US66526A - edmunds - Google Patents

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SIMPSON & EDMUNDS.

Lamp Extinguisher.

Patented July '9, 1867.

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GEORGE SIMPSON AND lLLlAhtl H. EDMUNDS, OF WATER-BURY, VERMONT. Letters Patent No. 66,526, dated July 9, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN' LAMP-EXTINGU'TSHER.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, Gnoncn Snirsox and WXLLIAM H. EDMUNDS, both of the town of Waterbury, in the county of Washington, in the State of Vermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Extinguishers for Cool-Oil Burners; and the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drnwings, making a part of this specification, in whichr Figure 1 represents:tvertical edge-view section through the Wick-tube, and the hinged cap, and mechanism for operating it to open and close.

Figure 2 shows a plan or top view of the some.

The object of our invention is to prevent the smoke and smell of coal-oil lumps, when the \vick is turned down to extinguish the light, and consists of it cap hinged to the socket on the top of the wick-tube, it couplingbur, and crank to open and close the cup by n. thumb-nut.

I To enable others to make and use our invention, we will describe it more fully, referring to the drawings and the letters marked thereon. I

To the wick-tube A of a common coal-oil burner we fit a socket, a a, to slide over at the top, to which is hinged a concave cup, B, which is connected with it crank, G, by u coupling-rod, b, so that by a quarter turn of the orztnk C the cap B is placed over the top of the wick-tube A, and held firmly on; the crank-bur bearing against the tube so that the cap'C will press on the wick and close the tube, and can be turned oil only by turning the nut d, changing the position of the crank C.

i Thus it will be seen that a, very perfect and efficient extinguisher can be put on to any of the ordinary coal-oil burners, at on expense so trifling as not to add materially to the original cost, and which is very desirable, both for safety and comfort. Another advantage in covering the wick when the light is not burning is that the wick does not dry up and is much easier relighted, and the gas is prevented from generating and escaping by the evaporation of the oil: i 7

Having thus described our invention, what we claim :18 new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The combination of the socket a awith the hinged cup B, connecting-rod b, crank C, and wick-tube A, constructed and operating substantially in the manner herein described, for the purposes herein set forth.

Subscribed to on this 30th day of March, 1866, before us' i GEORGE SIMPSON, Witnesses: WILLIAM. H. EDMUNDS.

A. H. WELLS,

EDWIN F. PALMER.

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