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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
MARTIN A. McBRIDE, OF WOODVILLE, TEXAS.
LAMP-WICK RAISER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 462,573, dated November 3, 1891.
Application filed December 16, 1890. Serial No. 374,885. (No model.)
_To all whorm it may concern: are preferably triangular.or A shape in cross-
Be it known that I, MARTIN A. MCBRIDE, of section, as is plainly shown in Figs. 1 and 3,
Woodville, in the county of Tyler and State- and the said ribs are arranged helically, so 45
of Texas, have invented a new and Improved that the sharp edge of the rib does not engage
5 Lamp-Wick Raiser, of which the following is one cross-thread- of the wick at one time, but
a full, clear, and exact description. a series of cross-threads, thereby preventing
The object of the invention is to provide a the cutting or injuring of the wick when turn-
new and improved device especially designed ing the wheel in order to raise or lower the 50
for conveniently manipulating a lamp-wick, wick. The wheel A is preferably of such a
co and which is simple and durable in construe- length that each rib will engage the wick
tion and very effective in operation, permit- nearly throughout its width, so that the wick
ting of conveniently moving the wick in its isevenlyanduniformlyraisedorloweredwhen
guiding-tube without cutting or otherwise in- the wheel is turned. By arranging the ribs 55
juring the wick. as shown the introduction of the wick into its
15 The invention consists of certain parts and guiding-tube D is made considerably easier
details and combinations of the same, as will than with the old style of ratchet-wheel now
be fully described hereinafter, and then point- employed.
ed out in the claims. Having thus fully described my invention, 6o
Reference is to be had to the accompanying I claim as new and desire to secure by Let-
2o drawings, forming a part of this specification, ters Patent-
in which similar letters of reference indicate 1. A wick-operating wheel consisting in a
corresponding parts in all the figures. cylinder A, formed with a series of coarsely-
Figure 1 is a transverse section of the im- pitched helically-arranged ribs F, triangular 65
provement as applied. Fig. 2 is a sectional in cross-section, said ribs being so pitched
25 side elevation of the same on the line x x of that they extend from end to end of the cyl-
Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the inderwithout makingarevolutionthereabout,
wheel. substantially as set forth.
The improved devicefor manipulatinglamp- 2. The combination of the burner-cap C, 70
wicks is provided with a wheel A, secured on having a wick-tube D extending from its bot-
30 a shaft B, mounted to turn in suitable bear- tom centrally up through its top and formed
ings in the cap C of the burner, said cap sup- with an opening D' in one side within the cap,
porting in the usual manner the guiding or and the wick-raising wheel journaled in the
wick tube D, through which the wick E passes, cap, projecting into opening D', and formed 75
as usual. The wheel A extends through a slot of a cylinder A, provided with coarsely-pitched
35 D' in the wick-tube D, so as to take hold of helically-arranged triangular ribs F, said ribs
one side of the wick E. In order to raise or extending from end to end of the cylinder
lower the said wick in the said tube the wheel without making a revolution thereabout, sub-
A is provided in its peripheral surface with stantially as set forth.
helically-arranged ribs F, each extending from MARTIN A. McBRIDE.
to end to end of the cylinder at a very coarse Witnesses:
pitch and without making a revolution there- W. G. DAvIs,
about, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The ribs J. C. MINTER.
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McBride, Martin A. Lamp-Wick Raiser., patent, November 3, 1891; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172844/m1/2/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.