FLOS Liquid Fueled Lamp

Basics

• A modern oil/alchohol/ether/other flammible liquid lamp
• Is as efficient as possible
• Can also be modified into a saftey lamp (firedamp in mining/checking for gas leaks)
• Good for areas with little electricity + provides light with little maitnence complexity (ie cloth is easier to find/make than led bulbs)

Used For

• Lighting
• Flammible Gas Detection
• Signaling

Basic Design

(Optional) Saftey Shroud

• Metal mesh or ceramic mesh
• Acts as a flame arrestor

Shroud

• Glass Shroud that allows light out
• Also acts as chimney/combustion chamber

Argand Wick

• Tubular for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argand_lamp 6-10x as powerful light production due to increased oxygenation

(Optional) Outside Wick Air Tubes

• Makes Air (or oxygen) flow more linearly through the shroud (as opposed to a sealed chamber being inneficient, or simple holes backblowing) thus increasing fuel to light efficiency
• Consists of J tubes roughly tanjent to the wick's circumference

(Optional) Internal Wick Air Tubes

• Makes Air (or oxygen) flow more linearly through the shroud (as opposed to a sealed chamber being inneficient, or simple holes backblowing) thus increasing fuel to light efficiency
• Consists of a tube inside the middle of the wick

Liquid Resevoir

• A bin the wick complex sits in to be wetted with the flamible liquid

Liquid Refil Option 1

• Gravity Fed Funnel Similar to the original Argand Lamps System
• Simple yet has some issues (Such as shadows due to the funnel, see [1])

Liquid Refil Option 2

• A Pump Fed Device using a crank and/or spring connected to a basic pump (Cheap peristalic perhaps?)
• More complex yet no shadows from gravity feed + spring could extend unaided run time
• (Could a stirling engine work with this?)
• This option is similar to this

Oxygen Supplementation Option

• Similar to a Bude-Light

See Also

• Open Source Circular Knitting Machine and/or CircularKnitic make the Argand wick

Useful Links

• https://uslhs.org/lighthouse-lamps-through-time
• http://www.petromax.nl/incandes.html
• Argand lamp
• Carcel lamp
• Bude-Light