US
lantern manufacturers A - I
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The Workhorse brand 500
cp lantern
is manufactured by the
CJN Adams Corp. in Iowa,
using foreign and domestic
parts.
Besides having a positive
fuel shutoff (left image-knob to the left)
it has a different design
for the air/fuel mixing tube (right image).
This lantern is in Brien
Page's collection.
For safety only use kerosene
fuel in this lantern.
Originally designed and
built for the military by a consortium of 4 lantern manufacturers,
This lantern was later
built by other companies
that successfully bid for
the government contracts.
This lantern, in Roger Hill's collection,
was built by Auto-Fab Manufacturing (AFM),
Mansfield, Ohio, in 1967
The Best Light Co, Canton,
OH, made this Model 304 lantern.
The spun
steel fount had been painted by a previous
owner;
the original finish was an unknown plating.
The tip cleaner rod is
worked from below the globe cage.
This one burner, torch-lighting
lantern
is in Fil Graff's collection.
The Brite Lite Co., Albert
Lea, Minnesota,
includes this No 69 400cp
lantern in their Catalog No 5
which can be dated to around
1916, according to Neil McRae.
This 20" tall lantern,
sans globe, is in Bob Hitchcock's collection.
The Brite Lite Co. also
made this Model 99
lantern that appears in
Catalog No. 5 as the above Model 69.
This single mantle, torch
lighting, gasoline lantern
was also advertised as
producing 400 cp.
The bail attachment to
the central part of the ventilator
and the wire guard around
the globe are unusual.


The Economy Lamp Co., Kansas
City, Missouri, made this Model 408 lantern, after 1925
according to Neil McRae
who has compared the burner to other burners made by this company.
Unfortunately the lantern
was figured in the Coleman Collectors Guide 1903-1954
and mistakenly identified
as Coleman Model NL 323.
Some of the NL 323's were
converted to match lighting which makes the lantern resemble Model 408.
This lantern is in Yoshihiro
Sugimoto's collection.

The Economy Lamp Co. made
this earlier version of Model 408
between 1920 and 1924 according
to Neil McRae.
The burner on this one
is a much larger inverted "U" shape
and the generator has a
wire spiral designed to speed the match lighting process.
The door in the mica globe
slides up to light.
This lantern is in Tameo
Gomi's collection.
This Handy Lite lantern
was manufactured by Enterprise Tool & Metal Works, Chicago.
This lantern, in Fil Graff's
collection, has a reproduction mice globe
and is operating at only
45 cp in this image.
The lantern has a small
fount but is similar to two others
that we know of by this
manufacturer.
This lantern appeared in
a 1922 advertisement by this company.


The burner with the characteristic
horizontal air intake tubes
is similar to those made
by Thomas Mfg. Co.,
but a 1916 advertisement
for this lantern identifies it
as a product of the Foote
Mfg. Co., another Dayton, Ohio, firm.
This model draws air in
through the holes around the rim
and connects by inside
ports to the air intake tubes (right image).
The ventilator bolt is from a Foote Mfg. Co. lamp.

The Gloria Light Co. of
Chicago manufactured this Model 12 Oxo Gas lantern
which was probably made
prior to 1915.
This 400cp model was designed
to burn either kerosene or white gas (right image).
The bail on this lantern
is a replacement wire for the original.
A second lantern model
by the Gloria Light Co.,
this single burner has
a push-pull tip cleaner.
Neil McRae, whose collection
this is in, was able to get it running
even though the tip cleaner
is broken.
The image on the left shows
it running on gasoline
although it may be a kerosene
model.

A third lantern model by
the Gloria Light Co.,
this single burner lantern
is 15" high
and the turban fount base
is 7" in diameter!
This lantern was also sold
as Knight Light Company's Model 311.
Larry Dunbar has restored
this lantern
but it still needs a tip
cleaner wire (right image) at the top of this torch lighting model.
Another Gloria Light Co.
lantern,
this unknown model is a
two mantle version of the above.
The tip cleaner lever is
at the bottom of the generator,
rather than the top as
on the preceding,
and is not engaged in the
up position as seen here.
The mica globe was removed
for this image.
Also made by
the Gloria Light Company,
based
on the burners this is Model "R"
in Neil McRae's system
of designation of this company's prooducts.
This match lighting model
also appears in a copper finish
and was badged and sold
by the Knight Light Company
also of Chicago.
This Gloria
double-mantled, unlabeled lantern
Neil McRae, the owner of the lantern,
has designated this one as Model "J"
as explained above.
A unique feature is the
the pair of spring clips
that hold the ventilator
to the top of the frame.

This is a prototype for
the Model 500CK lantern model
that Levi Glick developed
in the summer, 2001 for his
H.C. Lanterns company in
Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania.
He uses Coleman founts
with his burner (right image)
in a kerosene version (left
image) and a naptha (white gas) version.
The ventilator is his design;
the lantern can be hung from a ceiling
with an optional lamp hanger
rod.

The Herz Manufacturing
Co., St Paul, Minnesota
made this 350 cp Marvel-Lite
lantern.
It has a built-in pump;
air enters the intake
via holes in the top of
the base tube under the globe cage base
This lantern lacks the
mica globe and one burner cap.
This torch lit lantern
is in Bob Frank's collection.

The stenciling on the fount
states: No 456,
Mfd. by Hydro Carbon Light
Co., Seattle (Washington).
The lantern resembles other
models
that were known to be marketed
for lighting poultry houses.
This lantern, in Michael Merz's collection,
may have been made by another
manufacturer.