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Floor & Hanging Lamps
Sight Feed Acetylene Generator
This is my favorite piece to date. It is an early 1900's Acetylene Generator! This old-timer just couldn’t have turned out better. These were used to generate acetylene gas for welding in the early industrial days. The cone-shaped tank was filled with water and the Pyrex glass cylinder on the top of the tank was filled with carbide granules. When the operating lever in the top of the glass cylinder was lifted, it allowed a metered amount of the carbide granules to drop into the water, creating acetylene gas. The gas then was drawn off the top of the tank and came up the large tube on the side to the pressure regulator and service outlet. They were extremely dangerous---from what I have heard from those who lived to tell me about them.
Specifications: It is 2' at its base, 6' 6" tall, and weighs 95 lbs.
# FL-1 $2,259.00 Now $1,449.00
The Pyrex cylinder has white polyurethane 1/8" beads---used for injection molding---in it. Under the beads I used a glass light bulb cover from an old school hallway light and mounted a tubular 40-watt bulb up inside of it to make the beads glow. Nice night-light! You swing the old original regulator interface arm at the right to turn this light on and off.
Great old gauge made by the U S Gauge Co. in New York.
This is the brass service outlet valve that controlled the gas flow to the hand-held torch. I ran the wire through this valve and hose to the main light.
This brass and cast iron operating lever was used originally to control the metering of the carbide into the water. Now you push it down and it turns the light on or off and then springs back to the location you see it in now.
This old torch was used for acetylene gas only. It was possibly from the Southern Pacific Railroad. An 'S. P.' is stamped on the bonnet nut at the valve stem. Great handle!
Ford Motor Co. made this cast iron top piece. I don’t know what it is. My guess is it was a fluid reservoir of some kind. I has a small plug valve a the bottom. If you know what it is, please let me know.
Vacuum Pump Floor Lamp
This is an impressive Gardner Rix vacuum pump made by the Gardner Gov. Co. in Quincy, Illinois. Patented September 20, 1910. Model IXP107. Size 4" x 2" bore/stroke. Large cast raised lettering all over. It has a single flat belt pulley.
Specifications: 10" x 14" at its base, 65" tall. It weighs 95 pounds!
# FL-2 $790.00 Now $449.00
Roller Cone Drill Bit Floor Lamp
This drill has huge roller cutters that do the cutting when drilling into the earth. This is one big bit. This lamp has a 3-way switch socket.
Specifications: 8" round at base and is 65" tall. It weighs 92 pounds!
# FL-3 $661.00 Now $298.00
Bucket Feed Chain Floor Lamp
I got this feed chain off of an old farm field seeding machine. This chain, with its buckets, dipped down into a large hopper full of seed and transfered the seed to a spreader that rotated so when the seeds hit it they were flung in all directions. This lamp has a pull-chain switch socket for the large bucket at the top. The little buckets have small lights that are controled by a push-button switch on the disc at the base.
Specifications: 15" round at its base, 50 1/2" tall, and weighs 20 pounds.
# FL-4 $646.00 Now $259.00
Auger Floor Lamp
I don't know what this auger was used for. Agricultural use is my guess, in that I bought it at a farm. This lamp has a 3-way switch socket.
Specifications: 15" round at its base, 70" tall, and weighs 27 pounds.
# FL-5 $562.00 Now $249.00
Pool Table Hanging Light Fixture
The cross-bar is from a coverd wagon stiffening brace that went across the bed of the wagon and held the bed planks tight and in line. It has several hand forged holes in it. The light tops are scalloped tilling discs.
Specifications: 3' 6" high (including chain), 4' 4" long, and weighs 40 pounds.
# HL-1 $789.00 Now $375.00
Hand File Hanging Light Fixture
I used 3 old files, 1 small steel wooden wheel rim and 1 standard-size wine barrel stay.
Specifications: 14" high (fixture only) 4' (with chain), 25" diameter and weighs 40 pounds.
# HL-2 $367.00 Now $225.00
Overland Light and Table
The feet and upright post are an old dress form stand. The headlight is from a Overland automobile. The headlight turns 360 degrees, tips up and down from about a 45- to 90-degree position, and slides up and down from 48" to 64" from the floor. It has a push-button switch on the back of the headlight.
Specifications: 48" to 63" high, 16" diameter, and weighs 17 pounds.
# FL-6 $498.00 Now $325.00
Brass Reading Light
I love this old bullet-shaped all brass headlight. I don't know what it came off of. It has two hinges---one on each side. The base is a chain drive pulley off an old seed spreader. It has a pull-chain switch with an old spark plug on a brass chain for the pull.
Specifications: 5' high, 15" diameter at its base, and weighs 17 pounds.
# FL-7 $388.00 Now $249.00
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