A SAFE LAMP.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2242, 20 November 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

A SAFE LAMP.

A Paris correspondent says : —The question of a safe petroleum lamp, which is exciting 1 so much attention in England, may be considered as practically solved in Franoe iv the lamp known as the tampe Itoile. It was invented by an artist, of the name of Darfco, who once had his atelier burned down by tho npaettinpf of a petroleum lamp, and then Bet his mind hard at work to find a remedy against sich an accident in future. Tho great feature of the etoilo lamp, to which it owes its almost absolute safety, is that tho burning wick is not the same wick which dips into the oil reservoir There are, in fact, two wicks — one which carries up the oil, and another pressed closely in contact with part of its surface, which supplies the flame by an ingenious system of air passages. The inflammable gas, if any, which forms ut tho surface of tho oil id carried into the open air, and has no chance of reaching tho fluno except throug-h tho top of the lamp-glass. By this timo, however, it would be so attenuated that it would cease to be dangerous. The inventor knocked one down bofore my eyes and the flame was instantly extinguished. This is managed by valves at the orifices of the air passages, which fall down and atop the supply when tho lamp is inverted.