USRE6852E - Improvement in night-burners - Google Patents

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w. P. N-EWHALL.

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Roissued Jan. 11, 1876.

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UNITED STATES] PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER r. NEWHALL, or PEEKSKILL, N. nssreso'n, BY MEsNn ASSIGN- MEETS, TO B. H. PLASS AND HENRY.

MGMANUS, OF NEW YORK CITY.

' IMPROVEMENT m NIGHT-BU'RNERS. I

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No .45,513, dated December 20, 1 864; reissue No. 6,852], dated January 11, 1876 application filed anuary 6, 1875.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that WALTER P. 'NEWHALL, of Peekskill, county of Westchester, State of New York, invented an Attachment for Coal Oil-Lamp Burners, of which the following is a specification The object of this invention is to provide an ordinary lamp-burner with appliances whereby the flame may at any time be reduced to the size required for a night-light, and this object is elfected by means of an adjustable cap or hood for covering a portion of thewick, as shown in the accompanying drawing, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a burner with the appliances for reducing the size of the flame; Fig. 2, a vertical central section, showing the parts in a difierent position; and Fig. 3, a detached perspective "view of the device used in applying the lIlVGIlfiOH to ordinary burners.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

B represents the body of a coal-oil burner; A, the wick-tube, and 0 a hood so'p'ivoted to pins as m that it may be turned to eitherof the positions shown in Figs. land 2. A rod, f,

jointed to the hood at y, and extending through at the end lips,

as shown in Fig. 1, the flame is reduced to a size suitable tor a night-light. By withdrawing the hood from above the wick-tube the wick is fully exposed, and a flame of theusual size is obtained, the hood being supported at one side of the wick-tube in a position ready for instant adjustment abovethe wick when a night-flameis required.

To render the device appl-icableto burners already in use the hood 0 is pivoted to are tainer, consisting of a plate, (1, Fig. 3, having which carry the pins w, and extend around and embrace thewick-tube, securing thereto the plate and its appliances.

We claim--.- f

1. The-combination of a lamp-burner, an adjustable hood for covering a portion of the wick, and appliances whereby the hood may be adjusted without removing the dome of the burner, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a burner and a hood connected to the burner, and capable of being" adjusted either to a position at one side of the above, and cover- I ing a part of the wick, substantially as set wick-tube or to a position forth.

3.- A night-light attachment for coal-oil burners, consisting of a hood connected adjustably to a retainer, adapted to the wicktube of a burner, as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our I.

names to this specification in the presence 0 two subscribing witnesses. V

a. H. PLASS. A I HENRY McMANUS. Witnesses: I

\ Guns. W. PLASS,

GEO. A. SHnrARDsoN.

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