US490770A - Signal lamp or lantern - Google Patents

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LAWSON G. HUNTINGTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AND ROBERT J. ARMOUR, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

SIGNAL LAMP OR LANTERN.

SPECFICATION forming part of Letterslatent No. 490,770, dated January 31, 1893. Application iiled December 27, 1890l Serial No. 376,150. (No model.)

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Be it known that we, LAWSON G. HUNTING- TON, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, and ROBERT J. ARMOUE, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, citizens of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in SignalLamps or Lanterns, of which the following is a specication.

Our invention relates especially to lamps or lanterns bearing lenses, and has for its object the provision of a perforated air distributing plate, which may be removed for the purpose of cleaning, dac.

To attain the desired end, our invention consists essentially in a perforated plate, arranged to t the body of the lamp, below the lenses, between the air passages through the lamp body, and the burner, said plate being arranged to receive the removable oil pot, and

being either supported by a ledge formed or attached to the body of the lamp, or by a ring or cup into which the oil pot fits, all of which will be hereinafter first fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical, central sectional view of a lamp wherewith our invention is employed, and Fig. 2 is a plan View of the perforated plate, on an enlarged scale, shown as removed from said lamp body. Fig. 3 is a vertical central sectional view of a square lamp, having the opening in the side, and Fig. 4 is a plan view of the perforated plate and oil pot, shown as removed from said lamp body.

Like letters of reference, Wherever they oc-Y cur, indicate corresponding parts in all the gures.

A is the lamp body, provided with lenses, B.

C is the top of the lantern, either hinged, as in Figs l and 2, or secured to the side walls, as in Figs. 3 and 4.

D isthe carrying bail.

E is the bottom of the lamp body, provided with a supporting skirt, F.

G (Fig. l),is a circumferential bead, formed in the body A.

In the construction shown in Figs. l and 2, the removable perforated plate, H, has an opening in its center, and I is a cup or rin'g upon which said plate rests, or to which it 1s secured, for the purpose of supporting it; or

the ring or cup may be dispensed with, and

fixed upon the perforated plate, arranged to f receive the removable oil pot, J.

When constructed and arranged in accordance with the foregoing description, the advantages of our arrangement will be obvious.

Heretofore, in lamps or lanterns of the class to which our invention is applied, the perforated plate hasfbeen fixed and immovable, being secured to the Walls of the lamp; dirt,

dust &c Would enter the lamp beneath such plate, and drop upon its upper surface; oil would also loW, over and through the perforations, until finally the air requisite to support` combustion would be prevented from passing through the plate. In cleaning the same, only the top within the lamp body could be reached, and the under side of the plate could not be cleaned at all. By our invention, all this diijiculty is overcome; thevoil pot and plate can both be instantly removed, and all of the parts quickly and effectually cleaned.

Having now fully described our invention, what we claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination with a lamp or lantern body bearing lenses and having a closed bottom, of a removable perforated plate supported within the lamp body, as set forth, and o ing in which is seated a removable oi] pot, said ring or Cup, substantially as shown and substantially as shown and described. described.

3. In a lamp of the character herein speei- LAWSON G. HUNTINGTON. ed, having a closed bottom, the combination ROBERT J. ARMOUR. 5 With the removable perforated plate having Witnesses.:

an opening in its center, and a supporting ARTHUR M. PIERCE,

ring or cup, of a removable oil pot seated in T. NELSON SCOTT.

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