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![Richards Patent I.JPG - H. J. RICHARDS MARKED - Hard to find tin drivers lamp with annular ribbed skirt 2/3 around the lamp for cooling, marked H J RICHARDS PAT. JAN. 26, 86 WILKES- BARRE, PA, brass top and collar (patent #335,041) [Henry J Richards, inventor and mining timberman, was born in Merthyr Tydvill, Glamorganshire, South Wales, November 14, 1845, a son of William H. and Martha (Jones) Richards. His father came to America in 1873, located in Plymouth, Pa., and engaged in mining up to the time of his death in 1882. Henry was one of 10 children and was reared in Wales, and educated in the public schools. He began life in the mines at six years of age in his native country, where he was employed sixteen years. On May 15, 1865, he married Ann Lloyd of Merthyr Tydvill and by her fathered six children. He and his wife started for America in October 1867, but three days out from Queenstown they were shipwrecked, and then rescued by a ship sailing for Quebec, Canada. They ended up in Pittsburgh for five months and from there moved to Danville, Pa., in 1868, and then on to Kingston in 1869. Since that time he was a resident of Luzerne County and of Wilkes-Barre since 1880. He was employed by the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company as a timberman from 1873 into the 1890s. Henry J. Richards was a prolific inventor receiving patents for three different miners’ oil wick lamps as well as other mining inventions. These include patent No. 320,287 awarded June 16, 1885 for a lamp with an air duct surrounding the wick tube. The only known example of the lamp was in the collection of the late Dr. Bob Guthrie. Patent No. 335,041 for the lamp shown here with its font cooling arrangement was awarded Jan. 26, 1886. The third lamp with an unusual wick tube arrangement to avoid fuel spills was awarded patent No. 427,013 on April 29, 1890 with half the patent assigned to Charles H. Gardner also of Wilkes-Barre. In addition Richards also received patent No. 342,635 on May 25, 1886 for a drilling machine; patent Nos. 622,076 awarded Mar. 28, 1899 and 476,488 awarded June 7, 1892 for improved miner’s safety lamps; and patent No. 689,367 awarded Dec. 17, 1901 for improved blasting squibs.]](Richards Patent I.JPG) |
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| Richards Patent I | H. J. RICHARDS MARKED - Hard to find tin drivers lamp with annular ribbed skirt 2/3 around the lamp for cooling, marked H J RICHARDS PAT. JAN. 26, 86 WILKES- BARRE, PA, brass top and collar (patent #335,041) [Henry J Richards, inventor and mining timberman, was born in Merthyr Tydvill, Glamorganshire, South Wales, November 14, 1845, a son of William H. and Martha (Jones) Richards. His father came to America in 1873, located in Plymouth, Pa., and engaged in mining up to the time of his death in 1882. Henry was one of 10 children and was reared in Wales, and educated in the public schools. He began life in the mines at six years of age in his native country, where he was employed sixteen years. On May 15, 1865, he married Ann Lloyd of Merthyr Tydvill and by her fathered six children. He and his wife started for America in October 1867, but three days out from Queenstown they were shipwrecked, and then rescued by a ship sailing for Quebec, Canada. They ended up in Pittsburgh for five months and from there moved to Danville, Pa., in 1868, and then on to Kingston in 1869. Since that time he was a resident of Luzerne County and of Wilkes-Barre since 1880. He was employed by the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company as a timberman from 1873 into the 1890s. Henry J. Richards was a prolific inventor receiving patents for three different miners’ oil wick lamps as well as other mining inventions. These include patent No. 320,287 awarded June 16, 1885 for a lamp with an air duct surrounding the wick tube. The only known example of the lamp was in the collection of the late Dr. Bob Guthrie. Patent No. 335,041 for the lamp shown here with its font cooling arrangement was awarded Jan. 26, 1886. The third lamp with an unusual wick tube arrangement to avoid fuel spills was awarded patent No. 427,013 on April 29, 1890 with half the patent assigned to Charles H. Gardner also of Wilkes-Barre. In addition Richards also received patent No. 342,635 on May 25, 1886 for a drilling machine; patent Nos. 622,076 awarded Mar. 28, 1899 and 476,488 awarded June 7, 1892 for improved miner’s safety lamps; and patent No. 689,367 awarded Dec. 17, 1901 for improved blasting squibs.] |  Original Image |
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