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Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
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This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by William C. Winfield of Hubbard, Ohio that received patent number 126,606 on May 7, 1872. The patent claims as its invention “securing the lid or cap of the ordinary ‘miners' lamp’ to its body through the medium of screw-threads in the cap and on the neck of the lamp, the cap being furnished with an elastic packing-disk, air-chamber, and openings for the ingress of air.”
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineOil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model. 1872-05-07. Winfield, William C.. National Museum of American History. CC0.
