lamp-fount A, inner wick-tube B, secure by Letters Patent of the United States, and wick-adjusting sleeve C may be of usual is as follows: or any convenient form. The wick D is 1. A wick-clamp of resilient material sub- 0 slipped over sleeve C and so as to have fricstantially in the form of a circle, with ends tional contact therewith. This frictional con-. normally overlapping and adapted to abut tact is seldom sufficient when the lamp is in against each other when the clamp is opened, service and the wick saturated with oil to sesubstantially as described. cure the adhesion of the Wick to the Verti- 2. A wick-clainp of resilient material sub- 35 cally-moving sleeve. It has therefore been stantially in the form of a circle, with radicustomary to provide the sleeve with outally-projectingendsnormallyoverlappingand wardly-projecting teeth or the like adapted adapted to abut against each other when the to engage with the wick. These are objecclamp is opened, substantially as described. t-ionable, as apt to tear the wick and as inter- 3. A wick-clamp formedof one piece of re- 0 fering with the removal of the old wick when silientwire substantially in the form of a'cira fresh oneis necessary. Instead of orin adcle, with ends normally overlapping and dition to these teeth, bands or clamps of vaadapted to abut against each other when the rious forms have been provided. These have clamp is opened, substantially as described. been secured to the Wick-sleeve or provided 45 with a lock for attaching their ends together. IVM. C. HOMAN.

These are objectionable, as requiring more WVitnesses: skill to detach and reattach than is possessed GEO. L. COOPER, by many inexpert consumers. LEWIS E. FROST.