US 11,655,975 B2Granted

Oil lamp post cap holder

OwnerEric A. Sohn, Kristine K. Sohninventors

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Abstract

The present invention is a lamp apparatus that includes a reservoir for flammable liquids and a wick that can be incorporated with a post and within the cap of a post, such as a deck or fence post. The apparatus can include an external housing that attaches to a post and contains and conceals the internal components of the lamp apparatus within the external housing. This external housing can resemble and function as the cap of a post. The apparatus may allow for a user to remove a snuffing cap from the top of the external housing and ignite the lamp's wick, which then allows the post to function as a torch. The apparatus may also allow for a user to place the snuffing cap back on the top of the external housing to extinguish the flame and discreetly conceal that a lamp is contained within the cap of the post.

Claims18

Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

a post;
a base;
a cover;
a snuffer cap;
the post disposed longitudinally adjacent to the base;
the base disposed longitudinally adjacent to the snuffer cap, wherein the cover is longitudinally fixed between the base and the snuffer cap to form an external housing;
a grommet, wherein the grommet is longitudinally fixed between an outer surface of a fuel reservoir and a bottom surface of a cover ring, and wherein the cover ring is longitudinally fixed between an outer surface of the grommet and an inner cavity of the cover;
the fuel reservoir disposed within an internal cavity of the base, a wick collar secured longitudinally to an opening on an outer surface of the fuel reservoir, wherein an opening is on an outer surface of the wick collar and extends longitudinally through a body of the wick collar to a bottom surface of the wick collar;
and
a wick that longitudinally extends downwards through the wick collar into the fuel reservoir and longitudinally extends upwards into the cover.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/551,405Filed 15 Dec 2021 · us provisional application
Priority: 23 Dec 2020
Published: US 2022/0252253 A111 Aug 2022
Granted: 23 May 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

F21S 13/10
Devices intended to be fixed, e.g. ceiling lamp, wall lamp: with a standard, e.g. street lamp
F21V 37/0016
Fuel containers: fastening of the container to other parts of the lamp
E04H 17/006
Fencing, e.g. fences, enclosures, corrals: caps or covers for posts
F21V 37/0008
Using liquid fuel: fuel containers