US641218A - Lamp-burner. - Google Patents

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S. B. MORSS., LAMP BURNER.

(Application led Aug. 24, 1899.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 641,218, dated January 9, 1900.

Application filed August 24, 1899. Serial No. 728,320. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN B. Mouse, a citizen of the United States, residing in .Rahway, Union county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamp-Burners, of which the following is a specication.

The object of the invention is to produce an even flame and increase the quality of the light from the burner; and the invention consists in a combined wick-tip and extinguisher comprising a flange or ring adapted to rest upon a wick and having a guide secured to and depending from the same to direct its vertical movement when lifted by the wick. The invention further consists in the novel details of improvement,that will be more fully hereinafter set forth and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had tothe accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, wherein- Figure l is a vert-ical cross-section of the upper portion of a lamp-burner embodying my improvements, and Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective views of the ilange or ring and its guide.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views, l and 2 indicate the concentric tubes of a centraldraft-lamp burner between which a cotton or other fibrous wick 3 is adapted to pass. The tubes l 2 constitute the wick casing or guide in a central-draftlamp burner, which may be of suitable or well-known construction and which it is not necessary to more fully illustrate and describe, it being understood that any suitable means may be provided for raising and lowering the wick.

4. is a perforated thimble, cone, or air-distributer, which may be of suitable or wellknown construction and adapted to fit within the tube l, being shown provided with a depending portion et for this purpose, so thatl thus act as an extinguisher of the flame, and the ilange or ring 5 has a guide 6, secured to and depending therefrom, which is shown in the form of a tube or sleeve adapted to fit within tube l, so as to rise and fall within the same. The size and shape of the part 4.ad of the thimble or air-distributert are suchthat it can fit within the guide or sleeve 6, and the thimble or air-distributer is also shown provided with an annular rib or flange 4b to rest upon the flange or ring 5, whereby the thimble or air-distributer will partake of the upand-down movement of flange 5 and its guide 6, and during such movements the latter is guided in tube l. By preference I make the flange 5 of metal, and it constitutes a tip for the wick, which covers the upper surface of the same and protects it from the flame, and the guide 6 also protects the inner surface of the wick from the flame. ln order to .allow the gases that generate at Jthe top of the wick to freely pass away and mingle with the flame, the flange or ring 5 may be perforated, as at 5a, which enables gases to pass through the apertures from the top surface of the Wick to the flame.

It will be understood that the thimble or cone 4 is supported upon the tubes l 2 through the medium of the flange 5 and that as the wick 3 is raised and lowered the flange 5, its guide 6, and. the thimble or cone 4 will be likewise moved by it. By this means an even amount of air will be distributed to the flame at all times. When the wick is raised above the tubes and lighted, the flamewill burn upon the outer surface of the Wick above tube 2, and the flange 5 will serve to keep the llame even or level on top, and the flange will also become heated, especially when made of metal, and will serve to assist in vaporizing the oil at the top of the wick, which vapor will mingle with the flame and cause the flame to burn more brilliantly and evenly, as the carbon in the vapor thus generated adds to the combustion of the oil `drawn up by the flame. When the wick is lowered even with or below the tops of the tubes, the flange or ring 5 will act to extinguish the llame. The flange 5, furthermore, serves to prevent smoke andlodor from arising when the wick is lowere ICO Having now described my invention, what I claim isl. A combined 'Wick-tip and extinguisher comprising a perforated flange or ring adapted to rest upon a wick and having a guide secured to and depending from the same to direct its vertical movement when lifted by the Wick, substantially as described.

2. A combined Wick-tip and extinguisher comprising a metal flange or ring adapted to rest upon a wick and having a guide secured to and depending from the same to direct its vertical movement when lifted by Jche wick, substantially as described.

3. rlhe combination of inner and outer Wickabove said flange, substantially as described. 25

STEPHEN B. MORSS.

Witnesses:

T. F. BOURNE, T. E. TURNER.

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