Center Draft Oil Lamp Flame Spreader

The flame spreader is placed inside the top of the wick tube which is located in the middle of the top of the burner.

Center draft oil lamp flame spreader.

1 bid 15 74 shipping. In the center of the burner sits the inner wick tube which is a part attached to the font. 15 1884 for use in circular center draft worsted woven wick lamps. Antique brass rayo oil lamp shade rack electrified.

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. Antique rayo center draft nickel plated brass lamp. The famous aladdin lamp came into being when victor samuel johnson acquired improved center draft burners patented by charles e. 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.

Ending tuesday at 3 50pm pdt 1d 15h. And perfection 730. Center draft kerosene lamps 1884 to 1940 identification value guide. Combines the photos shown above and more.

Note similarity of design. The central draft tube was a significant improvement in lighting evident in argand lamps sinumbra lamps astral lamps and solar lamps. G co success oil lamp center draft flame spreader. Galleries for flame spreaders spanning 100 years of production.

Make offer 2 antique rayo oil table lamp burner flame spreader nickel plate color 1895. Or best offer 4 90 shipping. There are currently several on ebay in the 30 60 range depending on condition plus shipping and there are maybe half a dozen in the 130 150 range complete. The p a plant was eventually destroyed by a flood in 1955 along with the lamp making equipment.

The components of a rayo are fairly basic. The flame spreader is a standalone part and i have yet to receive a fount draft tube base that leaks. If used turned down to minimum light output theywillproduce an aroma when burning but not when properly adjusted for maximum light output. When you get yours lift straight up.

Parker center draft lamp early 1880 s. Wirth assignor to plume and atwood manufacturing company waterbury connecticut. 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. Circular wick center draft lamps should be burned at near maximum light output to properly heat the flame spreader to burn up all fumes.

The flame spreader was patented on jan. The under the burner utb tripod is also mounted between the burner and top of the font on rayo lamps that originally had a shade.