Joseph Hinks

Home Up Aladdin Lamps Joseph Hinks Messenger & Sons E Miller Co.

(C) Vin Callcut 2002-2013  Small extracts can be used with acknowledgements to 'Oldcopper.org website'. 

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  James Hinks & Son,  91-96 Great Hampton Street & 66 Hockley Street, Birmingham, were established before 1865 as James Hinks and made many oil lamps and similar products. James and Joseph Hinks  patented the duplex burner and the extinguisher lever in 1865.  This was much better than the straight single wick burner and the idea was copied by others when the patent expired.  They also invented the idea of using a key to raise the gallery to facilitate lighting the burner without the need  to remove the glass chimney.

http://www.parkers-paraffinalia.co.uk/windmeup.htmHinks
   
  Hinks' Phoenix Patent, an interesting single wick design with an internal self-extinguishing ability given by a sphere of steel that works in an internal conical guide and extinguishes the wick if the lamp is upset.
   
   Hinks No2 Triple is a variation on the Duplex burner but why it is called 'Triple' is not obvious.