Show A LAMP WICK MADE OF CLAY One That Does Not Need to Be Trimmed A remarkable lamp wick has been Invented In-vented which is made entirely of clay This sounds paradoxical for clay is not a substance that is very susceptible to heat yet there is no other material II the wick except clay and it burns in a brighter flame and gives a steadier light than any cotton wick This new wick is made of potters clay and is perforated by very minute holes up through which the oil passes by capillary capil-lary attraction In shape it is similar to the old cotton affairflat or cylindrical When in a plastic state filaments of unspun vegetable fibre are mixed into the clay and when this wick is burnt or fired it hardens while the vegetable vege-table matter Is consumed leaving numerous nu-merous small holes up through which the oil readily passes This wick does not need to be trimmed When made it Is filed off square at the top so as to cause it give a well formed flame As the oil has a perfect passage up to the flame it cannot emit an odor Its Inventors claim that its consumption of oil is but onethird that of the cotton wick while producing the same amount of light |