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The Buddy LSide.jpg - THE BUDDY - The Buddy is a rare marked Justrite lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked THE BUDDY on the rounded top and MFG. BY JUSTRITE MFG. CO. CHICAGO, ILL U.S.A on one side of the water tank and PATENTS DEC. 17, 1901 MAY 7, 1912 OCT. 28, 1913 OTHERS PENDING on the opposite side, its barrel shape was unlike any other Justrite product. Height to the top of the water control is 3 5/8 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. Interesting features include the knurled outer edge of the screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and the unknown-purpose metal flange underneath the water fill door. The lamp was never advertised and died a quick death as the result of a patent interference suit with John B. Anton, whose entry into the acetylene lamp market after years of manufacturing oil wick lamps met with no success. John Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1915. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. Very few The Buddy lamps were made and are quite scarce. The lamp shown appears to be unfired although the burner tip shows some darkening. It is thought the tip is a later used replacement for the original tip. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps (see the Anton lamp earlier in the cap lamp pics) are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 107-110

The Buddy LSide | THE BUDDY - The Buddy is a rare marked Justrite lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked THE BUDDY on the rounded top and MFG. BY JUSTRITE MFG. CO. CHICAGO, ILL U.S.A on one side of the water tank and PATENTS DEC. 17, 1901 MAY 7, 1912 OCT. 28, 1913 OTHERS PENDING on the opposite side, its barrel shape was unlike any other Justrite product. Height to the top of the water control is 3 5/8 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. Interesting features include the knurled outer edge of the screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and the unknown-purpose metal flange underneath the water fill door. The lamp was never advertised and died a quick death as the result of a patent interference suit with John B. Anton, whose entry into the acetylene lamp market after years of manufacturing oil wick lamps met with no success. John Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1915. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. Very few The Buddy lamps were made and are quite scarce. The lamp shown appears to be unfired although the burner tip shows some darkening. It is thought the tip is a later used replacement for the original tip. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps (see the Anton lamp earlier in the cap lamp pics) are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 107-110

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