Improvement in Glass Globes or Reservoirs for Lamps.
Description
Patent for an "invention to prevent the breaking of glass globes used in kerosene lamps as reservoirs for the burning fluid; and this invention consists in the application around the reservoir of a rubber ring let into a groove, but projecting sufficiently to receive the concussion in case the lamp is overthrown." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
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Titles
Main Title:
Improvement in Glass Globes or Reservoirs for Lamps.
Added Title:
Glass Globe for Lamp.
Description
Patent for an "invention to prevent the breaking of glass globes used in kerosene lamps as reservoirs for the burning fluid; and this invention consists in the application around the reservoir of a rubber ring let into a groove, but projecting sufficiently to receive the concussion in case the lamp is overthrown." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Physical Description
[1], 1 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,754, dated April 16, 1872.
Otto, Adolph.Improvement in Glass Globes or Reservoirs for Lamps.,
patent,
April 16, 1872;
[Washington D.C.].
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165333/:
accessed June 6, 2024),
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