Carbide Cap Lamps/Hansen Bottom

Carbide Cap Lamps

Hansen Bottom.JPG - HANSEN BOTTOM -Hard to find brass Hansen cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top HANSEN in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA; ex-Henry Pohs collection (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp shown here that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73)

Hansen Bottom | HANSEN BOTTOM -Hard to find brass Hansen cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top HANSEN in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA; ex-Henry Pohs collection (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp shown here that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73)

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