Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
National Museum of American History

Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model

Weinel, Josiah J. · 1877-03-20

overall: 3 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 8.255 cm x 8.89 cm x 4.445 cm
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by Josiah J. Weinel of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, that received patent number 188,703 on March 20, 1877. Weinel claimed as his invention “a miner's lamp with an inner spout that has a thread for securing itself in the spout, with perforations for supplying air to the burner and returning oil to the font.”

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