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Carbide Hand Lamps

Justrite No 10 pic1.JPG - JUSTRITE NO. 10 LANTERN - Early Justrite No. 10 miners lantern with original tin and paper label, nickel plated, mint condition (personal lamp of John Gillie, general manager of Anaconda mines from 1911 to 1919 in Butte, Montana; Gillie as young mining engineer helped stake the original Anaconda claim with discoverer claimant Michael Hickey in 1875; name written on label and scratched into tin), glass globe embossed JUSTRITE and base of lamp marked JUSTRITE PAT APPLD FOR; J. GILLIE marked on back base of lamp, includes original instruction sheet and spare carbide container; label shows early Clinton and Van Buren Streets address in Chicago; ex-Tim Gordon collection (The Justrite Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, Illinois was formed in 1906 as an industrial fabricating company making special machinery and tools. With Frederick J. Becker as president, Justrite would become the most prolific manufacturer of carbide lamps for underground use and a name synonymous with the carbide lamp. In 1911, Becker realized the potential market for carbide mining lamps and supplies and along with his chief designer August L. "Augie" Hansen, they created a product name with one of the top reputations in carbide lamps. The first lamps manufactured and advertised by Justrite in their first known advertisements of 1912 were the No. 99 horizontal, wire feed brass cap lamp priced at one dollar with nickel plating at a dollar and a quarter, the No. 100 superintendent's lamp priced at a dollar and a half with nickel plating extra, and the rare No. 77 stick lamp priced at two dollars and 50 cents. About the same time in 1912, Augie Hansen filed a patent application for an elaborate 6-hour carbide hand lantern which included a nickel-plated, wide-flanged base, a tight-fitting carbide chamber inside the the water reservoir, a capillary water feed and gas generating system, a large glass cylinder covering the burner tip, a wire frame with a metal cap to cover the glass and a sturdy metal storage tin. The design of this lantern as shown here was sold by Justrite as Model No. 10 and was advertised in Catalog No. 1. A later model No. 10 added a bull's-eye lens. A final Model No. 12 included a flint striker igniter operated from outside the glass and a taller base. Patent #1,228,772 was issued June 5, 1917 to Hansen to cover this Justrite lantern. Justrite continued to expand the product line and their facilities and by 1919, they employed 350 employess and manufactured 42 distinct types of carbide lamps. Over the history of Justrite production from 1912 to 1931(catalogs 1 through 10A), at least 154 different lamp model numbers and at least 246 part numbers for a total of at least 400 number identifications were used by Justrite. However, a number of lamps, older versus newer, and parts used the same numbers so the whole identification matrix is ingrained with confusion. Nevertheless, it is very clear that Justrite provided more carbide lamps over a longer period of time than any other U.S. manufacturer. See Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 435-462)

Justrite No 10 pic1 | JUSTRITE NO. 10 LANTERN - Early Justrite No. 10 miners lantern with original tin and paper label, nickel plated, mint condition (personal lamp of John Gillie, general manager of Anaconda mines from 1911 to 1919 in Butte, Montana; Gillie as young mining engineer helped stake the original Anaconda claim with discoverer claimant Michael Hickey in 1875; name written on label and scratched into tin), glass globe embossed JUSTRITE and base of lamp marked JUSTRITE PAT APPLD FOR; J. GILLIE marked on back base of lamp, includes original instruction sheet and spare carbide container; label shows early Clinton and Van Buren Streets address in Chicago; ex-Tim Gordon collection (The Justrite Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, Illinois was formed in 1906 as an industrial fabricating company making special machinery and tools. With Frederick J. Becker as president, Justrite would become the most prolific manufacturer of carbide lamps for underground use and a name synonymous with the carbide lamp. In 1911, Becker realized the potential market for carbide mining lamps and supplies and along with his chief designer August L. "Augie" Hansen, they created a product name with one of the top reputations in carbide lamps. The first lamps manufactured and advertised by Justrite in their first known advertisements of 1912 were the No. 99 horizontal, wire feed brass cap lamp priced at one dollar with nickel plating at a dollar and a quarter, the No. 100 superintendent's lamp priced at a dollar and a half with nickel plating extra, and the rare No. 77 stick lamp priced at two dollars and 50 cents. About the same time in 1912, Augie Hansen filed a patent application for an elaborate 6-hour carbide hand lantern which included a nickel-plated, wide-flanged base, a tight-fitting carbide chamber inside the the water reservoir, a capillary water feed and gas generating system, a large glass cylinder covering the burner tip, a wire frame with a metal cap to cover the glass and a sturdy metal storage tin. The design of this lantern as shown here was sold by Justrite as Model No. 10 and was advertised in Catalog No. 1. A later model No. 10 added a bull's-eye lens. A final Model No. 12 included a flint striker igniter operated from outside the glass and a taller base. Patent #1,228,772 was issued June 5, 1917 to Hansen to cover this Justrite lantern. Justrite continued to expand the product line and their facilities and by 1919, they employed 350 employess and manufactured 42 distinct types of carbide lamps. Over the history of Justrite production from 1912 to 1931(catalogs 1 through 10A), at least 154 different lamp model numbers and at least 246 part numbers for a total of at least 400 number identifications were used by Justrite. However, a number of lamps, older versus newer, and parts used the same numbers so the whole identification matrix is ingrained with confusion. Nevertheless, it is very clear that Justrite provided more carbide lamps over a longer period of time than any other U.S. manufacturer. See Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 435-462)

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