Hinks Patents NOT available on "esp@cenet"

his page is a place where we can post files that are inconvenient or impractical to e-Mail back and forth. Recently a bunch of us have been digging for Hinks (Birminghan, England) Patents, and have been frustrated by the lack of these patents in the official English Patent records on their website. Neil McRae had made contact with a gentleman at the Patent Office, and when I wrote him wondering about that lack, he referred the letter to a colleague in another office. Recently, I received a packet in the mail with copies of 17 Hinks Patents (16 of which were lighting). NONE of these were available on the Internet! It turns out that 15 of them HAD been available in the European Patent Office in the Hague, Holland, until they returned the Patent documents to the countries of origin in the last year or so. In the case of England, the documents seem to have vanished, as the material there in not only hasn't been posted, but appears not even to be in the main files.

So I found myself with Patents that seeming only one of the Guild regulars have (he got them during visits to The Hague, near his home). Obviously, they needed to be scanned and made available electronically. So here they are, in PDF format, ready for your downloading!

All these files are in PDF format. They are of varying lengths, but all will require some downloading time, particularly for those of you on dial-up internet connections. The Adobe PDF format requires the Adobe reader to open, but this is a completely free download. If you do not have it, you can find a link to the download on our Light International page (see taskbar above). The material can be kept in your computer files in PDF for viewing and reading, or printed out. We often take the PDF for granted, forgetting what an amazing program it is, and that it is FREE!

Fot those of you not familiar with the current English Patent naming format, a bit of explanation is needed. For many years, the English started numbering patents at "1" every January 1st. This means that you have to know the YEAR as well as the Patent number. For Internet searches on the official site , the format is GB (for Great Britain) 1900 (the year) and 00001 (at least a 5 digit number). An example (no idea what this is...it's just an example of the format: GB190201902. All the files below are listed in the search format first, and then as the number appears on the document, number first and then full application date (day-month-year). The subjects are MY explanation, as there is no specific subject title on the document. The title visible at the start of each item below is the hot link to the file. I HOPE this isn't too confusing!
Here we go, one Patent per pdf:

GB1876 01603 #1603 15 April 1876 something about a supply fount (no image page)

GB1876 00588 # 588 12 Feb 1878 Duplex: dual knob on single shaft

GB1878 01429 #1429 10 Apr 1878 Quick disconnect between fount and stem

GB1880 01396 #1396 6 Apr 1880 "self" lighting burner (friction match in tube)

GB1883 01699 #1699 4 Apr 1883 Roof lamps for Railway Carriages (no image page)

GB1883 04341 #4341 11 Sep 1883 Gallery lift

GB1886 10671 #10671 20 Aug 1886 Extinguisher

GB1886 11275 #11275 4 Sep 1886 Spill proofing (wick enclosure)

GB1887 06685 #6685 6 May 1887 automatic extinguisher (tipping lamp)

GB1888 00808 #808 18 Jan 1888 automatic extinguisher (tipping lamp)

GB1888 17656 #17656 4 Dec 1888 stem extender for floor lamps

GB1890 01397 #1397 27 Jan 1890 manual extinguisher

GB1890 03682 #3682 8 Mar 1890 automatic extinguisher (tipping lamp)

GB1892 00924 #924 16 Jan 1892 mechanical oil pump (like a Moderator)

GB1893 07145 #07145 7 Apr 1893 Hink's version of Angle Lamp #1 (see 22151, 1893)

GB1893 17357 #17357 15 Sep 1893 oil stove chimney (metal)

GB 1893 22151 #22151 20 Nov 1893 Hink's version of Angle Lamp #2 (see 7145, 1893)

I hope fellow members of the HLC, and collectors who like mechanical innovation will enjoy these! There are a couple that seem totally impractical and may never have been produced, but those that are familiar with the Hinks Duplex burner will recognize many of these Patented innovations.
:: Fil Graff, Guild Secretary ::

Our Internet Service Provider (Saint Dennis of Peterson, of INET Northwest), has blessed us with file space, so if we find more material as helpful as we hope this is, we will add it to this page!