Center Draft Oil Lamp Flame Spreader

When a center draft wick in an oil lamp won t move freely it is usually because it has been dry for a long period and the wick fibers are stuck to the draft tube.

Center draft oil lamp flame spreader. Missing its chimney flame spreader and covered in ugly paint it looked sad. Flame spreader heaters a century of excellence. Especially with names on the flame spreader. Galleries for flame spreaders spanning 100 years of production.

This particular b h trophy lamp is an extremely rare insert fount radiant 4 undated with only patent applied for on the wick raising knob. Note similarity of design. This is actually how you re supposed to trim the wick of a center draft lamp set the flame as low as it will go and let it run out of fuel then knock the ash off rubbing around the wick in the same direction each time. The b h trophy lamp on the right has been electrified but in an emergency the socket can be pulled out the flame spreader put back in the lamp fueled and in less than an hour it is again a working fuel lamp.

Fortunately trimming can be as simple as removing the flame spreader and knocking the ash off the wick with your finger. Item no 92 trophy style center draft vase lamp with removable oil pot signed juno lamp made by edward miller and company manufactured late 1890 s. Parker center draft lamp early 1880 s. Arms and vase are a pewter like finish.

All these lamps were called center draft because their design incorporated a hollow tube that ran up the center of the lamp and produced an air draft that when combined with a circular wick around the tube and a flame spreader at the top of the tube produced a brighter light than simple flat wick oil lamps. Wandering around the vancouver flea market on a rainy weekend in november 2011 i ran into an interesting center draft kerosene lamp scroll down to the bottom of the page to find links where you can learn more on them. Center draft lamps in my collection. This development introduced oxygen to both the inside and outside of the wick resulting in considerably greater efficiency when a properly designed flame spreader was inserted into the center draft tube.

With earlier style oil lamps such as this one remove the flame spreader and the burner to expose the wick around the draft tube. The central draft tube was a significant improvement in lighting evident in argand lamps sinumbra lamps astral lamps and. The brass finish on the oil pot and spill ring is in good condition. This book is about lamps with a central draft tube fitted with a flame spreader to supply air oxygen to the flame of a round wick.

Miller burner is bayonet connection with lift gallery solid prongs wick raiser bar and thumb wheel move well. No photograph is shown in courters center. Center draft kerosene lamps 1884 to 1940 identification value guide.