See Below           Burners & Founts

    Burner -     The burner is the mechanism that holds the wick in place.  It is made of brass or tin.  It has a ratchet that allows the wick to be raised and lowered brightening or dimming the light of the lantern.  The burners in the World Standard Deck and Dark lanterns were manufactured by various companies.  All used a standard 5/8" wick.  The lanterns were made to a standard specification, but they did have some differences.  One difference was the thread size of the burner.  Another difference was the manufacturers' markings.  The thread is the part of the burner that screws into the fount.  While a very large percentage of the burners were interchangeable due to the same thread size, the Wedge burner was an exception.  It had a larger thread size that wasn't compatible with the other makers' founts.  Five burners are pictured below.  Notice the different markings on them. 

Convex Burner
R. E. Dietz


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Simplex Burner
E. Miller & Co.

 
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National Metal Burner

I don't have a photo yet, but the markings are as follows on the 
end of the burner wheel.
  
  "The National Marine Lamp Co."

 

P&A Manufacturing Burner
Found on Lafayette, Stegmueller 
& others


 
 
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Vortex Burner
Found on Universal, Vogel & others


  
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Wedge Burner
Found on Perkins



  
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Fount -
   The fount which holds the kerosene was usually made from the same type of material as the lantern.  Tin lanterns generally had tin founts and like- wise brass lanterns usually had brass founts.  Since these lanterns were built to a standard specification for the U.S. Government, the founts were easily interchangeable.  That's why you may see a brass fount in a tin lantern and vise versa.  A very large number of the founts were of the "Sangster" pinch-type variety.  The "Sangster" fount was one that had two clamps that held it into the base of the lantern.  The clamps were pinched to release it.  Another style of fount was the "bayonet".  It had two posts instead of clamps that held it into the lantern.  The fount was inserted by twisting it into the base almost one complete revolution. The Perkins fount shown below used the bayonet style mount.

 R. E. Dietz
Tin


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 R. E. Dietz
Brass


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 Keystoneware
Tin


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 Universal Metal
Brass


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Lafayette Metal Co.
Brass

    

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Wm. Stegmueller
Tin




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Vogel Stamping
Brass


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National Metal Spinning & Stamping Co.
Brass


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Perkins Co.
Brass

   
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City Metal
Tin

 
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Blickman & Co.
Brass

   
 
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