US865950A - Candle-lamp. - Google Patents

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No. 865,950. PATENTED SEPT. 10, 1907.

F. A. SOHUBTZ. CANDLE LAMP.

APPLICATION FILED we. a. 1906.

- forced upwardly by the spring 15, advancing as rapidly UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK ADAM SCHUETZ, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE ADA-MS & WESTLAKE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

CANDLE-LAMP.

No. 865,950. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 10, 1907.

Application filed August 6,1906. Serial No. 329,390.

To all whom it may concern: A plate 26 is located above the member 1'7 of the lamp Be it known that I, FRANK ADAM SCHUETZ, a citizen body, is slightly less in diameter than the interior diamof the United States, and a resident of Chicago, county eter of the chimney 25, and is carried in any suitable of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain manner, as shown by means of arms 27 rising from the new and useful Improvements in Candle-Lamps, of lamp body. Plate 26 is provided with a central oblong which the following is a specification, and which are aperture. At each end of this aperture there is an inillustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a standing flange 28, 29, which is inclined downwardly. part thereof. At each side of the oblong aperture, and parallel there- The object of the invention is to provide a lamp, the with, the plate is slotted, the portion between each slot fuel supply of which is in the form of a candle; the and the oblong aperture being inclined upwardly and object of the invention being to provide for better cominwardly, as shown at 30, 31; and the portion of 'the bustion and illumination than has heretofore been at plate bounding the outer edge of each of these slots tained in candle lamps, the invention consisting in the being also inclined upwardly and inwardly, as shown. structure hereinafter described and which is illusat 32, 33, this arrangement providing upwardly and intrated in the accompanying drawings, in which wardly directed air-ports between the lips 30 and 32,

Figure 1 is a vertical central section through the and the lips 31 and 33, for directing air-currents upon the lamp; Fig. 2 is a detail section on the line 22 of Fig. flame rising from the upper end of the wick Y. The 1; Fig. 3 is a vertical central section through the-burner downwardly inclined lips 28, 29, at the end of the cenof the lamp, the chimney support being removed; and tral oblong aperture, obstruct the air currents and allow Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the lamp. the flame to spread, thereby givingit a flat form, this The lamp is provided with an arm 10, recessed as form being further developed by the air-currents dishown at 11, to fit upon a suitable wall bracket 12. rected'upon it through the ports referred to. This body portion consists of a tube 13 carried by the The plate 26 being of less diameter than the chimarm 10, and open at the bottom for the reception of a ney 25, there is an upflow of air sweeping the inner surcandle which is seated on a plate 14 carried by an eX- face of the chimney and keeping it clean. A canopy pansion spring 15, re-acting against the cap 16 fitted 34 may be located above the upper end of the chimney to the lower end of the tube 13. The upper portion of 25 to at h the free arbo given ff in the lamp. This the lamp-body comprises an extension 17 of the tube canopy is shown as supported on a rod 35 rising from 13, and is shown of slightly greater diameter than the the arm 10. same, its upper end being contracted to form an aper- Thi improved lamp insures a comparatively large ture of slightly less diameter than the diameter ofthe nd fl t flame, which is comparatively white and hence candle X intended to be used in the lamp. The lamp, l luminous, and burns with very little flickering, and is so far as it has been describechis of ordinary form. not a ily di turbed by draft The candle being inserted within the lamp body is I claim as my invention:

, 1. In a candle lamp, in combination, a candle tube as 1t 15 consumedhaving a contracted orifice at its upper end, a centrally The lower P01131011 0f the body member 17 is SOIIl G- apertured plate above and spaced apart from the end of What enlarged forming an annular h b 18 th the tube, and having ports at opposite sides of its central walls inclosing this chamber being perforated, as shown aperture the f t Walls of Such ports hemg upwardly and inwardly directed. at 19, and there belng also perforations 1n the member In a Candle lamp in cbmbination, a tubular body 17 above this Chamber: as shown 91320 thereby P having a contracted orifice at its upper end, a plate above ing for a circulation of air around the candle to prevent and spa d ap from the y a d having a central aperit from becoming softened below its upper end. The with m'standmg P lnclmed flanges at allery 22 tubular in form rises from the enlar ed porapposite i thef'eof Smd plate bemg ported at the re' 7 mammg sldes of its central aperture. tion of the body member 17, and is of greater diameter than the upper part thereof, and is freely perforated, as FRANK A HUE shown at 23, for the inflow of air to snpport combustion. Witnesses At the upper end of this gallery is fixed a slotted band HEINES,

24 for carrying the glass chimney 25 Wn. S. HANN.

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