Patent Model - Improvement in Lamp-Burners
Maker and role
Lewis Atwood (American, b.1827, d.1909), Patentee
Plume & Atwood Manufacturing Company (estab. 1869, closed 1955), Assignee
Production date
Nov 26 1872
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Brass
Measurements
1 x 3" (2.5 x 7.6cm)
Description
Atwood's improvements were to the draft-plate to a class of lamps "in which there is an air-distributer around the upper portion of the wick-tube and a draft-plate within the chimney, so that the lower edge of that chimney is some distance below that air-distributer and draft-plate." (Patent Number 133,397)
Object number
2014.4.6
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