US97825A - Coenelius st - Google Patents

Description

i tlnedN gnam @met @dit his.

CORNELIUS ST. AJOHN AND CHARLES E. ,MAEsToH 0E CHARLESTCWN,

i MASSACHUSETTS;

Letters Patent No. 97,825, dated .December 14, 1869.

' IMPROVE!) `Moni: or' FORMING "BURNER-cones" or LAMPS.

w Y Theschedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

T90 whom it ""'l 00710 n: t y We prefer, however, to make the shell in one piece Be it known that We, CORNELIUS ST. JOHN and` by depositing the metal (preferably Copper) by means CHARLES E. MARSTON, both of 'Oharlestown, in the of a battery upon a paper or other mould or core, county of Middlesex, andState of Massachusetts, which can be removed after the shell is formed. have invented au yImprovement in Lamp-Burners; `The outer surface may be. plated with silver, or and we do hereby declare that the following, taken in other bright metal, to givel the surface `a desirable connect-ion with*` the drawings, which accompany .and lustre. formpart of this specification, is a description of our e denotes the flange, forsupport-ing the glass ch`im invention, sucient to enable those skilled inthe art hey, and f, the fingers, which' holdrthe-chimney in to practise it. j i place; and to slip the head upon the apge, the shell This invention has particular reference to the conmaybe formed with a ange, g, to slip under projecstruction of burne'recones, or dame-shields for kerosene tions, h, on the flange e. and other lamps;` and' A l It will beobvious that a burner-cone or shield thus The invention consists in forming such a shield in' made adds tothe ornamental appearance of a lamp, the shape of a hollow bust or thin shell, made to rep' and imparts anincreased marketable value to such resent a head or other figure, such shell being prefercones or4 shields over the common burner-cones. ably formed in' one piece by chemically depositing the The shell may/'be made of other ornamental ligure metal upon a suitable frame or core. or representation, and may be used as a llame tube or The drawing represents a shield, called in the trade burner without a wick tube, though we intend it more a cone or ,bul-nerpone, embodying-our invention. particularly as an vimproveminit `nponthe common a denotes an ordinary wick-tube, rising from the kerosenerburners. y screw-cap 71. l We claim, as a new artioleof manufacture, a flame- Y p c denotes the shield, which, as shown' i'n the drawshield or burner, made of a thin shell of metal, formed lings, is made with a surface representing' a figure-head, intoV shape `by electro-deposit of the metal upoua suite instead of being formed with a regular curved contour, able pattern. t as are all common burner-cones. The shield` -ishollow, and'has a ameforice, d,

opening'out of itsytop, and the shell may be-formed in Witnesses:

CORNELIUS ST. JOHN. CHARLES E. MARsToN.

parts, in separate dies, the parts being then joined to- J B. CROSBY, gether at their edges ,to form the whole shell; l FRANCIS GoULD.'

Images