Carcel burner

Movement lamps oil lamps, which pump by means of mechanical pumps, operated by a clockwork mechanism, the fuel oil from a tank to the low-lying top of wick lamp.

Before the discovery of petroleum animal or vegetable oils were used for lighting purposes. Since this rise only one to three inches high in a wick, the design of the lamps were very narrow limits.

Around the year 1800, the Parisian watchmaker Bertrand Guilaume Carcel developed ( 1750-1812 ) a small pump with spring lift, which he included in the foot of an oil lamp. This pump was able to pump the oil directly up into the burner. The aim of the design was to the light source ( torch ) to place as high as possible and the oil tank as far away from the burner. Other lamps from this period had the tank often at the same height of the burner, causing it to cast a shadow in the operation of the lamps. The Carcel lamp used the Argand burner.

A very large spread found not Carcel lamps. The production was complicated by the built-in movement and correspondingly expensive. In addition, these lamps were quite vulnerable due to the fuel used, and often had to be repaired. Also a lamp with a pump, but much simpler in construction, is the Moderateurlampe from about 1827. This solved the complicated Carcel lamps largely from.