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Description

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6. E BALDWIN.

I LAMP WIOK CLEANER. N0.278, 075. Patnted May 22,1883.

PATENT OFFICE.

enARLEs-E. BALDWIN, on NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR' on ONE-HALF TO CORNELIUS BEARD, ()F-SAME PLACE.

LAMP-WICK CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,075, dated May 22, 18 83.

Application filed March 20, 1593. (X model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES E. BALDWIN, acitizen ofthe United States ofNo'rth America, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented anew and nseluL' r5 cured to the lamp-burner in such a position that the diagonal portion of the cleaner may at will be passed back and forth directlyover the top of the wick-tube and against the edge of the wick therein held; andit further consists of the method of removing or preventing the wick-incrustations by applying the cleaner diagonally across the wick, all of which will be hereinafter set forth.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures. Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a lamp with my improved device in position. 0 Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of my improved device in position over a wick.- Fig. 4c is a plan of the same turned'aside from the wick. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of an Argand burner, showing a modification of my wick-cleanerimmovably fixed thereon. Fig.

6 is a plan'of the same.

In the drawings, A represents a lamp, B the burner, O the wick-tube, D the wick, E the burner-cap, and F the wick-adjuster, all 4.0 of which are of the usual construction, and hence require no further description herein.

The wick-cleaner G consists of a metal rod or wire Wrought into shape, with its horizontal central section, a, terminating at each end in 4 5 perpendicular depending arms b I), respectively, which are oppositely inclined from each other, as shown in Fig. 3, so that relatively the section a is held diagonally between them, and said arms b b terminate in horizontal arms c 0, respectively, that are on the same horizontal line with each other, and themselves terminate in depending ends d (1, respectively, that are parallel with each other.

When this wick-cleaner is fixed in position. with its diagonal section a above the top of the wick-tube 0, its arms 1) I) close to the vertical edges of the tube 0, its arms cc extended through opposite perforations in the sides of the lamp-burner B, and its ends cl d depending outside the said burner B, as shown in Figs. 1 and3, a handle or button,f, is formed on the longer end (Z for convenience in operating the device.

The normal position of the cleaner G, relatively to thelamp-wick, is, as indicated in Fig. 6 4, with the section a turned aside; but when the wick becomes incrusted the crust is removed therefrom by the operator taking hold of the handle or button f, and thereby movingthe cleaner G, so that its section a, shall, with a relatively-diagonal movement, be passed across the top of said wick, as indicated in Fig. 3.

It will be obvious that were a wick-cleaner of this character to be passed relatively straight from side to side across and parallel with the 7 wick the flame would surely be extinguished, if the wick were a narrow one, and that with a wider fiat wick the risk of extinguishing the fiame would begreat, while by therelative movement of thisimproved cleaner-a grad ual- 8o ly-progressive diagonal movement from one to the other corner of the wick-the flame cannot be extinguished.

In the application of this wick-cleaner and method of cleaning wicksI do not confine my- 8 self to the style of lamp and wick herein shown, as it is obvious that the cleaner can, without departing from my invention, be adapted to lamps and wicks of other construction and shapes.

In Figs. 5 and 6 is shown a modification of my wick-cleaner wherein the cleanerGis firmly fixed on the base of an Argand burner, L, containing a wick. D. In this instance the horizontal arm a of the cleaner G is branched into 9 5 two diagonal sections or points, a a, that are held immediately above the edge of the wick D, as shown. In this instance it is designed to turn the burner or wick-tube, and thereby the wick, up when the latter requires cleaning or the removal of incrustation, and when so turned the edge of said wick is presented gradually and diagonally against the cleaner-sections a 0., whereby the inorustation is removed.

It isdesigned in all cases to set the diagonal portion of the cleaner Gr just far enough above the top of the wick-tube or burner to indicate the proper adjustment of the wick, the wick to be turned up only so far as to touch the cleaner in order to produce the most-complete combustion and the clearest light.

By an occasional relative movement of the cleaner and wick the formation of incrustation sufficient to affect the light will be absolutely prevented, and the minute particles of carbon thereby removed by this occasional movement, being carried up in the ascending flame, will become incandescent and vaporized, so that neither the lamp nor any surrounding objects will be soiled by deposits of carbon.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. The combination, with the burner B and wick O, of the lamp-wick cleaner G, constructed substantially as herein shown and described, With horizontal central section, a, depending oppositely-inclined arms b b, horizontal arms 0 c, and depending ends 61 d, as set forth.

2. A lamp-wick cleaner consisting ofa metal rod or Wire Wrought into form, substantially as herein shown and describedywith horizontal diagonally-placed central section, a, held up by perpendicular oppositely-inclined arms I) b, that terminate in horizontal arms 0 c, having depending extremities d d, and handlef, as set forth.

In testimony thatI claim the foregoingras my invention I have signed my name, in presence ot two witnesses, this 9th day of March, 1883.

CHARLES E. .BALDVVIN.

Witnesses:

JACOB J. STORER, CHAS. A. Hess.

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