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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
VIRGIL H. MILLS, OF HUBBARD, TEXAS.
LAMP-BURNER.Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 16,1913.
Application filed December 19, 1912. Serial No. 737;732.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, VYincn2-H. MILLS, a
citizen of the United States, residing at
Hubbard, in the county. of Hill and State
5 of Texas, have invented certain new and
useful Improvements in Lamp-Burners, of
which the following is a specification..
This invention relates to improvements
in lamp burners, and one object of the in-
10 vention is to provide a burner in which will
be obtained a more perfect combustion than
heretofore and in which the danger of ex-
plosion will be reduced to a minimum.
A further object of the invention is to
15 provide means to assure the proper trim-
ming of the wick, and a still further object
is to provide an improved means for hold-
ing the chimney in position.
The several stated .objects, and such other
20 objects as will incidentally appear herein=-
after, are attained in such a mechanism as
is illustrated. in the accompanying draw-
ings, and the invention consists in certain
novel features which will be hereinafter
25 first fully described and then more particu-
larly pointed out in the appended claims.
In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1
is an elevation of the lamp burner embody-
ing my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of
So the same with the wick cone removed. Fig.
3 is a vertical section on the .line 3-3 of.
Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail section on the line
4-4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail perspec-
tive view of the trimming gage. Fig. 6 is
35 a plan view showing a modification of the
invention. Fig. 7 is a section on the line
7-7 of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a plan view show-
ing a further modification. Fig. 9 is a sec-
tion on the line 9-9 of Fig. 8. Fig. 10 is,
40 a detail perspective view of a portion of the
chimney retaining ring.
In carrying out my present invention, I
may employ a. burner base 1 having the
usual perforated draft plate 2, to which a.
45 wick cone 3 is hinged, as will be readily
understood. Secured to the base 1, at in-
tervals around the same, are spring fingers
4 having eyes 5 near their upper ends,
through which a chimney retaining ring 6 is
50 passed, as will be readily understood. The
said ring 6 is usually constructed of spring
wire having a hook 7 at one 'end and pro-
vided at its opposite end with an eye 8
adapted to engage said hook whereby the
55 ring will be held coupled around the lamp
chimney. Adjacent the eye 8 a spring coil9 is formed in. the ring, which coil is ex-
panded to permit the engagement of the
eye 8 over the hook 7 and then automati-
cally retracts so as to hold the said parts 60
in engagement. To facilitate the manipula-
tion of these elements, I provide a finger-
piece or handle 10 at the end of this coil 9
so that, after the chimney is in place over
the burner and upon the base 1, the ring 65
may be readily fastened by pressing the end
thereof against the chimney and then with
the fingers of the same hand drawing upon
the said handle 10, so as to pull the eye 8
over and into engagement with the hook 7, o
as will be understood. The operation of fas-
tening the ring in position will thus be ac-
complished expeditiously and easily, with
slight discomfort to the user and without
any liability of breaking the lamp chimney. 75
At opposite sides of the wick tube 11,
which extends up centrally through the
base of the burner, I provide draft tubes 12
which are preferably extended at an angle
from the upper end of the wick tube to and so
through the base and open below the same
at opposite sides thereof. These tubes ter-
minate, as clearly shown, immediately ad-
jacent the upper end of the wick tube and
should be approximately of the same width 85
as the wick tube so that air rising through
the said tubes will feed the entire body of
the flame rising from the wick. The 'said
draft tubes 12 being preferably disposed at
an inclination or angle to the wick tube, 90
as shown most clearly in Fig. 3, any par-
ticles of soot or charred wick which might
tend to drop upon the draft plate 2 will
flow down through the said tubes 12 and
consequently pass out from the burner with- 95
out obstructing the draft therethrough and
causing imperfect combustion. The tubes
are rigidly secured in the base by being sol-
dered or otherwise fixed to the draft plate
and they may extend vertically, as shown at 100
13 in Figs. 8 and 9, in which event they
would terminate above the wick raiser 14,
as shown. A further embodiment of the in-
vention would be the formation of a flange
or box 15 upon the base plate around the 105
upper end.of the wick tube, as shown in
Figs. 6 and 7, which box would be open at
its lower end so as to supply a strong cur-
rent of air to the flame.
The wick 16 rises through the wick tube 110
11 and is raised or lowered to adjust the
flame by the wick raiser 14 in the usual man-1,073,358.
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Mills, Virgil H. Lamp-Burner., patent, September 16, 1913; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth854065/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.