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

Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model

Winfield, William C. · 1871-05-23

overall: 2 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 6.985 cm x 9.525 cm x 3.81 cm
National Museum of American History
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National Museum of American History

This oil-wick cap lamp is a patent model constructed by William C. Winfield of Hubbard, Ohio that received patent number 115,143 on May 23, 1871. Winfield’s claim in the patent filing is a miner's lamp with “a new article of manufacture, viz., a miner's lamp, provided with a screw-cap constructed, arranged, and operating with relation to the body of the lamp.”

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