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Lamp-burn′er.

The portion of a lamp at which the wick is exposed and ignited. It has devices for adjusting the wick, and its crowning portion is usually such as to deflect a current of air upon the wick to insure a more perfect combustion. In the example, F is the wick-raising wheel, E the wick-tube, D the gallery for the flanged foot of the lamp-chimney.

In Fig. 2792 the wicks in the two curved tubes are raised simultaneously by two serrated wheels, which mash together. The air passes upward both within and outside the wick-tubes.

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