Lantern and Fixtures

Order of Lantern:

Shape of Lantern:

Diameter to glass:

Diameter in the clear:

Number of sides:

Type of bars:

Thickness of bars:

Height glazed:

Number of plates in height:

Number of plates each side:

Thickness of plates:

Size of plates:

Number of storm panes:

Unglazed side of lantern:

what bearings:

Construct Material Lantern:

Construct Material roof / cowl:

Ventilator / cowl:

Lightning spindle:

Desc of Lightning rod:

Balustrade:

Lantern doors:

Floor of lantern:

Watchroom doors:

Diameter parapet:

Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database

Forty Mile Point Light Station

Lantern and fixtures

4th

Polygonal.

7' 0.5"

Vertical.

2' 11.5"

1/4"

3' x 2'8.5"

None.

All glazed.

Parapet of cast ioron & lined with steel plates, upper part wrot iron.

8 sided cast iron pyramidal roof, lined with zinc inside. A tin cone lens protector is suspended from dome of roof by 4 small chains.

Cast iron.

Copper with platinum point.

A 1/8" x 2" copper strip is fastened to the gallery floor outside & runds down side of tower & into the ground below.

Balustrade of 3 rails 2"x1/2" iron bars. Gallery floor is of cast iorn & square in plan.

1 cast iron door leads from parapet to outside gallery.

Cast iron.

Cast iron trap door leads from watch room to lantern. Cast iron stair from watch room floor to lantern floor.

6' 5.5" pol.

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Premises | Lantern and Fixtures | Ventilators and Watchroom | Illuminating Apparatus | Closets and Storerooms

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